getting a homebuilt registered

[Thin water]

Thank you IKE, this whole thread may have saved me a bunch of trouble (and seizure of my boat). I hate laws that are not clearly spelled out and seem to contradict themselves. I have been to several suppression hearings on things that were much less ambiguous than this and it still took several hours for the attorneys to argue it. I guess we can call it a done deal, attach your HIN.

[SheetWise]

Thin water -

Wait until you what these geniuses can come up with after they establish a "Disambiguation Committee" ...

[JR-Shine]

In the mean time (while the argument over verbiage goes on) build the boat

In FL, you take your receipts to the tax office - you pay taxes on thing that you may no have payed sales tax for. You register it there and you done (if its under 16'). If its over 16' you have to take it by the DNR office and they "inspect" this is mainly to insure you are not trying to re-register a stolen boat.

In this state there are thousands of custom built boats, none of which were sunk by the USCG for testing.

Build one