Does anybody know?

Advice
#1

If there is any industry standard for determining the year of manufacture of a kayak by refering to the serial number? I have heard of some relationship to the last numbers in the sequence.

Thanks, Ken…

#2

Our Brit boats
On all of our British sea kayaks (Valley, NDK, and P&H) the last two digits are the year of manufacture.



I’ll look at our Elaho tonight to see if Necky does the same.

#3

I doubt it.
The Makkovic is 3 and the Orion is 11. No room for a year there. I should check the NDK , It has a longet #

#4

See figure #2
http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.html

#5

Call The Company
I would call various companies to ask that question.



I recently called a dog food company to decipher their code on the bottom of their canned food so I would arrange my dog’s food in order of the expiration dates.



-Capri

#6

On all fourteen of our boats.

– Last Updated: Aug-20-08 6:59 PM EST –

the last two numbers in the serial number stand for the year.
The boats represent six different manufacturers.

cheers,
JackL

#7

Any boat no matter where it came from
that is in the U.S. must have a Coastguard HIN no. Last two (after 1984) or last four (pre 1984) will always show the year.



http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.htm



http://www.nordicaboats.com/html/hin-numbers.html



First letters are the MIC Manufacturers Identification Code. Downloadable database on this page. http://www.uscgboating.org/recalls/mic_database.htm

#8

Very Timely
I am researching a boat I bought used and the serial numbers links above came in very handy. Thanks!