My 37's sail only had seahorse logo and model number FWIW. I have #143 that left the factory in September, '12; 51 boats in a year and a half seems like a pretty good run.
CCHer your correct. I went back to the source. (My Dealer) to get the correct scoop. Let me qualify his answer by saying that besides a broker He is an avid sailor and racer owning his own racing boat and is the only blind Captain to ever win a National Racing Competition.
Quote: The hull number of the boat, called by some the vin number, is the number registered with the coast guard. The number is 14 digits. This number tells the manufacture, the month and year the keel was laid and a manufactures number. Most manufactures use , as a part of the number, The number of the hull in the series. The last number in the id number is the model year. This will change each July or August. So this August the number will change to 15. For small racing boats or other class boats the hull number as the number of the boat in it. So in your case if you were to race your sail number would be 194. That is for class boats. If you had a one off boat you would apply to the racing association and would be given a sail number. Most people do not think of a production boat as a one design, but it is. So the production number of the boat would be used. Each class boat has a class insignia on the top of the sail, with the sail number under it. Beneteau has the sea horse with a B ? under it. Sometimes the sail number is on the sail, but not always.
Looking at the insignia on the sail you know the class and the hull number. Thus you can see about when the boat might have been built.
My race boat is 1256, They built 1856 of them so you can see where in the production it may have fallen. When they started the new company and thus the production again they started with the number 2000. So you know any 2000 number was produced by the new company.
So that's it in a nutshell boys and girls. You are now in the know. How you enjoying your 37 CCHer?