Re: [Cal_Boats] CAL 20

That would be a Massachusetts, State-Issued HIN. Basically this boat was assigned a HIN by the state in August, 1998. Since your "new" CAL 20 was built long before the USCG required HIN, Jensen Marine only gave the boat a hull #, however since 1989 all boats 14' and over in Massachusetts (and many other states) have had to be assigned a HIN before being sold. All boats requiring Titles were issued Titles (and if no manufacturer-issued HIN, a state-issued one) starting in 1989. We had to get one in 1992 for our old CAL 21. To breakdown the HIN on your boat: MSZ = Issued by Massachusetts (New York would be NYZ, California = CAZ, Rhode Island = RIZ, Florida = FLZ, etc) 00048 = the 48th boat issued a MSZ # in 1998? J= ? 898 = August 1998? I'll see if I can find what the MSZ hin was for our boat, maybe I can get a clue from that. Rod Johnson, "SUNBIRD" 1979 O'DAY DS II #10201 former co-owner of "NODROG" 1970 CAL 21 #285 On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:38:31 -0400 Chris h <ch… [at] magma.ca> writes: Greets: Anyone care to take a stab at this hull NO. to decipher it. Received the docs to day from MMA and the number on title looks rather strange. Year: 1968 HIN: MSZ00048J898 I'm thinking the 98 at the end should actually be 68 no? -- /ch Digital Photography - Click Now. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTDvmSB8ytnL7fPKsoo8w30v0VRnRMkqgo3yfjvg7QH7QkxdrKUY60/

<Let kids develop their own interests, but expose them to ones that you think are valuable so they can at least know about them.> This is so true! I just finished the book "Saving Sailing" and in a nutshell one of the reasons that the number of people sailing has declined is that parents are not taking the kids sailing as a family activity. Instead they are dropping them off at sailing school just as they would soccer or baseball and it becomes just another way to spend time. Once kids graduate college, they rarely get back into sailing. Sailing needs mentors so even if your kids are grown and gone, recruit some kids to crew with you on a race and get them into it. They suggest that if your kid is in sailing school, is that you take your kid and their friends sailing together and even better if you let them crew on a race. Make it fun and give them responsibility, not just a ride on a slow boat which even to me can be boring. I grew up in West Texas and didn't set foot on a sailboat until I was in my mid 20's. My dad however exposed me to lots of things that I hope to expose my son too. Ironically, in the summer we went water skiing every Wed evening at a lake 50 miles away and now I go sailing every Wed on a river 30 miles away. My job was to prep the boat so that all my dad had to do was change clothes and we'd take off. We would also go bird hunting, fly fishing, snow skiing and camping (we did a 30 mile hike thru Glacier Park into Canada and also took our little 15..5 foot boat to Lake Powell in Utah and Arizona and camped out of it for 10 days) so if you know West Texas, we spent a lot of time on the road ;-). I don't hunt anymore, not that I don't like it, just not as rewarding as sailing. I don't fly fish anymore as I don't have anyone to do it with. I don't camp much anymore as I associate camping with the mountains in Colorado and just haven't had the desire to camp anywhere around here on the east coast and the same with snow skiing. Right now, my life revolves around sailing and I want my son to like it as much as I do but I do want to make sure I expose him to everything I can. Paul

pw… [at] aol.com wrote: > > > > <Let kids develop their own interests, but expose them to ones that > you think are valuable so they can at least know about them.> > > > This is so true! I just finished the book "Saving Sailing" and in a > nutshell one of the reasons that the number of people sailing has > declined is that parents are not taking the kids sailing as a family > activity. Instead they are dropping them off at sailing school just > as they would soccer or baseball and it becomes just another way to > spend time. Once kids graduate college, they rarely get back into > sailing. Sailing needs mentors so even if your kids are grown and > gone, recruit some kids to crew with you on a race and get them into it. I can recall that when I was a kid, maybe pre-high school, I liked hanging around non-parent adults like relatives, parents' friends, teachers, people like that. Somehow they were all more interesting than parents. Maybe the lesson is that we need to consider involving that kid who lives next door, or who hangs around sometime. Chris Campbell