Once you receive your Canadian boat registration numbers, it will be important for you to display them on your vessel. Here are all the guidelines you’ll need to follow when doing this.
How to Display Canadian Boat Registration Numbers
If you recently got your Transport Canada registration in order, then that means you received your boat numbers along with it. These will serve as the identifying numbers for your vessel going forward, which will involve having them displayed on the vessel itself for it to be recognized by the relevant authorities. Don’t know how to do that? Well, here are the guidelines for how to display Canadian boat registration numbers.
Displaying Numbers For Registered Vessels
If what you are doing is registering your commercial vessel, you will have to display the corresponding number following the guidelines for a boat identification number in Canada. Yeah, registering your vessel will be very important, but so will making sure that the corresponding registration number is properly displayed on the vessel going forward. Let’s take a look at the specific requirements for these displays.
- Both the name and your Canadian boat registration numbers need to be displayed on both sides of the vessel’s hull.
- Letter markings have to be at least 10 centimetres or 4 inches.
- Permanent markings need to be etched or affixed regarding tonnage and similar statistics.
- For obvious reasons, the number needs to be above the waterline.
- The colour of the letters needs to distinctly contrast with the colour of the bow.
Displaying Your Pleasure Craft Number
Just like with registered vessels, there are very particular guidelines that need to be taken into account at the time of properly displaying the pleasure craft number on your vessel. If you are not aware of where the pleasure craft number should be displayed or end up painting the digits in the wrong place, you might end up getting in trouble with the Transport Canada authorities. To avoid that, let’s make sure you have everything in order.
- The licence number needs to be displayed on both sides of the bow.
- For obvious reasons, the number needs to be above the waterline.
- The digits need to be written in block characters that are at least 7.5 centimetres (or 3 inches) high.
- The colour of the letters needs to distinctly contrast with the colour of the bow.
Get Your Registration Numbers
Your boat ownership should be fun and exciting, which is why we don’t want you to have to worry too much about its more menial aspects, such as paperwork. Here at the National Vessel Registry Center, we can help you take care of all this quickly and efficiently so that you can focus on what matters most. Here, you will find every form, every application, and every guide related to your boating documentation, so go ahead and get started with whatever it is you have to do, be it your registration, your pleasure craft licence, or your boat history transcript. Our platform will have everything you need and more.
