Hull ID Number?

[LoveMySeacraft]

Anything manufactured after August would be titled for the following year.

This is not always true at all. And that '76/'77 hull # versus title year thing, was a huge blunder. Boats can & do get confiscated because of something like this. What would I do? I would have a new hull # stamped into aluminum, or a phenolic plastic hull # plate made at a trophy or plastics shop, that has the correlating correct hull number on it. Just my .02