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selling your boat.
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ownership, and vessel documentation.
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for securing marine loans and implementing preferred mortgages.
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researching boat titles, Coast Guard documentation, and boat
titling.
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Vessel Documentation and state titling procedures for new boats and
trade vessels.
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Reference material for transactions involving Coast Guard documented vessels.
As a matter of
perspective, just about anything afloat with living accommodations could
be viewed as a floating home. However, floating homes, house barges, and
house boats fall into different categories with respect to the manner in
which they are moored, utilized, titled, registered, and taxed.
Floating homes are building structures that are situated on a platform supported by
floatation devices. House barges are similar to floating homes, except
they are supported by a rectangular hull. House boats are self-propelled
cruising vessels with rectangular cabins situated on displacement type
hull structures. Although not designed for self-propulsion, many floating
homes and house barges are equipped with outboard motors
to avoid city or
county residential classifications. Coast Guard documentation, state titling, and state registration are
generally available for all three categories of such vessels.
Vessel titling is important
with respect to financing because it provides the lender with a
means of perfecting its loan via a preferred ships mortgage or legal
ownership. If the structure is not titled, it would qualify as a mobile fixture to the wetlands property over which it
is moored. Such property usually belongs to someone
other than the vessel owner.
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