Coast Guard Documentation & Boat Registration

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Boat Owners - Information of special interest for boat owners on maintaining ownership, state level registration, vessel documentation, and selling your boat.

Boat Buyers - Helpful tips for boat buyers or prospective owners on title research, establishing ownership, vessel documentation, and state level boat registration.

Marine Lenders - Guidelines, forms, services, and other resources for securing marine loans on the state or federal level with information on preferred vessel mortgages.

Yacht Brokers - Resources for conducting searches on Coast Guard documentation and state level registration with a full compliment of broker forms, services, and guides.

Boat Dealers - Vessel Documentation and state titling resources for new boats and trade vessels with special emphasis on financing and preferred mortgages.

Marine Attorneys - Reference material, guidelines, and other support resources for transactions involving Coast Guard documented vessels or state registered boats.



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Floating Homes

          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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