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From: R.M. Czwarno (no email)
Date: Sun Jun 05 2005 - 08:04:02 EDT
All Canadian vessels over 15 gross tons must be registered...it is optional
below that
Canadian registered vessels must follow size/tonnage-related rules for the
placement of the name and home port...for most pleasure vessels, the name
and home port can be displayed anywhere on the hull, as long as they are
displayed together...normally the name and home port are put on the stern.
The name may also be placed on the bow if the name and home port are
displayed on the stern. The Latin alphabet and arabic or roman numerals
must be used, and the lettering must be at least 10 cm high. The US
government probably uses the same 'rules' for documented ships...most
countries will, since marine conventions tend to be universal...the big
differences will be in alphabet, since non-latin alphabet using countries
(such as Russia [cyrilic alphabet] or Japan, China, Korea [variations of
pinyin], the UAE [arabic] for example) substitute their own script with the
Latin script being secondary.
Licensed vessels (as opposed to registered vessels) follow provincial/state
rules, and generally require the boat's license number on the bow. Names
are optional in the license system, and there are no rules of placement per
se, as long as the name does not obscure the licence number or occuply the
position mandated for the license3 number.
Hope that helps...
Now to be pedantic...in Canadian registry terms, a sailing vessel with an
auxilliary motor is known as an auxilliary motor screw vessel (ams)...a
'sailing vessel' (sv) is one with no auxilliary engine and a vessel with no
sails is a motor vessel (mv). Most people just use sv or mv.
Michael
ams Rhyddid sailing out of the Port of Halifax, but moored on Vancouver Island.
At 10:09 PM 6/4/2005 -0700, De Clarke wrote:
>can anyone clarify for me the conventions on the painting of boat
>names on hulls? where I sail (central Calif) the tradition seems to
>be that the boat name (usually graphical in some way) is painted
>on the sides just forward of the transom, or a bit further forward than
>that but not extending past amidships. the home port is generally
>found on the transom and the registration number replicated on each
>side at the bows. this seems pretty consistent.
>
>however up in BC I saw many boats with the vessel name painted up on
>the bows and the home port sometimes on the transom and sometimes
>painted in smaller lettering just under the name.
>
>is this merely regional or a difference in regulations/conventions
>between the US and Canada (or Calif and the rest of the world for all
>I know)? does it really matter (if a vessel is not documented -- in
>US parlance) where the name is painted? I am trying to decide where
>to have the name painted on my boat (lying in BC at present) and don't
>want to have to repaint it when she comes down to California for a
>couple of years.
>
>are there requirements for the size of letters in which a boat name is
>painted, if it is for casual pleasure use only? inquiring minds want
>to know before paying for a painter to do the art work :-)
>
>de
>
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