Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980705190322.006bd6d0@tscnet.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 12:03:22 -0700
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: stephen <syahn@tscnet.com>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Hull ID numbers for US Coast Guard
No, it won't happen.
At 11:26 AM 7/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:36 PM 7/1/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>I do this. On all of the four previous kayaks I've built I sign my name
>>somewhere on the framework up away from the bilgwater and I put the hull
>>number. My next kayak I will put #5 next to my name. I do this only for my
>>own satisfaction. Now that I know the Coast Gaurd wants it I will just wait
>>until they want to come aboard for an Inspection. I'll invite them to go
>>below and see my number!
>
>Without the legal 12 digit Hull ID # your kayak can be impounded--they
>won't worry with boarding it, they'll just yank her aboard and drop you,
>sans kayak, at the dock.
>
>