The HIN on the early glass GBs is stamped into the transom on the lower starboard corner just under the swim step.
Ditto for my 1975 CHB 34.The HIN on the early glass GBs is stamped into the transom on the lower starboard corner just under the swim step. This makes it almost impossible to read unless the boat is out of the water.
Isn't that where they are required to be by law?The HIN on the early glass GBs is stamped into the transom on the lower starboard corner ..............
Isn't that where they are required to be by law?
That's where it's been on every boat I've owned.
No. Every powerboat on which I've observed the HIN which been manufactured since the mid-1980s, including our 1987 17' Arima to all the GBs in the Bellingham charter fleet from 32 to 52 feet, have their HIN engraved in the upper right (starboard) corner of the transom per Ray's earlier post. The only fiberglass boats I'm aware of including ours that have the HIN low in the starboard aft corner of the transom have been very old--- 1970s vintage.
What's a HIN ? and how to interpret it.
It's a number put on the boat that's unique to that boat. It is to a boat what a VIN number is to a car or truck. If you own a boat, you would have to have submitted it's HIN to the authority that documented or registered your boat.
I can't tell you how to interpret it. I know it has a manufacturer;s code and I believe it has a date or at least month and year of manufacture.
I'm sure someone else knows the rest of it or you could look it up on the Internet.
Did you even click on the link, Ron? Try again.. What's a HIN ?
That is the transom on the starboard side, right?