Covering Hull Number

fatlazyless · 09-28-2015, 08:06 AM

Making a rubbing of the numbers can be helpful .....using a pencil and paper and some masking tape to hold the paper in place over the hull numbers while you rub out the rubbing.

For registering a 30-year old fiberglass sailboat, and providing hull identification at time of registration without having the boat present, the MP suggested I create a rubbing .... just like what's done with an old grave stone...and the MP looked up the 17-digit hull number in their computer info reference data-base to match up the sailboat with the hull number....and it worked out hunky-dory.....because it was a dory!

You just show up at the temporary MP-Hqtrs in Laconia, next to the county jail, and bring along your rubbing etching, pencil drawing paper for positive identification, and they will take it from there!

09-28-2015, 08:06 AM	#5
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 9,174 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 310 Thanked 1,103 Times in 812 Posts	Making a rubbing of the numbers can be helpful .....using a pencil and paper and some masking tape to hold the paper in place over the hull numbers while you rub out the rubbing. For registering a 30-year old fiberglass sailboat, and providing hull identification at time of registration without having the boat present, the MP suggested I create a rubbing .... just like what's done with an old grave stone...and the MP looked up the 17-digit hull number in their computer info reference data-base to match up the sailboat with the hull number....and it worked out hunky-dory.....because it was a dory! You just show up at the temporary MP-Hqtrs in Laconia, next to the county jail, and bring along your rubbing etching, pencil drawing paper for positive identification, and they will take it from there! __________________ .... Banned for life from local thrift store!