Oops, I hit the send button by accident a little too soon.

Here's a link to the relevant page on the California DMV site, with all the
details you'll need:

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/boatsinfo/boat.htm

Tom Dacon

"Dick Locke" wrote in message
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I bought a dinghy in Florida, never registered it there and didn't pay
sales tax because I took it out of Florida within an allowed time. I
finally used it for the first time in California.

I was under the impression that state registration (and hence the
deadly 8-ish percent "use tax") could be avoided by labeling the
dinghy "tender to" the mother ship. That vessel is documented.

If I look at the DMV web site, it only allows exclusion for liferafts,
and says anything else has to be registered. Yet, I see lots of
dinghies labeled T/T something...

Anybody been through this experience?