IACC Sail Numbers
IACC sail numbers are issued according to the date the ACM measurement committee decides the hull has reached a certain stage of completion. The number comes in two parts: the country of ownership (represented by a three letter prefix) and the hull number. The country code changes as the hull is transferred from country to country. Only one boat had a sail number issued twice as in the case of RUS-62 which was a new boat based on the heavily modified hull of RUS-24 and re-registered as RUS-62.
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