SSR help

[masharry]

We are planning to get part 3 SSR but it asks for the hull identification number. Can anyone help, where or how do we find that out?

Seal 28 built 1979.

Thanks

 

[phantomlady]

We couldn't find our HIN when we were SSR registering so we just left that bit blank. No problem.

 

[Bru]

+1

Puzzled me for a bit until I realised it's an optional field

 

[Poignard]

On my boat the hull number, i.e. the serial number given it by Tylers, who moulded it, is on a label fixed inside the transom. You have to peer inside the stern locker with a torch to see it.

 

[pvb]

"Proper" HINs weren't introduced until 1998 in the UK, so older boats won't necessarily have a number.

 

[Hoolie]

Our 1989 boat has the HIN moulded into the gelcoat on the starboard quarter of the transom. It's back to front as in a mirror, but you don't need to be a Leonardo da Vinci to decode it!

 

[Vaila1]

Hi M

I looked for all the years I had her and couldnt find either a hin or even a Seal sail number. Try the Seal Sailing Association website maybe?

Andy

 

[snowleopard]

I don't have a number on my home-built boat. No problem.

 

[pcatterall]

My application disapeared for 3 weeks then I got a letter asking for the HIN or for a statement that the boat was built pre 95. I thought I had put the build year on the apllication ( 1975) but have responded and await a reply.
So I would put 'pre 95' on anyway ( if it is of course!!) just to save more paperwork.

 

[Bru]

I did ours online in about five minutes flat and got the sustificate in the post three days later

Left the HIN number field blank (after reading the guidance notes and realising it was an optional field) but did give the year of manufacture (1969)

 

[masharry]

Thanks

Thank you all, will forget trying to find it and leave blank as suggested.