Since Bill and I are now Floridian with our mail going to Green Cove Springs, our Drivers Licenses and our voting registration now it is time to have Enigma be a Floridian too.This will be a process. Since she is a documented vessel we got our renewal in the mail. There is a place to change your mailing address and send it back, OK, but if you want to change anything else, like the hailing port, you need to send in the application and fee as if you were redocumenting. This seemed strange to me since the address is three lines and the hailing port will be three words. So I called to confirm this. The answer I got about the hailing port was "You need to change your address under the managing owner but as for the hailing port, it is up to you. The Coast Guard doesn't care". So for now her hailing port is still in Connecticut.
Next was the insurance. I emailed our agent to find out if we need a whole new policy to keep her in Florida waters all year. If no, how far south can she be and how much more will it cost. He sent back a note that our current insurance does not cover Florida to stay in after 6/15. He found us another policy the next day that covers us here. Cool. Now the price???? About $30.00 per year less. WOW. Sign us up.
Now the registration. At first we thought we would need to apply for a title, since in Connecticut we don't get one for a vessel, but they do in Florida. Looking into this more it seems that as long as the boat is Federally Documented, which Enigma is, you don't need one. The fee is much less here than in CT for a 35 ft. boat, but more for our dinghy. Oh well. On our next trip to the DMV we will register her here.
It didn't rain last evening but the sky was puffy clouds and pretty.
Hope everyone has a great day..
Patti and Bill :-)
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