>Ted, Thank you for the web site lead. Unless I'm reading it wrong, it
>looks to me like "J" is code for October!!! Either way, whether it's
>May or October somebody at IM has a time machine (or more likely screwed
>up) since "J899" means my boat was made in October 1999, and I know it
>was made sometime in January. Oh, well!!!
Wrong. It means it's the 1999 model year. J8 means it was built in
October 199...8.
Tim Spofford
Kirkland, Washington
P-19 #611