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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:01 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:29:56 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:17 -0400, wrote:

I'm in GA and bought a boat from someone who got it from someone
else. It came from and is currently still registered in FL, where
the someone else supposedly got it from "his brother". The person
I got it from gave me a notorized bill of sale

That should be good enough for Georgia. Are they refusing to register
the boat for some reason? Is there something you are not telling us?

A boat with expired registration is not registered anywhere.

I still bet there is a way to get the tax collector to give you the
registration information.

May be, but so far the people I've talked to wouldn't even tell
me if it's stolen or not, much less any personal information
about anyone. They wouldn't even tell me what county it was last
registered in.

I am pretty sure I have done it with cars. I
think you fill out a FOIA form

What's that?

and swear you won't use the information
for bad things. Might be a few bucks too. I think any county tax
collector can pull up that record. It is a state database.

As I recall I did it with my Honda and the name that came back from
Fla was a mystery guy in Cape Coral that nobody had ever heard of at
that address, no hit on a white pages search. The CarFax was shaky
too. There was a hole in the title history. The car just disappeared
for a couple years and popped up in another state.

Sounds like the OPs boat ;-)

I know I was always curious about where that car really came from.

It did sound similar to me until earlier this morning when I
talked to someone who has known the people for years, and says
they are respectable people who would never steal a boat or even
need to because they have plenty of money, and that the guy
really did buy the boat from his brother.