What state are you in? Most states will want a full copy of reciepts for materials used and will send a warden out to inspect it.

And they know real fast whats up, they look for sizes of the materials used and be sure everything adds up.

Then when the warden inspects it hell be able to tell real fast it wasn't a freshly built boat.

That being said, you'll prolly need to just apply for a lost title and file that way and go through that process

 

Yup when I registered mine I had to give em materials receipts and have the warden inspect it..
Gotta be a vin plate on it somewhere.. Call parks and wildlife they can walk u through the list title process.. Not hard just takes time

 

Where all would I find a vin# all I know is on the back plate is where they usually are??? Anywhere else I could look. I am in Texas

 

What kind of boat?

 

It's going to be tough in texas to get a title well more time consuming then most want to deal with

 

Mo is tricky on all licensing too.

 

Not for sure has no name anywhere, no vin, not even a rating plate that shows the max number of people or motor rating. 18ft long 72 in wide. Was gonna completely strip it down to bare aluminum and redo the whole inside them try to get it reg as homemade but don't know I'f it will work now.

 

Might as well try it if your going to end up doing the same thing to the boat if you go with the lost title

 

Here in al it's no problem, I think ms is the same way. They don't check chit here they just come out an give u a hull id number. Damn texans

 

Sent a court order off over a month ago for a lost title, still no word from LDWF.

 

I've only been fishing out of it 4 years now, figured it was about time.

 

Ohio is simple. You need to have a receipt of purchase/bill of sale notarized, then you take it to get it inspected. After it is inspected by the DOW, they register a new serial number, new reg numbers, and you are good to go.

 

You should just have him throw in the other boat and keep doin the same thing!

 

Take it to Arkansas and register it they will register anything, trust me i bought a stolen boat it AR once. I did not know it was stolen until 2 years later when i tried to register it in MO and they said it was stolen out of Lousiana. Lucky for me the guy never did claim the boat cause if he would of i would have been out off a boat and the money i paid for it. I think insurance already paid him for it so he was not looking for it anymore but i was nervous for along time just wondering if i was going to be screwed over by a theif and AR cause they failed to run the VIN before they licensed it.

 

In Mississippi you just call the local game warden out he inspects it an gives you a number an the number he gives you is the vin number an you can register it takes about ten min it's pretty easy

 

Just called Texas Parks and Wildlife they said all I have to do is bring it to my local tpwl office present a bill of sale, and a statement showing they owner never had it reg. or used it on public waters, they will have a game warden check it for a vin number. If no vin is found he will issue a new vin, title, and tx numbers. That seems easy enough

 

bring the boat with you to the TPWD office....he will issue the new number and youre on your way. Its not that bad. its not as hard as people make it to be...they probably havent gone thru the steps before.

 

Don't just pull it down there. You have to set up an appt for the game warden

 

Yep and every office does it on different days. For example fortworth does them on Thursdays and garland on Wednesday and Lubbock on Monday's. Call ahead, tell them exactly your situation, I wouldn't lie to them about anything (other then I wouldn't toss your buddy under the bus just tell them the guy before you didn't have a title) I can pretty
Much gaurantee you theyre going to make you title 42 it or section 233 MSO the boat. I as well as a lot of people I know buy boats at auctions, sometimes they don't tell you before hand there is no title for the boat, and when it's a homebuilt boat all they do is put a sticker vin # on it that peels off in no time so getting a title and reg for them is a pain in the ass. I know people that have been on the title 42 and 233 list for well over a year waiting to get their boat titled and registered when there is no vin or title.

When they do set you up you have to appear in front of them with a bill of sale and explain to them why there is no title or Vin THEN it's not even gauranteed theyll accept it

 

has there been a transom build up or repair ?maybe the plate was covered and not relocated there usually on the outside of the transom above the water line

 

no transom repair, but I am gonna go out on a limb and just buy the boat and start all my customizing, when I get done guess I will go through the process and get it titled and new vin. Lets just hope there is not a vin they find and it comes back stolen and I loose my arse.

 

Ive had to do this before on a boat I bought from Louisiana. It had a bad transom, when we fixed it we covered the vin number. I had to do the exact same thing. I had a title but couldn't get a pencil tracing of it. Made my appointment and Warden just walked around it and said alright lets go inside, he printed me a new vin # and installed it for me. Took maybe an hour the whole process. Just figured it would be harder since there was no title.

 

I would hate to sink all my money in one then to find out it was hot. My F&f had vins in 2 places. One on the out side of the transom then one hid at the base of the transom on the inside under a piece of angle. I wound have never found it if I hadn't had it upside down doing a poly job.

 

I have seen some vin plates on underside of rear corner pieces. where the gunnel meets the transom there is a small triangular piece, where alot of boats have there rear nav lights mounted. This was always on older monarch 1648 and 1448 jons. I never would have found the plate on mine located there if i hadnt of been drilling it for a rear light mount and it ended up knocking the plate off. I would look under and behind any kind of support or brace or anything else that is big enough to hide a plate the size of a dog tag. There is almost always one vin plate somewhere that someone missed when removing them.

 

I'm just saying texas game wardens these days are pretty smart and with stolen boats occurring more everyday they don't mess around. What they told you on the phone sounds good and all but I'm warning you it won't be that easy. You can't just walk in there and tell them you have a used boat with no title and no vin # and need to get it registered. She may have thought it was legally registered in another state by your friend, who never had it registered.

 

Well older boats do not in fact have a vin # and ks wildlife and parks at least understands this. I owned multiple late 60's models which when I registered they assigned a vin# / hull Id and I had to have that engraved and mounted in the boat in 2 locations in each case and problem solved