USCG boat documentation issues

[divezonescuba]

Hello:

If your using your USCG documented boat for OUPV purposes, do you need to insure that your USCG documentation operational endorsements include something other than recreation?

 

[mmerriman]

Yes. A Certificate of Documentation may be endorsed for fishery, coastwise, registry, or recreation. Any documented vessel may be used for recreational purposes, regardless of its endorsement, but a vessel documented with a recreational endorsement only may not be used for any other purpose. Registry endorsements are generally used for foreign trade.

you want a coastwise endorsement - its $29

 

[Tortuga James]

During my renewal this year (I have a local law firm do it) I caught a check box for "passenger vessel 6 persons or less" and inquired why she had not checked that. So she did, but when the certificate came in the mail, there was nothing on it about that. It only had my endorsements, recreational, coastwise and fisheries. I inquired about that and she said she had checked that box on the renewal application but only the endorsements show up on the certificate.

I have another question. Tortuga is a UPV and I did commercial tuna fish last winter. I can't get a straight answer on my required markings. I have name and hailing port on the stern, but I just recently placed the name port and starboard on the bow. I realize commercial fishing vessels are required to have the forward markings, but as an UPV dive boat, are we required?

I figured that the advertising value alone was worth it.

 

[ComputerJoe]

Name on port & starboard not less than 3" high. Name and hailing port on stern. Official number on some permenent structure inmside vessel affixed so that removing it would make its absience obvious. There is a difference, I think, between one carring fishing passengers and a commercial fishing boat. Otherwise all our fishing six packs would have to be fishing endorsed and they aren't. My 2 cents