These are some tips I picked up while obtaining a new hull ID for my boat and getting it registered.I will also give the tips I learned on boat motors and trailers. Here's the story.
In 1992 I bought a brand new 10 foot Jon boat from Marine One in Spartanburg,SC.I was 15 and did not understand the title and registrations laws.I also lacked the ability to think ahead. Beat this the best of the english beat tour 2019. Excellent write up. Obtaining a title here in KY was easy as pie when I bought my boat. With the proper paper work it is.I bought my boat with the idea that I would only use it on ponds.I didn't know I needed a title to put a boat on a public lake.Then the dealership closed a few years later.I recently decided to title mine.I had to go through the process of explaining why I need a title and why my hull ID plate was faded out to the point it couldn't be read.I was 15 years old when I bought the boat and I am 31 now.The boat was in storage at the farm I worked on when I was in high school.I figured I would share the info I learned this summer while getting my title. In Illinois I had an issue with registering my ATV trailer. Here trailers need registration and plates. I bought the trailer, which is obviosly an old snowmobile tilt trailer that had been rehabbed and not scratch built.
I bought it from a guy in Illinois who said he never titled it as he only used it on his farm and farm equipment is exempt. He got it from a guy in Wiscoland where trailers are not even registered. The DMV told me the seller, who gave me a bill of sale, had to titled it and then he could sell it to me. Fortunately for me the DMV office I went to did not have trailer plates there and told me to go to a different office after I got the seller to title it and transfer title to me. I went to the other DMV office and asked how to title a homemade trailer.
Hull Serial Number Lookup
I filled out the paperwork, paid my fee and was handed a sticker with my VIN and a license plate. The clerk recommended that I keep the sticker in my tow vehicle and use metal stamps or etch the VIN on the trailer tongue. I stamped the number on a piece of aluminum and rivited it to the tongue. The next time won't be the first time I've made the same mistake twice.
Lowe Line Boats
All the romance of fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?