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Is there any way to find out how many Katama's were made in a certain year ?

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Thanks Phil :)

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I once emailed Chuck at whaler with the same question but for the Outrage 22. He told me there was no way to know.

I know they have logs, but it is probably tedious to go through and count. The pictures of Chuck with the logs show them as notebooks. The data is not in a database so it's not easy to query.

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Hey thanks Mike !
It would be great to know just how many of our favorite boats are really out there ;)

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I wrote an email to Chuck Bennett last month (cbennett at whaler.com) in which I asked him about my 1970 Boston Whaler Menemsha 16, Stencil 3A2043. I asked him specifically how many Menemsha models were manufactured. He responded in the same day; there were 219 Menemsha models manufactured from 1967-1971 and a 35 boat run in 1974. I recommend you send an email to Chuck and ask him for data about the Katama model. I have owned two Katama models in the past. Backriverexpress, what are you planning for the third empty bay in your barn?

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Unfortunately, it's probably not possible to know without confirmation from the manufacturer. Even with a good HIN database, the hull numbers are rarely sequential so there can be large gaps. For instance, some manufacturers will designate a certain number range for a given month or year of production, and then skip to the next sequence at the end of that month or year regardless of how many hulls were produced.

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The third bay belongs to the "Boss" ;)

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Maybe since there are so few he counted for you. I asked him about Outrage 22 hulls of which I think at most there can be about 250ish per year since they only had one mold (or so I was told). I heard the 17 Montauk had 2 molds.