Andy Benore ⁽²⁾

A Hull Identification Number (HIN) can tell you a lot about your boat—but first you must learn how to find, read, and decode the HIN's 12-character message. By doing this, you will discover the exact brand, model, date of manufacture, and model year of your boat.

If you want to learn how to avoid a boat accident and injuries on the water, dive into cases from the past where things went wrong. We have decades of data to learn from. These stats tell us: How do we know this? For 66…