Home City OR Sailing city on Transom

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Boat Babe

Boat Babe

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May 17, 2007
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HUNTER 25.5 St. Augustine
Driving around my marina today, I noticed that on the transom, below the name of the boat, many owners place a city and state. However, while many are local, many cite cities that are obviously their residence city which is not even on a body of water. So which is proper... the city (body of water) that you sail on...OR the city where you live? Thanks.
 
Paul Akers

Paul Akers

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Dec 3, 2003
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Hunter Legend 37 Portsmouth, RI
I Think (And Correct Me If I'm Wrong)...

... that it is a matter of choice. I have seen boats near my marina that have town names in central NH. I have my town name on my boat. I has my hailing port on it. But may change it when I relocate to another state in the early summer. I think it can have either your place (town) of residence or your hailing port, or even the city-name of the Coast Guard district that you are documented in. But, it should not be a lie (for tax reasons).
 
Andy1237

Andy1237

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Jun 30, 2004
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Hunter 340 St Andrews Bay
Three choices

In the past I thought you had the choice of 1)hailing port (where you sail from)2)home port (where you live), or 3) the port from which your USCG Registration was issued. Now that there is a National Center where all docs are issued we must be down to 1 or 2 (And we all wish they were the same!)
 
Jadedcrew

Jadedcrew

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Nov 12, 2006
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Catalina 36 Bainbridge Island
Ports

Documented vessels are required to have the home port with the state. The home port cannot be changed without redocumentation. So some of the vessels may have been documented with a home port, and have since moved. My boat has a home port of Astoria Or. as that is where we originally moored her when we were documented. We have since moved to the Puget Sound area but still have Astoria Or. on the transom. Non documented vessels can put any city, port, whatever, or nothing on their boats.
 
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manana

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Feb 10, 2008
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Catalina 34 San Diego
hailing port

The correct city would be where the vessel hails from (it's home port). I see many boats in San Diego with Scottsdale, AZ for a hailing port but I know the Colorado River is not deep enough for them to get here from there. If its a documented vessel, the hailing port on the documentation must be on the vessel (be it inland or coastal).
 
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Ray

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Mar 10, 2006
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Hunter 26 Kettle Falls Wa.
Our boat was documented and we were from...

Kettle Falls, Washington. A far, far piece from saltwater. The boat was documented and kept in Alabama with our home address in Wa. on all the papers. We were instructed to place K.F. Wa. on the transom. Ray
 
Mike B

Mike B

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Apr 15, 2007
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Beneteau 43 Baltimore, MD
Documented vessels

If your boat is documented you have a choice between your home port or your home town. We chose our home town as it's an aggravation to change it if you move to another marina.
 
Boat Babe

Boat Babe

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May 17, 2007
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HUNTER 25.5 St. Augustine
I'm Un-Documented

She's not documented. So, I guess I'll just put the hailing port (Annapolis, Md) on the transom. Thanks for everyone's help. Steph
 
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