>Last winter I registered my CLC Chesepeake with the State of Illinois. >Today I received a letter from DNR with the Hull Indentification Number >(HIN) that they arbitrarily assigned along with the requirement that > >"You shall either carve, burn, stamp, emboss or otherwise permanently affix >the HIN to the outboard side ...in such a way that alteration, >removal, or replacement would be obvious and evident." Every boat manufacturer has to put a HIN on every vessel. You're now a boat manufacturer, so you've got a HIN. What are the first 3 letters? Probably your initials? This doesn't have to be very big. Look on the stern of a commercial kayak. It took them ~6 months to send the number? Steve Cramer cramersec_at_earthlink.net 2002-07-12 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 05:59:29 PDT
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