Daysailernoob wrote:I got the dmv paperwork search back and the boat is really dated to 1964. Pretty interesting
I would confidently state that the DMV database is almost definitely in error, or the search unearthed a different boat than the one you have.
In August 1963 O'Day celebrated the 1500th Daysailer. So there's no way the class number can have been in the 6000s in 1964. Also, the first year a DSII was built, was in 1971. Those two factors alone make a 1964 date a practical impossibility.
How can DMV records be in error, you ask. Easily.
I have dated my own boat to 1963, yet the DMV database entry for mine says 1971. (My boat has design features that are common to boats built before that date, which made it more than probable that the "hull number" in the DMV database was in fact the class number in my case, which dates the boat to 1963). For those reasons, I would be very careful in taking DMV records prior to the adoption of the HIN at face value.
Because "hull" numbers weren't unique (they apparently were relative to all the hulls built at a specific facility, not the model of the boat), it is entirely likely that your search unearthed some other boat from some other O'Day facility that happens to have the same "hull" number - or, possibly, a boat for which the "class" number was put into the registration as "hull" number. As you can see, the system was pretty messed up -- no wonder the HIN had to be invented.
(Why did my boat say "1971"? One will never know, but I suspect that 1972 being the introduction of the HIN, the setting 1971 was a default they used for boats for which the plaque didn't carry any reliable date information. In other words, it might have been a shorthand for "1971 or older". Now each state handled this differently, of course, and also, don't forget, those years were probably the time around which some of these databases were put on computer for the first time....with all that implies.)