Ahoy All,
When I first documented Bandersnatch it was required to have the Federal registration number carved or otherwise irremovably attached to the "main beam". Since, like a fiberglas boat, my ferro boat has no "main beam" the documentation officer in Charleston at the time told me to carve it into the forward side of the forwardmost bulkhead, (the forepeak bulkhead in my case) so that's where I put it. The hailing port at the time could be either the principle port of use or the owner's residence. I had to go to great lengths to keep the "Charleston SC" on the stern for some years as I moved to Florida. Eventually the CG dropped that requirement and now the hailing port is apparently considered just like the name and can be most anything. The state sticker, required by Florida and other states, to show one has paid money to the "system", is to be placed in the lower aft corner of the portside cabin window. This is often eyeballed by cops everywhere to see if I have paid the protection racket money at least to someone. I even watched an undercover cop's lip's move as he mouthed the reading the sticker date one day after we had entered into SC territory. I don't complain too much; in Florida it the registration fee is less than $100/yr for both the big boat and the dinghy combined. On a documented boat state numbers are not required, only the sticker. A neighbor was harassed by the Florida cops for not having a HIN (hull identification number) on a home built boat. After going around in circles as each state agency passed the buck to another the state police eventually issued a letter of apology to him. I did find out that one can obtain a HIN from the same folks that do the Federal Documentation just by asking for one. It is carved into the upper, port corner of the transom in small characters. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
