If you are intending to purchase a vessel, either for recreational or commercial purposes, you have to take important steps. These stages will ensure that the boat becomes legally yours. The vessel needs to be properly registered. This can be done with the state where you live in or with the Canadian Vessel Documentation Center.…
Learning How to Import a Vessel into Canada Today
When you are shopping for a pleasure vessel or yacht for yourself in Canada, you may find that there are better options and prices available. Specially, if you buy your boat somewhere in the United States. Whether you buy the vessel new or on the secondary market, you can save some money on the transaction.…
Know What to do When Importing a Vessel into Canada
You finally found the perfect pleasure boat, and it meets all your expectations and needs. You cannot wait to get it for yourself, but the one issue you have is that the boat is in the United States and you are in Canada. Since this is the first time you are purchasing a large vessel…
What to do for a Small Vessel Register (Commercial) in Canada
Owning and operating a commercial vessel is challenging and hard work. No matter what type of business you may run with your vessel, you need to make sure your boat is always safe and capable of performing the tasks in front of you. Beyond that, you also need to make sure your boat is registered…
Getting Transcripts and Historical Research on a Vessel
When you are first shopping for a large pleasure boat or yacht for yourself, it is likely that you will look at boats for sale from brokers or previous owners. A used vessel can be much cheaper than buying a brand new one will be, and it will still provide you with everything you want…
How to Mark Your Vessel Name and Port of Registry
According to Canadian law, if you own a commercial vessel you need to register it with Transport Canada. The laws for pleasure vessels differ slightly, and while you must license your vessel, registration is not a mandatory process you must go through. There are some benefits to registration that may make it appeal to you,…
What Do I Do If I Import a Boat Into Canada?
If You’re Importing a Pleasure Craft, Get a New Pleasure Craft Licence In the event that you’re importing a vessel into Canada that you’re going to use mostly in Canada, you must either get a new pleasure craft licence or register your vessel. No vessel can legally be licenced or registered in both…
Use Transport Canada’s Boat Ownership Lookup and Request Transcripts
Do you need to access some key information about a vessel? Well, navigating Transport Canada’s boat ownership lookup system might be hard, but we’re here to help with it. Boat Ownership Lookup Have you ever wondered what happens with all the information that you register about your vessel? Well, given that a boat’s hull number…
The Process of Bareboat Chartering Your Canadian Vessel into a Foreign Register
Boat ownership can be a wonderful thing, but you may find that when you own a large vessel, you do not get the time to take it out into the water as much as you would like. You have other responsibilities and requirements in your life, and it may seem a shame to you to…
Registering Your Vessel with Transport Canada Can be Easy
After going to the expense of investing in a high-quality, luxury pleasure vessel like a yacht, you not only want to make plans for fantastic voyages and trips for you and your family, but you also want to make sure that you register your vessel so you can be part of the national registry in…