HINs are required on all boats manufactured since '72 and were used before that as serial numbers by some manufacturers (or more correctly, the serial number was used as a sort of HIN before then). It's a Federal requirement enforced mostly by Federal authorities but, yes Norm, the States and local authorities get into it as well. Each boat should have two HINs one on the aft starboard quarter/transom (where you'll find it on most small pleasure boats) and the other somewhere else (depends on manufacturer - some locations for the second HIN are hidden and the info is close-hold since it's used for theft investigations).
All States can provide HINs for home-built and repaired boats that can't identify the original HIN. USCG may do that too...I don't know. Rosalie: One definition of rant is "a very loud, aggressive, or bombastic speech that is usually long and repetitive". Norm wasn't loud but given his message history vis-a-vis his opinion of law enforcement, the use of rant was not grammatically improper. CT 30°24'43.07"N 88°34'1.90"W _______________________________________________ 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
