Just registered my old pontoon, need to know how every one displays the number and sticker. The person at the DMV said I only need to display the sticker and the month. Don't know if they knew what is correct or not. Boating regs only show actual boats and require the info be permanently applied.
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They are wrong. You need both the number/ letter that says on the registration paper displayed on your boat with your stickers. I recommend buy a hard plastic piece board and use permanent marker marker and write the letter and number on with your stickers on it and just drill a few holes in them then tie it to your pontoon.
As well keep that registration paper with you all time in a zip lock bag because maybe someday a dnr boat will ask your to show your registration. It happened to me a few years ago at bear lake.
Hope this easily answered your questions and enjoy floating around and don't catch to many dead turkeys at dc this weekend [laugh].
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Do you need to register if there is NO motor?
or only register if it has a motor?
THanks!
Mike
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You only need to register it if it has any kind of motor...gas or electric.
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I went to Home Depot and bought a $1 piece of plastic (like the real-estate signs), cut it in thirds,poked a few holes with a knife and ran shoe laces through the holes.
As for the numbers I chose to just buy the stickers with numbers and letters at sportsmans.
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Thanks to all for the help!
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Once you put a motor on anything including a float tube, a SUP, whatever, it becomes a motorize boat.
You need to display the 2 letters, four numbers, U & T (in 3")and the state sticker and the month on each side of boat.
Figure you will need at least 20" long piece X maybe 4" high. You can use stickers or you can paint them on.
I use a piece of vinyl siding.
It must be displayed so other boaters can see them.
More and More people are using motors these days. They will be enforcing it, I am sure as I have seen it.
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The plexiglass on the side of the inflatables is really solid and looks very clean. I like it.
I went a different route; I had a reverse stencil made and sprayed the license number on the front outside of both pontoons and attached the stickers to the frame on each side.
Here is a pic of mine.
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Nice and legible provided you never plan on selling the boat. And the state and month are not visible, which again with more people putting motors on "could" be considered not good placement.
Visibility from another boat on everything, specially month.
Been there.
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True, it just takes one DWR officer to determine it doesn't meet the requirements to have a problem, but we've been checked once and it passed.
The plexiglass/siding type setup is certainly the most precise interpretation of the letter and spirit of the law.
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Here ya go. Three ways I have done it.
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Back in the days they used to require windsurfers to register their boards. Could you imagine registering 6 boards in a family of 3?
But it does have it benefits. One friend of ours was at The Hood River in Oregon and became seperated from his equipment. He checked the down river shops and sure enough there was his board with the registration numbers on it. They asked him to prove that it was his and the registration sheet on him was enough proof to get his board back from them.
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Never thought of that, that's pretty slick.
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