Hull Identification Numbers
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The National Association of State Boating Law Administrators Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes Total session time: 30 minutes I) Introduction Slide 1 (Title Slide) 1) Instructor’s background 2) Make up of classroom participants Officers vs. non-officers. Ask how many years officers have done watercraft enforcement Transition II) What is a Hull Identification Number Slide 2 1) 12 character identifier (1) Equate to a vehicle 2) Required by USCG after identification Number. st November 1 1972 (2) Prior to Nov. 1st 1972 3) Required Secondary/hidden HIN serial numbers of varying required after 1984 lengths of characters may 4) Three HIN formats: be found on watercraft a) Straight Year (3) Only available to Law b) Model Year Enforcement c) New/Current Format Transition Slide 3 MIC is first three III) What can a HIN tell you? characters and is assigned 1) Manufacturer Identification Code by US Coast Guard 2) Production or Serial Number (b) Serial Number (SN) is 3) Month of Production characters 4-8 4) Year of Production (b) SN is English 5) Model Year alphabet letters or Arabic numerals (b) SN can not contain letters I, O, and Q Transition Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes IV) Display of HIN Slide 4 1) Starboard outboard side of transom a) within 2 in. of top of transom, (2) addresses locations of gunwale, or hull/deck joint HINs on PWC’s 2) W/C without a transom What is aft? Toward the starboard outboard side of hull stern/back of the a) within one foot of stern watercraft b) within 2 in. of top of the hull (3) why? because they side, gunwale, or hull/deck often have readily joint whichever is lowest replaceable hulls 3) Catamarans and pontoon boats Remember these are the a) to the aft crossbeam within one locations required by foot of starboard hull attachment USCG, manufacturer may still place elsewhere Transition 4) HIN must be permanently affixed Slide 5 a) carved, burned, stamped, Permanently affixed to a embossed, molded, bonded part of the W/C that is not 5) Attached so alteration, removal, or removable replacement would be obvious Does not have to be 6) Characters can be no less than affixed directly on hull, one-fourth an inch high can be affixed to a plate 7) Secondary/hidden HIN must be that is permanently affixed affixed in an unexposed location no screws, rivets ok on the interior of the watercraft (7) Ask what year did the hidden HIN become Transition required? August 1st 1984 V) HIN Formats Slide 6 1) Straight Year Format (b) Unique to that specific a) Manufacturers Identification watercraft Code (b) Ask what letters can b) Production or Serial Number not be in SN c) Month of Production I, O, and Q d) Year Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes Transition Picture of Straight Year Format Slide 7 Go through segments of straight year format Transition 2) Model Year Format Slide 8 a) Manufacturers Identification Code e) August is “A” and it b) Production or Serial Number follows in order after that c) “M” designates model year “B” for September, “C” format for October, etc. d) Model Year e) Month of Production Transition Picture of Model Year Format Slide 9 Go through segments of model year format Transition Slide 10 3) New/Current Format (c) Note that the key to a) Manufacturers Identification month of production has Code changed from the Model b) Production or Serial Number Year Format c) Month of Production (c) “A” is January and it d) Year of Production follows in order after that e) Model Year “B” is February, “C” is for March, etc. Transition Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes Picture of New/Current Format Slide 11 Go through segments of new/current format Transition VI) State Issued HIN Slide 12 1) Are identified by assigned state MIC Note that the registration a) first two characters are the states’ prefix for a state is not prefix for its state registration always the same as its b) third character is a “Z” common abbreviation California is not CA but CF, Michigan is not MI but MC Transition Slide 13 Picture of State Issued HIN Ask students when they may see a state issued HIN for a homemade watercraft, to correct a manufacture’s error, watercraft made before November 1st 1972 Most states use the new/current HIN format Transition even for watercraft made before August 1st 1984 Slide 14 VII) HIN Resources Can search by either: 1) United States Coast Guard MIC, Company name, city MIC Database of manufacturer, state of manufacturer Transition Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes a) MIC Database Search results Slide 15 Search results, can have multiple MIC’s listed depending on how you searched Transition b) Details for a specific MIC Slide 16 - Parent Company Comments section will - Type of watercraft produced give miscellaneous - Comments information including - Status: in or out of business history of MIC if - Contact information previously owned by a different company If in business, LE can get Hidden HIN location from Transition manufacturer best way 2) United States Documented Vessels Slide 17 Can get HIN if you know Vessel’s Name or Official Number or vice versa Transition Slide 18 3) National Association of State Can provide contact Boating Law Administrators information for a watercraft identification specialist Transition 4) International Association of Slide 19 Marine Investigators Membership for law a) Provides marine investigative enforcement and non-law training that includes HINs enforcement marine professionals Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes Transition 5) National Insurance Crime Bureau Slide 20 and ISO Claim Search NICB collected a) growing list of confidential information, ISO HIN locations maintains database Transition Slide 21 5) Other Agencies that Enforce or Registration is typically Register Watercraft done by the state’s Wildlife Enforcement Agency, but can also be Dept. of Motor Vehicles, Transition Dept. of Revenue, Tax Commissions, etc. VIII) HIN Photographs Slides 22 - 34 1) Conforming HINs Slide 23 Ask what format Model Year Slide 26 If there is anything else on Pictures of HINs the plate with the HIN, there should be a line to separate as shown Why do HIN characters look “different” from each other? Plates pre-made, rest of characters put on after W/C is finished being built Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes Pictures of HINs Slide 27 No line separating HIN and manufacturer, again, should be there but will commonly see Slide 28 Engraved by manufacturer Slide 29 May see Barcode with HIN on it as well Slide 31 Notice location on Pontoon boat Slide 32 and Slide 33 Laser dot put on by Bombardier 2) Non conforming HINs Slide 35 Mistake by manufacturer, Kawasaki did have this HIN on file Slide 36 Ask what’s wrong Pictures of Non conforming HINs HIN put on backwards Slide 37 Where should this HIN be? Starboard outboard side of transom within 2 in. of top of transom Hull Identification Number Training Icons Lesson Plan Instructor Notes Pictures of Non conforming HINs Slide 38 Notice lines or cracks in HIN plate some plates are designed to make clean breaks when tampered with or trying to remove theft? Slide 39 Although a sticker…was inspected and approved as permanent by USCG not common Slide 40 Ask whats wrong? Lots plate on plate, short a character on top plate, other numbers on bottom plate Neither plate original, another pair of rivet holes discovered when bottom plate removed IX) The end Slide 41 Take questions Hand out course/instructor evaluator forms if required .