Okay; I did search the archives and do not have an answer to this question, so I'm reopening this bag of worms. Can we H25 owners compare HINs?
My boat has a number format which I believe to be unique. I have deciphered most of it: HUN25027M74H-G.
Here's what I know. At the time this boat was built, Hunter ran five production lines at Marlboro, NJ, two of which were Hunter 25s. By the 1974 model year, one line was of the trunk-cabin model and one was of the 'blister-canopy'/'flush-deck' model. Currently, right next to my boat sits one of her March 1974 sisters, a trunk-cabin model. This boat's number is HUN25140M74H. Though Hunter did make a whopping 500 H25 hulls per year, they did not make 113 in one month-- so clearly the '027' and '140' are not sequential numbers in the same series. I have concluded these represent the two model lines-- '0' being the original, 'flush-deck' model and '1' being the trunk-cabin model. So my boat was #27 of the flush-deckers and the boat beside her is #40 of the trunk-cabin models, in the same production series.
What defined that production series is anyone's guess (especially, sadly, now that Warren Luhrs is gone). At first I thought my boat was H25 #27; but that would make no sense given the impressive production schedule. H25 #27 probably occurred sometime in November 1972. The series was probably (but not guaranteed to have been) the month, in this case 'H' (March). The 'M' indicates that the HINs follow the model-year format (based on that of carmakers, which Don Launer fails to surmise in his otherwise good article in Good Old Boat).
My question, for all you Cherubini Hunter owners out there, is this: does anyone else have two letters, hyphenated, at the end of the HIN code? So far I have not seen this on any other boat. My boat had no special factory features and was not modified from some other model. My first suspicion was that it was in the 'glass shop between 28 February and 1 March and that someone, knowing this, attributed a hyphenated HIN to the boat built at the cusp of the month. (Typically this number is-- still-- applied by makers in via a Dyno label-gun tape, stuck into the mold backwards with hot glue before the gelcoat is sprayed.) It could have been an error by the factory as well, as several other odd HIN formats may suggest.
If anyone has a definitive solution to nonstandard, especially hyphenated, HIN codes I'll be glad to hear of it!
Thanks.
BTW-- because of this belief, I celebrate Diana's birthday on 29 February. She just turned 40. We're planning a quiet evening in, this week.
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My boat has a number format which I believe to be unique. I have deciphered most of it: HUN25027M74H-G.
Here's what I know. At the time this boat was built, Hunter ran five production lines at Marlboro, NJ, two of which were Hunter 25s. By the 1974 model year, one line was of the trunk-cabin model and one was of the 'blister-canopy'/'flush-deck' model. Currently, right next to my boat sits one of her March 1974 sisters, a trunk-cabin model. This boat's number is HUN25140M74H. Though Hunter did make a whopping 500 H25 hulls per year, they did not make 113 in one month-- so clearly the '027' and '140' are not sequential numbers in the same series. I have concluded these represent the two model lines-- '0' being the original, 'flush-deck' model and '1' being the trunk-cabin model. So my boat was #27 of the flush-deckers and the boat beside her is #40 of the trunk-cabin models, in the same production series.
What defined that production series is anyone's guess (especially, sadly, now that Warren Luhrs is gone). At first I thought my boat was H25 #27; but that would make no sense given the impressive production schedule. H25 #27 probably occurred sometime in November 1972. The series was probably (but not guaranteed to have been) the month, in this case 'H' (March). The 'M' indicates that the HINs follow the model-year format (based on that of carmakers, which Don Launer fails to surmise in his otherwise good article in Good Old Boat).
My question, for all you Cherubini Hunter owners out there, is this: does anyone else have two letters, hyphenated, at the end of the HIN code? So far I have not seen this on any other boat. My boat had no special factory features and was not modified from some other model. My first suspicion was that it was in the 'glass shop between 28 February and 1 March and that someone, knowing this, attributed a hyphenated HIN to the boat built at the cusp of the month. (Typically this number is-- still-- applied by makers in via a Dyno label-gun tape, stuck into the mold backwards with hot glue before the gelcoat is sprayed.) It could have been an error by the factory as well, as several other odd HIN formats may suggest.
If anyone has a definitive solution to nonstandard, especially hyphenated, HIN codes I'll be glad to hear of it!
Thanks.
BTW-- because of this belief, I celebrate Diana's birthday on 29 February. She just turned 40. We're planning a quiet evening in, this week.
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