Recommissioning to do list

[Henry Boyd]

There might be some light at the end of the tunnel! After 7 months of calls and emails, my work packet is no longer pending, which they tell me means a USCG certificate is imminent!

Then on to stage registration and getting a sticker from the harbormaster. It never ends.

What is “stage registration”? Once you get your Documentation Certificate and have the Doc number permanently marked on the boat’s interior, the name and home port on transom you’re done in the Commonwealth.

 

[Fill Ess]

What is “stage registration”? Once you get your Documentation Certificate and have the Doc number permanently marked on the boat’s interior, the name and home port on transom you’re done in the Commonwealth.

Sorry, I mis-typed "state"

Are you sure I don't need to file the paperwork with Maskachusetts once I get the USCG number? I know I don't need the reg # on the bow but I thought that had to be done anyway. If not that's fantastic.

Funny part is, I know the USCG doc # and Hull ID # because I've entered it on so many online and hardcopy forms.

 

[Fill Ess]

What is “stage registration”? Once you get your Documentation Certificate and have the Doc number permanently marked on the boat’s interior, the name and home port on transom you’re done in the Commonwealth.

I have my new boat name and port graphics all ready to go!

I haven't come across the previous owner's doc number on board yet, I wonder where he put it.

 

[Fill Ess]

Also, sales tax paid plus late penalty

 

[JimG]

I haven't come across the previous owner's doc number on board yet, I wonder where he put it.

Most of the time the number placard is in the bilge... that's where mine is.

 

[Fill Ess]

Most of the time the number placard is in the bilge... that's where mine is.

Ok thanks, I had missed that. I got a hold of a copy of the PO's COD and it has the same official number. I mistakenly thought you got a new number even if you did an exchange.

 

[Fill Ess]

Per 46 CFR 67 .....

§ 67.121 Official number marking requirement. The official number of the vessel, preceded by the abbreviation ‘‘NO.’’ must be marked in block-type Arabic numerals not less than three inches in height on some clearly visible interior structural part of the hull. The number must be permanently affixed to the vessel so that alteration, removal, or replacement would be obvious. If the official number is on a separate plate, the plate must be fastened in such a manner that its removal would normally cause some scarring of or damage to the surrounding hull area.

 

[JimG]

Mine...

 

[Tripsdad]

Ok thanks, I had missed that. I got a hold of a copy of the PO's COD and it has the same official number. I mistakenly thought you got a new number even if you did an exchange.

Mine have always been in the bilge as well.

 

[Henry Boyd]

Our 280 i glued the plastic sign to the hull in one of the ver berth cubbies.

 

[Fill Ess]

Our 280 i glued the plastic sign to the hull in one of the ver berth cubbies.

Thanks Henry -- I looked everywhere in the bilge for a while and I couldn't find it anywhere. But I didn't check up in the bow behind those curtains.

How would this work if the USCG asks to board and do an inspection? Would they ask where it's located or is it like a treasure hunt?

 

[Henry Boyd]

No treasure hunt. With the last safety inspection we did on the 280, they looked at our certificate and just asked where it was. They took a quick look and that was it. The only trick is that it has to be attached to something that could not be removed from the boat. The reason being if the vessels sinks a diver would be able to find that placard.

 

[Fill Ess]

No treasure hunt. With the last safety inspection we did on the 280, they looked at our certificate and just asked where it was. They took a quick look and that was it. The only trick is that it has to be attached to something that could not be removed from the boat. The reason being if the vessels sinks a diver would be able to find that placard.

Well I looked for the doc number in every nook and cranny. No wonder I couldn't find it -- the PO told me he didn't have one