When you want to sell a boat, you need to be fully prepared to submit lots of paperwork to make certain that the vessel is no longer in your name. Whether you are trading your boat for another, larger one, or want to move on to a completely different commercial interest, you will have to…
Sometimes, it seems like the truest statement is that nothing ever stays the same. Your life can be going in one direction, in one way, for many years, and then all of a sudden, everything changes. Sometimes, it’s changes you weren’t hoping for but other times, the changes are good news indeed. When life changes…
Of the parts of our site that people don’t initially understand, “historical research” stands out. The other forms at our site, even if you don’t know exactly what they are for, make a kind of sense: licensing, registration, changing or altering some kind of registration, and so forth. Those are all forms that, one way…
Most of us haven’t read the Canada Shipping Act of 2001. There are a lot of valid reasons for that, not the least of which is how it’s not that much fun to sit down and actually read the Canada Shipping Act. However, in between all the legalese and laws about Transport Canada boat registration,…
If you’re reading this site, you’ve probably heard of the Canada Shipping Act. It may sound like something that comes from centuries ago, but actually, it was ratified in 2001. This Act greatly impacted and changed how vessel registration works in Canada. If you haven’t registered a vessel in a long time, then the landscape…
Have you been wondering if it’s time to “knuckle down” and get a watercraft license in Canada? Were you about to purchase that pleasure craft you’ve had your eye on for so long and want to know what to do to “make it official?” Getting a Pleasure Craft License is important for many reasons, not…
Boat safety and boat registration have one important thing in common: they’re both the responsibility of the person who owns the boat. When you’re behind the helm, it’s your duty to be as safe as possible, for yourself, the people on your boat, as well as other boaters on the water. When you’re filling out…
Transport Canada has many responsibilities, to put it mildly. They handle so much for our country, in terms of oversight, registration, and more. The truth is that while they do a great job, it’s entirely possible that things “slip through the cracks” with them, from time to time. We know that some vessel owners can…
A license to have fun. A license to enjoy the summer. A license to make the kinds of memories that happen in an instant but last for a lifetime. Those are just a few of the things that a license to boat can be. Of course, they can also be a license to have a…
When you think about how you have to do your Transport Canada boat registration, do you feel like you want to do literally anything else? Have you been putting off taking care of your registration or boat licensing? That is completely understandable. Filling out these forms is no one’s idea of a good time. Those…