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11-29-2016, 08:24 PM
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Veteran Member
City: Key Largo
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: 450 Ocean Alexander Classico
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 27
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USCG Documention Boards
Anyone have a good source that is reasonably priced.
A through search revealed the lack of one on my boat. Oops.
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11-29-2016, 09:07 PM
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Guru
City: Tri Cities, WA
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 4,406
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You don't really have to have it on a separate board, it just has to be put someplace in the engine room where, if it was removed the removal would be obvious.
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Mike and Tina
1981 Boston Whaler 13'
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11-29-2016, 11:33 PM
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Guru
City: Boston
Vessel Name: Adelante
Vessel Model: IG 30
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 1,611
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GFC
You don't really have to have it on a separate board, it just has to be put someplace in the engine room where, if it was removed the removal would be obvious.
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Mine was painted onto the FB under the starboard lazarette, basically inaccessible with everything packed in there, so I ordered a plastic plaque and glued it to a more visible spot.
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11-30-2016, 10:25 AM
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Guru
City: Philadelphia, PA
Vessel Name: Revel
Vessel Model: 1984 Fu Hwa 39
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 1,024
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Well, in fact, the documentation number is not supposed to be removable; it is supposed to be permanent. But, if you want it on a board that's pretty, many sign shops can engrave one for you with the right size and style of numbers. I had one made here in Philly for about 1.5 boat dollars, on my own piece of Makore which I then glued into the boats' woodwork.
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11-30-2016, 11:37 AM
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Guru
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 1,288
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The documentation # must be of proper size and form as outlined by CG (NO.######) and carved or affixed to your boat in a way that can not be easily removed without damaging structure. Don't exclude the NO and period(NO.) before the number. screwed in no good, epoxy glue behind a wood plaque probably ok if affixed to a none removable structural component (not a cabinet door etc.,) a simple and cost effective way I suggest particularly on FG boats is to paste the same #s sold in chandleries for state #s to the inside of the hull in motor room or locker wall and then cover the #s with a six inch FG tap all soaked in epoxy. The black #s show through the somewhat translucent tape clearly. On metal or wood boats engraved #s on a structural or inner hull section are advised. As a certified CGAUX vessel safety inspector I have to verify that documented vessels comply and many do not.
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11-30-2016, 12:32 PM
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Guru
City: Inside Passage Summer/Columbia River Winter
Vessel Name: Alaskan Sea-Duction
Vessel Model: 1988 M/Y Camargue YachtFisher
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 8,050
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This is where I had mine made:
Documentation Boards Inc.
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11-30-2016, 06:11 PM
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Guru
City: Vermont
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 10,094
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alaskan Sea-Duction
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For what it's worth, I used Documentation Boards Inc for my boat and was very disappointed in the service. It took forever to get the board. I would not recommend them. I just went back and looked and it was three weeks before they even started to make it, and over 4 weeks before I got it.
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MVTanglewood.com
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11-30-2016, 06:21 PM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,559
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My builder-installed documentation board.
I documented the boat before construction was complete.
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Kar-KEEN-ez Koot
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11-30-2016, 10:42 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 392
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I ordered vinyl numbers. Same as boat name. I think the pictured example would fail the difficult to remove requirement. Mine are installed on a wall in the head.
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12-01-2016, 06:07 AM
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#10
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 28,154
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While I understand the screw on boards don't technically meet the requirement, I have never heard of an issue for recreational documented vessels. Commercial may be a different story.
If they are epoxied on as well...not sure why they wouldn't.
The USCG probably does understand that ever since wooden boats, changing a doc number on a boat and hiding the old one isn't rocket science.
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