rcgreat
Well-known member
Well, I bit the bullet and decided to purchase a jon boat. After selling all of my old hobby stuff I went on the search for the perfect boat. I found a 14' flat bottom jon with trolling motor and trailer on craigslist and went to go look at it while I was working in the area. It was not exactly what I was looking for, but I knew I could make it work for my needs. I saved up the money and called the guy who was selling it and made arrangements for him to deliver it to my house, because of where he worked it would be easier for him to bring it by after work rather than meet up with me at his house. I thought "wow" what a bonus I'm going to buy a boat and not even have to go pick it up. When they showed up to the house when went thru the boat and started going thru the paperwork when I noticed the boat has never been registered in FL. I aksed him if this would be a problem and he said if there is any problem to give him a call and gave me his phone#. So I go to the tag office and they say to me that the "registration" that he gave me from PA is just a copy of the application for the registration and I needed to do a couple things to be able to title it in FL. First I need to get the actual registration, second I need to get a pencil tracing of the HIN#, third I needed to fill out a new bill of sale. Now here is where things go from bad to worse, I call up the guy I "bought" it from and he says that this was his step fathers boat (the other guy) and he would have to look for the registration, so I called the step father and he did not answer (go figure) I left a message explaining the situation and have not heard back. When I get home I figured I would go ahead and do the pencil tracing on th HIN# and when I compared it to the paperwork I have the numbers are not even close. So now I am pissed because it looks like I am not going to be able to get this titled and then it is pretty much useless to me. My question to you is, is there a way I can still get this titled so I can use it? Sorry to be so long winded, but I'm upset that I was taken for a ride that I dont see an easy fix for.