Antique registration for Seacrafts and whaler
 

I did not have any issues other than telling them that it is still powered by outboards...it depends on the lady working the counter..the lady had to get a supervisor to override it for me...

I was just talking to a friend who has an 84 Mako 25'. He told me that he walked into the local tax/hsmv office and asked for the antique registration, because of its age. He didn't remember exactly what he paid, but he handed the lady a five dollar bill and got change back. I'll have to remember that for next year.

According to the tax collector here in Okaloosa County, Florida, the requirement for an original-type power-plant only refers to I/O or inboard vessels, and does not apply to vessels originally manufactured to use outboard motors, because outboards are not manufactured with a power-plant; Those are added later by the dealer.

In other words, if you converted from inboard or I/O to outboard, you're out of luck. If you converted from gas to diesel or vice versa, same thing.

I paid a little less than $10 for two years of registration.

Just did my '78 20SF today. $4.75 a year ! Thanks for the info...

Hey Gents, one more thing - on the FL form (87243) there's a place for a surveyors signature. Any way around this?

Seems like you ditch the form and let tax office handle it.

They didn't require a Marine surveyor signature, just the owners sig. They asked if it was original power and I said "yep, an outboard" 😉. Good to go....

Yeah - I love old school. $4.75. I'm looking for some old cars next. Thanks for all the feedback.

I took my tag that I bought, to the tag office, handed it to the woman at the counter and said I want to put this on my car. She looked at me funny and said, why is it so heavy? I said, its steel. After she talked to the supervisor, she got the form that I needed and after about a week, done.

Dang Ron now thats cool, you even have an original Indian River tag....;)

I remember when in High School between myself, mom & dads tag
were 61D-54. 61D-55, 61D-56
My dads motorcycle was 61-5

61 was Flagler County... :D