Thread: GIS New Hampshire build

Looking great!

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Here she is. Shiny and dusty. Moving in a few days so it's onto the trailer soon. Still need to varnish the rails, mast and spars. Working on painting the foils and tiller box. Her name will be "Una B." (Pronounced you-na) after my grandmother that lived in Nova Scotia. She was about 5' tall, blue curled hair, navy blue shorts, blouse with a sunflower brooch at the cleavage, penny loafers, Channel No. 5 and cigarette smoke. She'd wag her finger at us as kids, Export A dangling from her lip of course, and say, "DON'T YOU GO OUT IN THAT BOAT"! She'd seen enough weather to know. Also just received a little windfall out of the blue from her estate which was otherwise settled twenty years ago. Was enough to cover the sailing gear. My wife said, "Your grandmother even dotes on you from the grave"!

Also registered her today, so it's officially a boat. For NH residents here's what I needed to do after making many calls:

1. Get a "Verification of Vessel ID" form from the town hall or online.
2. Have an officer of the law look at the boat to confirm it has no VIN number. I was told various things about who needed to do this from local officers to Marine patrol. It can be any police officer. The DMV said that some towns won't do it but it could be done by an officer from any town. If you call your local police and are told they don't do it, you might try calling again and speaking to someone else because they might. I got three different people. First said they did and to call when ready. I called and the officer said they didn't. Third time they came out to the house.
3. Bring receipts from materials, enough to prove you made it, doesn't need to be everything, a copy of the plans (I just brought the appendix sheets), and the form that the officer signed.
4. Register at the DMV. Was told the town can't do it the first time.

Don't you just love a good bit of bureaucracy. The process sounds very similar to what we have to do in Western Australia, with the exception that we've got to write a Statutory Declaration to say we built it instead of providing receipts for materials.

The normal questions:
So who did you buy it from?
What do you mean you built it? Really?
)

Una B is looking great, hopefully the weather improves your way so you can get her in the water.

Cheers Dan

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Originally Posted by Beaton1

Also registered her today, so it's officially a boat. For NH residents here's what I needed to do after making many calls:

1. Get a "Verification of Vessel ID" form from the town hall or online.
2. Have an officer of the law look at the boat to confirm it has no VIN number. I was told various things about who needed to do this from local officers to Marine patrol. It can be any police officer. The DMV said that some towns won't do it but it could be done by an officer from any town. If you call your local police and are told they don't do it, you might try calling again and speaking to someone else because they might. I got three different people. First said they did and to call when ready. I called and the officer said they didn't. Third time they came out to the house.
3. Bring receipts from materials, enough to prove you made it, doesn't need to be everything, a copy of the plans (I just brought the appendix sheets), and the form that the officer signed.
4. Register at the DMV. Was told the town can't do it the first time.

You had a much harder time of it than I did. I just had to write down a "Statement of Construction and Ownership" or something to that affect and get it notarized. I stated I built the boat with my hands and it was constructed of such-and-such and it will be used for this-and-that. No police, receipts, or anything like that. I used the Concord DMV.

I guess they aren't all that strict about the registration. I basically followed the procedure outlined on the DMV website. I've noticed IAZ, P didn't have a bow number displayed. I was told I have to display it. I will have an outboard. We'll see what happens when we move to Mass. It looks like they require that you show that you paid sales tax on the materials. I didn't of coarse. I tried calling three offices in Mass and no one or any answering service ever picked up. So I figured it'd be easier to get it here before we move.

Thanks for the comments about the boat. The weather is warming up here. We're missing the ice out salmon fishing although we still might get some trolling in in a week or two.

Hail Una B!


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I just need the sticker, no need for the bow numbers because the Goat is under the required feet for bow number, but over the minimum for registration and is non-motorized. HOWEVER, it needs a bow number if you are going to use the outboard. Mine is strictly sail/oar so no number.

The opt-out bow number rule is little known, and tough to find. Canoes meet the exemption but so many people in NH put bow numbers on them, and they don't have to. Passed tens of times by NH marine patrol with nothing but a friendly wave.

The Una B. made it on to the trailer with the movers help and survived her first trip just down the street to our temporary housing arrangement. Got the first coat of varnish on the rail today in the driveway and hope to get another on tomorrow. Jack wants to launch this weekend!

Thought I posted earlier, but maybe it didn't take. Still varnishing the boat. Weather didn't cooperate last week and little league started etc. I opted for the Schooner Gold varnish lured in by the "sand every other coat.." It worked fine for the first coat but I had the darnedest time with it after it started to build. I used the interlux thinner, penetrol and ended up sanding each coat mostly off. Switched to Epifane the other day and had much more success. Still significant dust due to wind and finishing in an old barn, but it's coated. Hoping to launch this weekend. Jack is really itching to get fishing and I am as well. I think I'll be able to handle maintenance on the bright work, but it probably wouldn't take much to convince me to paint it all.

Anyway, I also had a chance to finally step the mast. It's a bit tight. I think I can scrape off some mor thickness of the epoxy, but how tight should it fit?

She's looking great and you'll soon be be on the water. Exciting times.

As for the mast step, it should not have any slop.


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No slop is one thing, but too tight can be pretty bad. You don't want to fight to get the mast out. You could be floating, standing in the skinny part and cursing like mad. If you're un stepping because of some urgent, weather related need, a tight fit is NOT what you want.


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Doesn't the mast always look tall on the GIS, and then you have another 1/3 added with the yard!

Originally Posted by davlafont

No slop is one thing, but too tight can be pretty bad. You don't want to fight to get the mast out. You could be floating, standing in the skinny part and cursing like mad. If you're un stepping because of some urgent, weather related need, a tight fit is NOT what you want.

I second this. Mine's a little snug in the step area and it's a pain sometimes to pull it out, it takes a careful bit of wiggling. It could be trimmed down. But too much slop, and it wallows in calmer air and swings around and bangs and chafes and is annoying.

Fine line, but you can always use a wedge.