I ended up hiring a document firm to get mine squared away. Cost me $250. Papers showed up 4 months later. Now I pay annually straight to the USCG online.
Can anyone decrypt the USCG registration info?
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It is now possible to have a 5 year documentation. If you plan to keep your boat longer than 5 years, there is less paperwork for you and you are protected against any fee increases. Renewing for 5 years reduces the paperwork the USCG has to do and may serve to speed up their response.
I ended up calling my congressman and presented the issue. Around the same time I replied in an email thread with a USCG staffer asking for a ballpark when the request would be processed, citing the approaching deadline and potentially cancelling the request if it wouldn't come in time. Interestingly, within 10 minutes of these two events, that USCG staffer replied in the email thread with a priority request form. No idea if those are related. No idea if the priority request will be granted, or if it would even return it fast enough. But nevertheless it is a coincidence.
I thought it important to include in my correspondence to the congressman's office that I was not interested in overburdening a potentially already overburdened system, but also that I was personally facing repercussions, and that the website, phone support system, and staff email responses were nonfunctional and at times negligent. I included my utmost respect for the institutions and agencies in general.
One great thing about the less populated states like Alaska - short lines at the DMV. I just finished five years of grad school in San Francisco Bay, and don't even get me started about that nightmare. Pre- and post-doc in DC was no better.Now I wonder how many other states have a similar agency? I would not want to be doing this specialized marine title stuff thru the DMV, where 98% of the expertise is necessarily focused on cars and trucks... !
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- Dec 29, 2008
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