Hello Phillip. If I recall correctly, Jerry's boat number scheme goes like this: MMP is Montgomery Marine Products (So it's not MMPI- the I is a 1), 17 refers to boat length, 442 is the production number, and H is the month the boat was produced (H = August). The next letter/number 0 doesn't fit for me, but the last two numbers are the production year, 1991. Usually I thought Jerry simply repeated the last number of the production year in front of the year, thus your number would have read: 191, but maybe I have that wrong. Someone will correct me if I'm off track here... t On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:32 PM, <seable@lava.net> wrote:
Howzit?
MMPI 7422HO91 is my new love; but she’s been more neglected than abused.
Not quite a “barn find” she sat in the weeds for a good 6 years, long enough under a mango tree to start a couple of mango trees in the cockpit, rooting under the teak grate! Might she be that notorious vessel who sailed here from there? I haven’t yet heard from another, at least not from Craigslist queries.
I acquired her on a “new” trailer but have paper to trace her back to first sale & shipping from a dealer in Sacramento, CA to Honolulu, HI in ‘92.
May I ask: (as a professional boatbuilder)
Is there more to be gleaned from her tattoo beyond her age?
She’s pretty much undamaged forward of the 3-pintle rudder. Given the inevitability of C/B bumpers in our neighborhood, I’m prompted to modify the mahogany rudder remnant.
Might even be a prize for the best “kick-up” suggestion!
Mahalo Plenty, AloooHa,
Philipp @ SE’ABLE