On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:00:56 -0800, Jim Richardson
wrote:

Are you implying that IL and FL require registration numbers be
displayed on USCG documented vessels?

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No numbers, just decals/stickers. It's the same amost everywhere.
About the only thing that changes between states is the number of
stickers and display location. Sometimes the state registration
number is on the sticker in tiny type.

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:14:01 GMT, Commodore Joe Redcloud
wrote:

Sorry, Wayne but that's not quite accurate. Federal law dictates that NO state
can require you to post state registration numbers. No exceptions. Your
documentation number is the only "registration" number, and it is not posted on
the outside of the boat. If there is a serial number on a certificate of decal
issued by a state, it is not a registration number.

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Well you are at least half right on that one, possibly 100%. I just
took my flashlight and walked down to the dock. My 24 ft cuddy is
registered with Florida and the number on the bottom of the sticker
corresponds with the reg numbers beginning with FL, same thing with
the dinghy. The GB49 is documented, and has a series of numbers on
the bottom of the sticker beginning with a "D". Tomorrow I will
check to see if the numbers on the sticker match up with my doc
number. Stay tuned.

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:43:56 GMT, Commodore Joe Redcloud©
wrote:

"(BUT NOT NUMBERED)"

How hard is that to understand?

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It's a pretty fine hair to split when the required state sticker does
in fact have a number on it. The number must mean something to
somebody even if it's not technically a "registration" number.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:43:56 GMT, Commodore Joe Redcloud©
wrote:


"(BUT NOT NUMBERED)"

How hard is that to understand?


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It's a pretty fine hair to split when the required state sticker does
in fact have a number on it. The number must mean something to
somebody even if it's not technically a "registration" number.

Not a fine line at all, to me at least. It means I don't have to have 3"
numbers on the port and starboard bow *in addition too* the small
sticker. Looking around SD bay, you can tell the documented boats a
mile away...they don't have big numbers plastered all over them.

Keith Hughes

Commodore Joe Redcloud wrote:

Many people get their boat documented for that reason alone. It's a one time
expense that keeps all that large block letter junk off the sides of the boat.
Can you imagine the uproar if people had to do that to their Lexus or Jaguar?

Lexus or Jaguar hell. I don't want that on my boat, *or* my
Volkswagens! :-)

Keith Hughes