Additional 3 digit # on rear decks???

Hi, the serial # on my H16 is: (located on each transom)
CCMB3859D787 which means my boat is a 1987 model built in April 1987.

But!! I also have a 3 digit number scribed on each deck. These are in the rear, between the rudder pin hole in deck and the begining of the nonskid surface. Small one inch slick deck area.

Left hull # is 633 and Right hull # is 627

They were scribed/etched with the same technique as the serials in the transoms..

What do these numbers mean???

Thanks!

could those be hull weights? i dont know how much 16 hulls weigh. and it could more realistically be 63.3 and 62.7

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Peter Scranton
'14 Tandem Island "Awesome"
'03 Windrider Rave "Menage a Trois"

Could be.....
But that only sums up to 120+/- pounds and a H16 weight should be around 320#. Will the rest of the rigging add the weight needed to reach the standard H16 weight?

Anyone?

Extra three digits?

Likely a production control item. Hulls use to be molded at a facility in San Juan Capistrano and trucked to the factory in Oceanside. Where they were assembled and packaged. If the digits are "Outies" rather than concave...it is probably something to do with mold numbers.

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Matt Miller
Former - Director of Parts and Accessory Sales
Warranty and Technical Support
Hobie Cat USA
(Retired 11/7/2022)

These are engraved just as the hull numbers in the transom, same tool which produces a crude scratched concave # instead of a raised molded print.

I just checked again and I dont see any dot (.) showing that they could be 63.3 and 62.7. They are clear to be 633 and 627.

Does the "B" in the serial have anything to do with this?
Being that if its not an "L" more than 9,999 were boats produced.

CCMB3859D787

thanks!

I have what I thought was a 1990 Hobie 16. I started looking at it closer and the last number may be a D intead of a 0 making it a 1979 instead of a 1990. Do the Hobie Hull numbers end in letters or numerals?

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Brooks

The last two digits (numbers) of the null numbers should be the model year I believe. Yours should end in "90" if it's a 1990.