RE: [omc-boats] What boat am I looking at?

I found out the motor is a 190 h.p. 1976 model. I'm thinking the hull might
be a Renken, but unable to confirm just yet.

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-omc-boats@... [mailto:owner-omc-boats@...] On
Behalf Of Phil Budne
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 6:23 PM
To: omc-boats@...
Subject: Re: [omc-boats] What boat am I looking at?

> Is there a list somewhere where I can look these numbers up?

Just googling with a part number is often useful!

> The OMC motor had the following numbers: Model: 990231M

Googling 990231M found:

<a
href="http://www.marineengine.com/manuals/omc_sterndrive/order_pre-1980.html
">OMC sterndrive service and parts manuals</a>

Which describes it as a 1976 OMC 190HP sterndrive engine.

> Serial: W523681
>
> Stern drive had these numbers, Model: 981061, Ser. W100574
>
> Hull: RENA Z8O1M77A-V1801

This looks like it might be a modern HID (Hull Identifer), which would
tell you who made it. I could SWEAR I found (and posted?) some URL's
for good sites explaining HID's to the list recently, but I can't find
the message just now!

Ray tried posting a photo of the boat to the list, but the message was
larger than the list allows, so I've put the photo at:

http://www.ultimate.com/omc-boats/gallery/garcia/boat.jpg
Received on Tuesday, 3 August 2004