Photo ID Required ??

carguy · 09-28-2007, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Acres per Second

Nope.

Nope.

Green Mountain coffee works for me! Yer going to kick yourself, I'll bet!

Close, but my guess would have been more recent than that.

Not NH Dept of Safety—at least not the obvious (huge) lettering on the sides of the old patrol boats, which were all inboards. Now I'm wondering if those old patrol boats might be the very same inboard patrol boats we see today?

Can they be 25 years old?

Answer:

Those old ticket-distributers were in "Public Utilities Commission"-labeled boats.

If carguy had been on-line lately, he would have gotten it!

carguy is right: non-motorized sailboats were free of registration; however, those later plates were aluminum, not steel.

(And sorry about my usual off-course thread meanderings).

Carguy was sent an email that he had been quoted on this thread. Back in the 1950's and early 1960's, The New Hampshire Department of Public Utilities operated the "Patrol Boats". The boats were steel hulled 'Steelcrafts' ainted white with blue decks. They only had two or three of them on the whole lake at that time. Later in the 1960's the Department of Safety took over the operation. They used black lapstrake hulled Century Ravens for the patrol boats. They were moored in a boathouse in the Weirs Cannel just north of Channel Marine.

Airwaves · 09-28-2007, 11:33 PM

Carguy wrote:

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Back then a motorized boat was issued a steel license plate instead of the bow number with decal...."

I still have metal NH license plates that used to be attached to the boat instead of bow numbers, as a matter of fact, one year NH issued a decal that covered the entire plate of our sailboat and called that the registration!

I still have that decal over the plate for those of you who don't believe me.