On Aug 6, 6:30*pm, wrote:
Well, you can probably stamp it into a hunk of metal and attach it
with permanant screws or rivits.. They just want to know that you are
not moving it from boat to boat on weekends..-

The silly thing is, I could just take that same number and put it on 2
or 3 boats, since I'm making the number myself and attaching it, and
there is no inspection of the process. Granted, I'd have to get some
extra tags each year, or move those from boat to boat... and I'm not
interested in cheating the system anyway (even if the fees are double
what they where in CA).

The motor vehicle department has a much better system... when I
registered my homemade trailer, they attached a sticker with the
number on it at the time of the inspection, before I got the
registration/title. They made me sand it down to bare metal where
they attached the sticker, and the sticker has a lot of special
printing on it and is tamper proof, so not just a sticker I could
easily recreate on a normal printer.