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Wayne.B

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.

Tom Francis - SWSports

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.

Um...well, not really.

In CT, the registration stays in "inactive" mode as it's permanently
assigned to any particular boat. I ran into this when I had the Chris
Craft Corsair that I wanted to restore before I found all the rot in
the fiberglass.

In CT, an expired boat registration stays listed to the last known
address of the previous owner. Our DMV will not release that
information until you apply for it or file an FOIA request. That
takes six weeks to "review". Once you get the owner's previous
address, you have to send a certified letter to the owner explaining
that you are now in possesion of the boat and they have to sign a
release. If the letter is returned as undeliverable, then you can
apply for a registration under your own name. The old registration
number is still on the boat though - it's permanently assigned.

The reason is interesting - boats are not subject to property tax in
CT.

Go figure - everything else in CT is. :)

Keith nuttle

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.

But the records are on file for long after the registration expires, and
should be available.

dh@.

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.

In the "STATE OF GEORGIA BOAT REGISTRATION APPLICATION" it says:

Prior out-of-state registration
current or expired
~use transaction type~
New GA registration

~Required~
Notarized Bill of Sale
with complete vessel information
and buyer/seller information

~Required~
Valid registration card of the previous owner
or letter from previous State registration office

Title (only coming from Title States)

Are they refusing to register
the boat for some reason? Is there something you are not telling us?

They told me to call FL. FL so far hasn't been any help, simply
telling me I need to contact the previous owner. I know that,
which is why I called them, but so far I haven't been able to
find out how to contact the previous owner.

A boat with expired registration is not registered anywhere.

.. . . "current or expired" . . .

dh@.

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.

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