Re: What sequence does N700 stamped on transom knee mean on 1956 Alumacraft Deep C ?
if Alumacraft doesn't know, I wouldn't have any idea how to figure it out. They are 1 of the few, maybe the only currently still in business that can quickly & easily ID their vintage boats and WILL do it.
Since many of their boat models were made for decades, I would guess that your Deep C could be the 7th (1956 sounds line an early year of production), the 70th (since I'd guess they didn't build 10s of 1000s per year) or the 700th (if it was a popular model).
And is it the # of production for the model series, or the model year. They may have just continued the series of #s for Deep Cs from the start of production until they quit building them, regardless of year.
The N portion may in fact designate 1956 Deep C or be a coded portion of the serial #.
My fireflights serial # starts w M160. The M designates the month it was built, the 1 is a placeholder, and the 60 is the year of production. The rest is the order# in the 1960 series of fireflights. 1960 fireflight built in December or something, I can't recall exactly.
My duracrafts ser# is its # in order of production of all models they produced, as they all came off the same line. Next boat got the next #, no matter what model. Makes it even more complicated.
