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Some of the numbers are stamped into the HID plate, but all are not. The printed numbers/letters have all been missing due to years of exposure and use on both of my whalers. In both cases, I have found original identical HID plates still intact in another location that is hidden and unexposed.

This problem with the printed characters being lost on the external HID plate led directly to this article about my transfer of ownership on the 1986 Outrage 18 into TX from FL.
http://www.whalercentral.com/forum/vi...d_id=13556

When I purchased and transferred ownership of my 1989 Whaler 27 a couple of years later, I got the information I needed about the second HID plate location, and I used photos of it to completely eliminate any problems in registration.

I do not know if your model has a second HID plate hidden somewhere on it, but somebody here on this site should know, and if it does, should also be able to tell you where it is located.