On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:02:30 -0600, you wrote: >HINs are required on all boats manufactured since '72 and were used before >that as serial numbers by some manufacturers (or more correctly, the serial >number was used as a sort of HIN before then). It's a Federal requirement >enforced mostly by Federal authorities but, yes Norm, the States and local >authorities get into it as well. Each boat should have two HINs one on the >aft starboard quarter/transom (where you'll find it on most small pleasure >boats) and the other somewhere else (depends on manufacturer - some >locations for the second HIN are hidden and the info is close-hold since >it's used for theft investigations). > I didn't know that they all had two HINs. I knew ours did, but not for other boats.
>All States can provide HINs for home-built and repaired boats that can't >identify the original HIN. USCG may do that too...I don't know. > The CG doesn't supply HINs AFAIK, but I know that they will supply new documentation numbers if you don't know the original one that the boat had. >Rosalie: One definition of rant is "a very loud, aggressive, or bombastic >speech that is usually long and repetitive". Norm wasn't loud but given his >message history vis-a-vis his opinion of law enforcement, the use of rant >was not grammatically improper. > I don't think he was aggressive or bombastic either. There's no fairness in saying - well he did this before, so this must be the same this time. And Bella doesn't really know his posting history anyway. If anyone is aggressive and bombastic in this discussion, it isn't Norm. >CT >30°24'43.07"N >88°34'1.90"W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardnow.org To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardnow.org The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
