Under the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 all waterborne craft that use Canadian waters should be registered and licensed. The same rules apply as when buying a new build. The only difference is that as a second-hand vessel, your craft comes with a history and documentation. Mainly, it is just a question of transferring the title…
Now that you have your vessel, what’s next? The requirements for registering and licensing vessels in Canada are detailed but straightforward. It is just a question of filling out the correct forms. Which forms depend on to what use you wish to put your craft. First-time registration is quite simple because the information is basic…
When buying a boat, it is essential that you have it registered as soon as possible, and absolutely before you start using it for commercial purposes. If you have bought a new boat, then you and the seller will have to complete a transfer of ownership form and submit it to the Transport Canada registry…
When you are thinking of purchasing a vessel, it makes sense to try to investigate its past, and to try to discover some more information about by conducting a vessel name query with Transport Canada. They can provide you with more information about the boat, and you may discover facts about the vessel which affect…
The Canadian registry of vessels is a way to keep your boat under the protection of the Canadian Coast Guard, and also serves as a way to keep an eye on your vessel if it is trading in international waters. There are several reasons why you should consider putting your ship on the Canadian Register…
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…