Required Display of Registration Numbers on Dinghies
There apparently is some confusion
The law defines a
(Example a) WN 5678 EF 1 or WN-
about whether registration numbers are
“tender” as a vessel used
5678-EF-1. The second tender vessel
required on dinghies powered by less registration number will be the next
than 10 hp outboards. This past summer
“for direct transportation
consecutive number. (Example b) WN
Olympia Harbor Patrol stopped and
between [the parent]
5678 EF 2 or WN-5678-EF-2.
warned people riding around in such
vessel and the shore and
There is a possible ambiguity in
dinghies without numbers displayed. all of this as it relates to documented
A sign on the counter at West Marine
for no other purpose.”
parent vessels – is the tender required
warned of Fish & Wildlife Officers to display the federal vessel number
giving a $240 ticket to someone in a
By Bob Hargreaves
followed by the suffix “1” or the state
dinghy with a less than 10 hp outboard issued number? (For documented
and no numbers displayed. On a walk vessels, the state still issues a vessel
down almost any dock, one will see number – which is found on the boat’s
dinghies without registration numbers registration – even though “[v]essels
displayed. So, just what is required? 88.02.030(6)(b). The “department” documented by the United States Coast
Most of us know that dinghies means the Department of Licensing Guard are prohibited from displaying
used as tenders that are powered by (DOL), which has promulgated a rule the [state] registration number.” WAC
outboards of less than 10 hp are exempt in the Washington Administrative 308-93-145(1)). An e-mail to the DOL
from registration under state law. See Code (WAC), section 308-93-145(9), Director that asked to “clarify whether
RCW 88.02.030(6). The law defines a that reads: the parent vessel numbers required to be
“tender” as a vessel used “for direct Is a tender as described in chapter displayed on a tender . . . . for a United
transportation between [the parent] 88.02 RCW required to display a vessel States Coast Guard documented parent
vessel and the shore and for no other registration number? Vessels used as a vessel are the registration numbers
purpose.” See RCW 88.20.030(6)(c) tender, while exempt from registration issued by the state of Washington or
(emphasis added). (So, if you the federal documentation
use a dinghy with a 9.9 hp numbers” received a reply
outboard to cruise around from Toni Smith of Vehicle
the waterfront on a summer Licensing at DOL that stated
evening or to go to Hearthfire in part: “The state issued WN
for happy hour, it is not exempt registration number assigned
from registration!) to the parent vessel must
The registration exemption be displayed on the tender
further requires that the with an additional number
dinghy be “owned by the following the letter.”
owner of a vessel for which a So now you know! The
valid vessel number has been required 3-inch high letters/
issued,” RCW 88.02.030(6) numbers in self-adhesive vinyl
(a), and that the dinghy “display under RCW 88.02.030, must display may be purchased at any local marine
the number of that numbered vessel the numbers of the parent vessel with or hardware store.
followed by the suffix ‘1’ in the manner an additional number following the
prescribed by the department.” RCW letter of the vessel registration number. 48° N
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