How do you read a Mad River serial #?

Advice
#1

Here’s a serial number I’d like to find out more about mad15123h001 its on a Kevlar Explorer but we don’t know what year or layup.

Thanks

Andy Lee

#2

2001
be de year, me’thinks.



FE

#3

Hull Identification Number
By my reckoning



MAD = the Manufacturers Identity

15123 = the Serial Number

H = the month of August

and as Elmo said;

001 is the year 2001

Ric

#4

How to read a HIN
This Web site illustrates how to read a hull identification number (HIN):



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



You can use this Web site to look up your HIN:



http://www.boatfax.com/

#5

ah so, thanks
pretty simple once you have the code, eh? Thanks

#6

Mostly Right
but the first 0 is the manufacture year and the 01 is the model year. So in this case the canoe was manufactured in August of 2000 and is a 2001 model.