canoe registration question

[Tim_T]

About five years ago I purchased a 15 foot coleman canoe to paddle around in on small lakes and am now wanting to take it to some rivers, but without the hassle of using shuttles. I purchased a small trolling motor for it and realize I have to get it licensed because of using the trolling motor.

The canoe was bought used from an individual and I has never been licensed, has no papers and no VIN. What is the process to get it licensed? Has anyone else had to go through this? I went to the County Clerks office recently and they had me ill out a bunch of papers and mail them to Frankfort. When the papers were returned a couple of days ago,a note said that Frankfort didn't deal with issuing VIN's for boats. Now I am back to square one and don't want to sit at the County Clerks office only for them to tell me the wrong thing.

[the_donger]

Cut and paste the following link.

http://fw.ky.gov/navigation.asp?cid=200

This is the "E-Mail our Information Center" link on the KDFWR site and they are pretty good at answering quickly and fully.

O.K. I just called 800-858-1549, which is the 800 number for KDFWR and they said you have to call 502-564-3298 in order to get a VIN for your canoe.

[smalleychaser]

I ran into about the same situation a couple years ago on a 2-man I had got from a buddie, who got from some old guys family when he passed. It had never been licensed. I found the serial number etched in the boat and took a piece of paper and laid it over the serial number and with a pencile made an impression of the number. I took it to the fayette county clerks office and they issued me a title and registration. Don't know if you can do that where you're at but thats what it took for me.

[ChampioNinKY]

Hey Tim you should be able to contact Coleman and get a statement of origin if you have find the serial number.

Jerry