Hello,
Just wondering if there are any laws about building your own boat?
I know if you build your own car or motorbike, they have to adhere to certain specs to get registered.
If you build a wooden sail boat for example, do they have to meet certain safety regs?
Thanks
There's laws and there's laws and there's laws and there's laws, all designed to prevent us from hurting ourselves.
If you want to register the boat there will be certain compliance regulations which will have more to do with revenue collection than real boating safety. Check with your state's transport office.
If you want to do it, just do it. The surfers have been doing it forever and the base jumpers are doing it daily.
No offence meant, just responding on the forum, but if you really are a stoned pirate, why did you ask the question? Maybe you are just stoned.
lol
WA is a police state and they target stoned pirates.
Can see me getting pulled over and asked for boat rego only to find i cant register it later because i dont meet some standard.
Hi Stoned
I have built my last four or five (I think it's five) boats and there in no regulation apart from the one where you don't want to kill yourself with a badly built boat. If you intend to race a yacht though, then it is a different matter, and the boat will need to comply to a swag of regulations.
My latest creation can be viewed at www.jethrowsicpages.blogspot.com and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Thanks alot Jethrow.
Your blog seems to be down at the moment, i'll check it out later.
I just thought that when it came time to register it, it would need to go over the pits and meet certain standards because i have an alternative boat idea that i want to try out and thought they would frown at its unconventional nature.
cheers
Yeah, sorry, typo in the link. It should read www.jethrowsicpage.blogspot.com You will see that there's certainly nothing conventional here.
One other thing that I remembered from when I built my 30' cat was that when it came time to get it boatcoded before rego, I couldn't provide proof of ownership as I didn't buy a boat from anyone, just heaps of foam, glass and epoxy. In the end I was able to find a boatcode agent that was a friend of a friend and he accepted that I owned it.
when i registered mine in WA the big problem was that the nearest place to get a HIN fitted was 600kms away. I booked a time and arrived at the boat shop and they insisted that the plates had to be riveted on (boat is wood) I insisted on screws and silicon to seal the holes.
Problem I had was that the boat had an ouboard motor mount which meant it had to be registered. BUT I had no outboard motorand no modeland ID number for an outboard, so the computer wouldnt register the boat. in the end a mate gave me a engine block from a wrecked outboard. I showed them the engine no on the block and they were happy with that.
Basically , they didnt want to see plans, nor how it had been built, they wanted my money
