by GreenLake » Sun Mar 20, 2022 12:21 am
Before the advent of HINs a year or two after your boats, the dating of DS's can be variable. One source of uncertainty is that vessel licensing may simply have defaulted pre-HIN boats to 1970 or 1971 depending on the state. My '63 is registered as a '71 for that reason (it very clearly is not a '71 based on some of the design details and the sail number).
Also, not all sail numbers were awarded in sequence (that's been discussed here quite a few years ago, so happy spelunking among the older posts in the forum).
Now, with the HIN, all that stopped. (I guess, as long as the HINs were properly awarded based on build order, who knows what these boat builder people do ...)
Enjoy your boat.
~ green ~ lake ~ ~