Got Some ???

[helmswatch]

We've been loving out lil tug and she sure does draw people's attention. Chalupa has become the Princess of South Creek here in Aurora, NC!

We do have a couple of questions though.

1. Where do you find the Hull #? (Not the HIN)
2. Are there limber holes to drain the "shallow blige" in the pilothouse aft?
3. Was the original raw water strainer a small plastic one. (plan on installing a bigger brass one,)
4. Any suggestions as to how to strengthen mast and boom to facilitate small shrimpnet. (Wife wants to know, she
loves shrimp and I'm poor!)
5. Does the lust to get a bigger Ranger Tug ever subside?

Duke & Irene

 

[rt11002003]

I may be able to help with questions 1 and 5.

#1 The hull number is part of the tug's serial number located on the starboard side of transom. My serial number is US-FMLT2127J809. The hull number is 27. I guess the T21 means tug 21. FML is Fluid Motions......

#5 For most of us, NO. I really like the R-21, but lust for the R-29, might settle for the R-25.

Gene

 

[captain's cat]

Take a look at this.
http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _photo.php

Charlie

 

[Rick & Karen]

I may be able to help with questions 1 and 5.

#1 The hull number is part of the tug's serial number located on the starboard side of transom. My serial number is US-FMLT2127J809. The hull number is 27. I guess the T21 means tug 21. FML is Fluid Motions......

#5 For most of us, NO. I really like the R-21, but lust for the R-29, might settle for the R-25.

Gene

Hi Gene,

I copied the following hull number info from a post made by Island Ranger on the C-Brats site, I found it very helpful in deciphering my hull number:

Don't know if the Ranger 21 follows the same code as the R25 but it should. Mine reads: FMLT2523B707
Translated, if I remember correctly, that means
FMLT - Built by Fluid Motion
25 - length overall
23 - serial number
B - month built (Feb)
7 - year built (2007)
07 - Model year (2007)

Based on your HIN, your boat was built in October 2008 and is considered a 2009 model. Unlike the auto makers, boat builders typically use the summer for model year changeovers. The only thng that confuses me is that your hull is #27. That is way too low for a 2009 model 21EC if the hull numbers are sequential. My HIN is FMLT2142I607 which means it is hull #42 and it was built in September of 2006 and is considered a 2007 model.

I wonder why there is a disconnect on the number of hulls built. Maybe Andrew can shed some light on the total number of R-21ECs built.

Aloha,

Rick

 

[sparky]

Agree with Rick. I can't quite understand the sequence of R-25s either, as I believed we have the first R-25 2009, but the number is US-FMLT2513G809. She is a 2009 and was started in July and delivered in August of 2008. So we have lucky #13 somehow!

Sparky
Starry Night

 

[captain's cat]

OK TUGGERS, here's the skinny on HIN's

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hin.htm

Rick, yours translates to

FMLT - Fluid Marine
2142 - Assigned by builder a 21' #42
I6 - Date of mfr Sep 2006
07 - Model Year 2007 (don't forget, at some point they change model years, not necessarily at the start of the year).

Sparky, yours is

FMLT - Fluid Marine
2513 Assigned by builder a 25' #13
G8 - Date of mfr July 2008
09 - Model Year 2009

What I cannot tell you is how many they made each year or if they start over at the beginning of the model or mfr year.

Only the factory can.

Charlie

 

[Andrew Custis]

The Hull # is actually a question for Jeff Messmer or John Livingston since they are the ones who participate in the model year change over 😀 . I know how the R25's have gone but am clueless on the R21 🙁