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What Year Is This Whaler
franknall	#1  Posted on 03/13/10 - 10:20 AM
Member Posts: 24 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/16/10	Hull Identification Number: BWCBU174A10 Thank you. Edited by Tom W Clark on 03/13/10 - 10:44 AM
modenacart	#2  Posted on 03/13/10 - 10:30 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 741 Comments: 4 Joined: 02/28/09	Check here http://www.whalercentral.com/articles...icle_id=61 They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. --Benjamin Franklin
Tom W Clark	#3  Posted on 03/13/10 - 10:49 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 4280 Comments: 7 Joined: 09/30/05	The HIN provided does not comport with any known coding. Are you sue you are reading it correctly? For starters, HINs are twelve digits long. You only have eleven.
DWinter	#4  Posted on 03/13/10 - 1:06 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 252 Comments: 0 Joined: 01/02/10	Yes, by the position of the A, you're missing the last digit. There should be 3 numbers after the letter. Duane G Winter 1984 BW Sport 15 Center Console
Joe Kriz	#5  Posted on 03/13/10 - 1:49 PM
Site Owner Personal Page Personal Album Photo Albums Project Albums Posts: 11447 Comments: 452 Joined: 03/18/05	If this number is correct but just missing the last digit, then here is my guess. The A1 would mean it was manufactured in January of 2001 as a 2001 model. Then the number would look like this: BWCBU174A101 Check to see if the missing digit is the number 1 ...