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North American vs. Mako
I have a friend who is having Fl. title problems on a 1976 19/20' North
American center console after doing extensive cosmetic refurbishment along with a new transom and console. Are there any Ft. Lauderdale old timers here who may know if North American put the hull I.D. elsewhere besides the transom? Is anyone familiar enough with basic hull differences between the N.American and the similar 17' and 20' Makos of the time to settle the question. The cap is original but repainted over the years. Thanks |
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 3 Feb 2005 07:45:48 -0800, wrote: No offense, but something about this just looks weird. If he has the title, the police have no justification for anything. It also seems a little odd that they would take this kind of action without first checking out the yard and owner. If he has a verified paper trail, the police are in violation of unreasonable search and seizure laws. Just doesn't make sense. Later, Tom I agree. No offense taken. I can only figure that the yard may have been under some previous suspicion and survailence. He only got one block. This was not a big named boatyard I'm sure. Just one of the hundreds in the 3rd world Miami area with who knows what for a past. I think he is caught up in something none of us understand and good lawyers are expensive to a workingman. Some manufacturers put the number in more than one place. If N. American did, it will settle the matter without great expense. A peculiar situation? It certainly is. |
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On 2/3/05, bestweb3d wrote:
The difference between the 1976 N.American and Mako has been determined to the satifaction of the law, snip The law thinks all the unrelated events are some kind of conspiricy. Sounds like a typical bureaucratic snafu. He'll eventually get it sorted out if he has the patience and perseverance to hang in there, push the right buttons and pull the right strings. I bought an old 16' skiff and replaced the rotten transom. Saved the skin though, cut out the original Hull ID and epoxied it onto the new transom. I've wondered what sort of future probs I was creating by doing that but what the hey, I couldn't live with the transom the way it was. I wish I had taken before and after pics of the boat, the transom, and Hull ID but didn't think of that until afterwards. Not sure anything he does now will help much, depending on which bureaucrat you find yourself having to deal with. Another set of numbers elsewhere in the boat would settle the issue. As far as an alternate Hull ID location, I can't think of anyplace in a boat that might not eventually be replaced. And it sounds like, in this case, even that might not be enough to prove "non-conspiracy" to the satisfaction of an unsympathetic government bureaucrat. Good luck with that. I agree with the other poster that it doesn't make sense. But in a govt run bureaucracy, things often don't. Rick |
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