On 2/3/05, bestweb3d wrote:
The difference between the 1976 N.American and Mako has been determined
to the satifaction of the law,
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The law thinks all the unrelated events are some kind of conspiricy.

Sounds like a typical bureaucratic snafu. He'll eventually get it
sorted out if he has the patience and perseverance to hang in there,
push the right buttons and pull the right strings.

I bought an old 16' skiff and replaced the rotten transom. Saved the
skin though, cut out the original Hull ID and epoxied it onto the new
transom. I've wondered what sort of future probs I was creating by
doing that but what the hey, I couldn't live with the transom the way
it was.
I wish I had taken before and after pics of the boat, the transom, and
Hull ID but didn't think of that until afterwards.
Not sure anything he does now will help much, depending on which
bureaucrat you find yourself having to deal with.

Another set of numbers elsewhere in the boat would settle the issue.

As far as an alternate Hull ID location, I can't think of anyplace in
a boat that might not eventually be replaced. And it sounds like, in
this case, even that might not be enough to prove "non-conspiracy" to
the satisfaction of an unsympathetic government bureaucrat.
Good luck with that.

I agree with the other poster that it doesn't make sense. But in a
govt run bureaucracy, things often don't.

Rick