I was told back in 1976 when we first documented our Morgan, Tai-Tai that the hailing port could be anything with a post office..
Norm why do you turn every post into a rant? It is what it is... no amount of complaining is going to change the way it is... for me the total cost is less than $20/year... the lady had no idea how old my boat was.. doc is $5, dink is $6something, and its a bit more than that for the boat.. actualy once they know its 44 yrs old it drops to $4/yr for it.. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Norm of Bandersnatch < [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > -- It's not about the boat it's sails or rigging. It's about the freedom. http://www.slideshare.net/jacko91/these-are-my-credentials/ http://fisherhouse.org/ http://www.specialops.org/ "We are the guardians of a great faith. When we believe that freedom offers the best chance of peace and prosperity for all, and our desire for peace cannot be seperated from our believe in liberty." Harry S. Truman Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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