64 hulls · zero public trace · the honest map of ignorance
64 of the 89 hull numbers have never been tied to a boat by any public source this project could reach — and it reached statutory registers in two countries, the owners' club, thirty years of brokerage archive, the AIS networks, ocean-rally results and the Wayback Machine. At least 38 physical boats are entirely unaccounted for, even by name. This page is deliberately the emptiest and most important one here.
A boat that never sells through a major broker, never joins the club, never fits AIS and never crosses a starting line is invisible to every public instrument. That describes a plausible majority of a 1980s fleet: long single ownerships in home waters, cash sales between acquaintances, boats in sheds.
The dark fleet is not evenly dark. Hull ranges 2–4, 6–9 and 11–16 — the earliest boats — are nearly all missing, as are most of the 1993–1997 tail. The visible fleet clusters where brokers and clubs operate: the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Greece.
Some dark hulls are certainly among the known-but-unnumbered boats on the dossier page: 26 boats await a number that, in most cases, only the yard's delivery books could supply.
Five hulls were built in the special Caribia deck configuration (the yard confirms the edition; the count of five rests on an owner's post). Four are identified. The live lead for the fifth: a Spanish-flagged sailing vessel named CARIBIA, 15 × 5 m, call sign EA7218, transmitting Class-B AIS from the Bay of Cádiz — last fix off Rota. Spanish-flag sailing vessel named CARIBIA, ~15/5m. CANDIDATE FOR THE 5TH (unidentified) CARIBIA edition — none of the 4 known Caribias is Spanish-flag…
One document — the yard's hull-number/build-year delivery table — would anchor all 89 slots at a stroke and grade every broker year in the register. A draft request to Hallberg-Rassy Varv AB exists in the project archive, unsent by policy. Short of that: the Dutch Kadaster for the LADY OF SCORE chapter, Swedish register access for the many Swedish-flagged decades, and the slow archaeology of reading every surviving brochure — which has already produced three hull numbers from prose no database ever indexed.
