When anyone in Illinois registers a home-built kayak, as I have done a couple of times, they receive a title, a registration card and decals for the hull. If you look at the registration card you got with the decals, a hull identification number was already assigned. For whatever reason, the state seems to only send the letter you got once a year. I just got one also for an inuit style boat I registered in November of last year. I spoke to the DNR folks who were very nice. The enforcement guys are more concerned with your having registered and having proof with you than looking for a brand in the hull. Four of the boats I have registered cannot have decals attached because two are folders and two are canvas-on-wood-frame. The police said that as long as I have a plate [such as a piece of plexiglass or something] with the decals on them and I have the registration card that shows that it belongs to that particular boat with me, all should be well. As with firearms and automobiles, identification numbers can be erased and altered. I have written my numbers on the wooden framed boats with laundry marker, just to show that I tried. Jim Tibensky _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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