On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:43:01 -0800, ray lunder
wrote:

Ahoy, I live in Washington state and am thinking about my first "real"
boat- a blue water cruiser in the $30k-$120k. When I buy a car I pay
something like 8% or if it's a gift or a damaged vehicle or you phoney
up the bill of sale you still pay some arbitrary made up blue book
value the state institutes and which is not insignificant. On a $100k
boat this is $8000. Something tells me rich people don't pay this. So
what's the scam? Foreign registry or forming your own corporation or
what? Sorry to be so clueless. Thanks for your time.

Ask any yacht brokerage in Portland how to do it. They specialise in
sales to WA residents,


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2001 Ultraclassic with Sidecar
96 Custom bucket of bolts (gone but not forgotten)

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