Listers-
When I was buying my 30 MK I (HIN 30007972) four years ago, I came to the
conclusion she was hull number 7 laid up in September 1972, I think based on
this old post:
http://cnc-list.com/pipermail/cnc-list_cnc-list.com/2012-April/044412.html
<http://cnc-list.com/pipermail/cnc-list_cnc-list.com/2012-April/044412.html>.
Meanwhile a discussion arose recently in the Facebook C&C Owners Group where a
guy asked how to decode HIN 30002672. I emailed Rob Ball hoping for
clarification, and Rob referred me to Rob MacLachlan of South Shore Yachts.
Rob MacLachlan said definitively I have hull #79, not hull #7. So the HIN
format C&C used before standardization on November 1st 1972 apparently didn’t
include any digits indicating the month in which the hull was laid up.
I’ll be damned, I said. All this time I thought I had hull #7.
Rick Bushie on this list owns 30 MK I hull #1, and his HIN plate says simply
“30-1 1971N”.
Brian Buttigieg in the Facebook group owns 30 MK I hull #5, he says, but hasn’t
posted his HIN yet.
Jack Rousseau in the Facebook group owned 30 MK I hull #8 and said it was made
in 1971.
Sean Dillon in the Facebook group owns 30 MK I hull #14 and says it’s a 1971
boat.
Ed Levert on this list owned hull #19 and thought it was a 1971 boat.
The owners of HINs 30002672, 30005972, and 30009472 have also been heard from
here or in the Facebook group.
Steve Guiney in the Facebook group owns hull #123 and his HIN is CCY301231172
(CCY was later used by the Rhode Island factory but it didn’t open until
February 1976)
It seems clear that C&C changed 30 MK I HIN formats at least twice over the
production run. And I shall change my email signature according to what I’ve
learnt.
Cheers,
Randy Stafford
S/V Grenadine
C&C 30 MK I #79
Ken Caryl, CO
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