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Re: hull i.d. info
Posted By: Vic Roy In Response To: Re: hull i.d. info (Rit)
Date: Wednesday, 6 April 2005, at 7:57 p.m.
Well, Tommy Drake is the expert on the hull #'s so I'll just pass on some of what he has shared with us here. There is no hull # 1. They started with hull #101. When we started our law firm in 1970, our first client was file # 901, do you want to be client #1?, a/k/a the guina pig to see if these guys know some law? No, so 101 was Bertram's way of taking the edge off the first guy that bought one of these boats. So subtract that from your hull # and that's you. The uniform federal hull numbering went into effect in Nov. 1972, where the # had to be impressed in the exterior of the stb. upper transom, so anything before that was using the factory # system. Tommy got it straight from the horse's mouth, Lee Dana, the long time cheif engineer at Bertram. The number you posted does not comport with the old factory pre-1972 system, but we have learned long ago the system was not that uniform. The post-11-72 system used a code, BER for the company, then 31 and the next digit denoted the model 1 thru 5, with the FBC as I remember being a 3, the Bahia being a 4, or I could have that all screwed up, that you get the drift.
All of our boats are semi-custom built by true craftsmen, mostly newly imigrated Cubans that fled Castro. If something did not fit, they grabbed another molded part and cut it to fit.
Thus, there is no such thing as a 'stock' B31. They are all different in some way, but still remain The Best Boat Ever Built.
UV
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