FAQ Category: FAQs for Pleasure Crafts

Are Water Ferries Passenger Vessels?

How Can I Move a Vessel While I Wait for My Certificate of Registration?

Determine If You’re Carrying Guests or Passengers

How is “Passenger” Defined in the Context of Boating?

What does the term commercial mean in the context of Canadian boat documentation?

Is There Any Time or Place on a Vessel When I Shouldn’t Wear a Life Jacket?

As an Operator or a Passenger on a Vessel, Do I Really Have to Know the Location of Safety Equipment?

What is a passenger vessel?

What is a small commercial vessel?

What are gross tons in the context of Canada boat documentation?

I Have a Pleasure Craft But a Friend Paid for Gas. Do I Have to Register My Vessel?

Anyone Over 16 Can Apply for a Pleasure Craft Licence

How Can I Learn the History of a Vessel?

How Can I Learn More About a Vessel From Before 1904?

What Information Do I Need to Apply for Historical Research of a Vessel?

What Do I Do If I Import a Boat Into Canada? 

How Do I Know if My Vessel Belongs on the Small Vessel Register? 

How Many Owners Can a Vessel Have? 

Where Can My Port of Registry Be? 

What is a Port of Registry? 

What Makes a Boat a “Pleasure Craft?”

What is a Bareboat Charter?

WHAT ARE THE MARKING REQUIREMENTS?

WHAT IS VESSEL TONNAGE?

RENEW YOUR CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRY EVERY FIVE YEARS THROUGH OUR SITE

WHAT VESSELS CAN BE DOCUMENTED?

HOW DO I KNOW IF MY VESSEL MEASURES FIVE NET TONS?

WHAT VESSELS ARE EXEMPT?

ARE THERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOCUMENTATION?

HOW LONG IS THE CERTIFICATE OF DOCUMENTATION VALID

WHERE DO I DISPLAY MY PLEASURE CRAFT LICENCE?

IS THERE A FINE IF I DO NOT HAVE A PLEASURE CRAFT LICENCE?

DO I NEED A PLEASURE CRAFT LICENCE?

WHAT IS A PLEASURE CRAFT LICENCE?

WHAT IS FIRST TIME REGISTRY?

WHAT IS REGISTRY?

What Is the Difference Between a Vessel Whose Number Begins with the Letter ‘C’ as Opposed to a Vessel Whose Number Begins with a Number, and/or a Letter and Numbers?

What Is a Joint Owner?

What Are the Marking Requirements?

How Can I Send My Paperwork to You?

Can I Request My Documentation is Prioritized?

How Do I Notify You of My Change of Address?

May I Renew my Document Early?

Should I Return the Certificate of Documentation with the Renewal Notice?

May I Renew a Lost Certificate of Documentation?

How Long Is the Certificate of Documentation Valid?

How Do I Obtain Title Information for a Documented Vessel?

Must I Submit My Application by Mail?

Where Can I Get Forms for Documentation?

How Do I Change the Name or Port of Registry of My Vessel?

How Do I Mark My Vessel?

What Are the Vessel Name and Hailing Port Marking Requirements?

How Do I Prove Ownership of My Vessel? 

How Do I Establish Canadian Citizenship? 

How Do I Prove Ownership of My Vessel? 

What are the Requirements for Registration? 

Are There Different Types of Documentation?

Which Vessels Have to Be Registered and Licenced?

How Do I Know If My Vessel Measures Five Net Tons?

Must My Vessel Be Documented?

What Vessels May Be Registered?