It's the same all over Australia.

UK driving license: GBP 24 lasts 70 years.
Trailers don't need.
Boats don't need.

Same pretty much everywhere else too.

Drink some tap water, you'll feel better.

Also you have to have a licence for a snake on a kayak or canoe "what the"

Im not sure thats right. A boat only needs to be licensed if its primary source of propulsion is a motor. I would have thought a Kayak would be exempt..


EDIT
Actually i just double checked, and the rule is the moment you put a motor (even electric) on a kayak it must be registered. That is just stupid

jbshack said...

Also you have to have a licence for a snake on a kayak or canoe "what the"

Im not sure thats right. A boat only needs to be licensed if its primary source of propulsion is a motor. I would have thought a Kayak would be exempt..


EDIT
Actually i just double checked, and the rule is the moment you put a motor (even electric) on a kayak it must be registered. That is just stupid

I think it goes so far as to say if it is 'capable' of being powered it needs a license, technically it not matter whether your kayak actually has an electric motor fitted or not. Though you would have to be an arse to enforce that law to the letter on a kayak or canoe.

That sucks, I though my chully bun was exempt from rego due to being under 3.1m and running a 5hp. It seems not
www.transport.wa.gov.au/imarine/19093.asp
Bloody pirates.

GypsyDrifter said...

Licence this Licence that...
Bl@@dy stuffing ell...

4 boats
4 trailers
1 bike
5 cars
2 drivers
2 fishing
2 skippers

and I just found out if I want a 2.7 tender with an outboard on it..
I have to licence that too....

I think I will move, too,??? Some where else
Sodding Western Australia

Sorry vent over ...and please I know we have a Sh@te load of toys

Good God Gyps I am impressed with that Harem

it gets worse GD, in WA if it has an engine mount it must be registered for use in surveyed?waters but in order to register it you need to supply engine details including a serial number, which must be sighted to fill out the paperwork. so if your new kayak has a mount and you have no engine its gonna get hard.
I turned up for registration with a yamaha 6hp engine block only ,but since it had a serial number on they reluctently passed it

myusernam said...

FlySurfer said...
It's the same all over Australia.

UK driving license: GBP 24 lasts 70 years.
Trailers don't need.
Boats don't need.

Same pretty much everywhere else too.

Drink some tap water, you'll feel better.

oh no it isn't!
NT. no boat license, so no alchohol limit whilst driving boat.
Can drive car with beer in hand, so long as you are below limit (now .05 but was .08) and not within x distance of pub

You cannot operate a vessel or vehicle while over 0.05 BAV in the NT, stated but perhaps not clearly enough in the safety reg's and guide. It is the same rule which means that you can get done for riding a pushbike while drunk or even a wheelchair, mob' scooter.

Mr Hodges who admitted consuming 10 large glasses of wine, recorded a blood-alcohol reading of 0.209.
Advertisement

He had "taken offence" at some police allegations particularly the categorisation of his scooter as a vehicle, saying "on this occasion, the wheelchair was my legs [and] as my legs, it was the only way I could get home".

Mr Hodges was disqualified from driving for 18 months and sentenced to four months in jail, suspended for two years.

Read more: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/elderly-man-nabbed-drink-driving-on-motorised-wheelchair-20130416-2hx8b.html

I don't have time to find the relevent NT News stories but they're regular enough.

That all being said, you can most likely get away with it because there are so few water police BUT if you do get breathalysed while operate a vessel you will be charged, even like a bloke who was done while still at the ramp. However you can allow your 6year old to drive your unregistered 800hp big white boat while supervised. Ah the NT I luv it.

Now back to the OP. I feel for the rego/license hassles but try the same game when all your toys are in different states. Bring on the real federation and stop this state based rubbish.

myusernam said...
i suspected I might have been speaking shxt! oh well, got away with it then!

No worries you'd fit in like a glove in the NT!!

I received a letter from the department of transport that as part of my mooring license I now have to pay a certified inspector to make sure the mooring is up to scratch. The crew at the DOT office must have shares with the listed contractors I reckon.

More cash out.

get a pushbike with a motor on it...they can do 80 klm / hr and no licence needed

GypsyDrifter said...

Licence this Licence that...
Bl@@dy stuffing ell...

4 boats
4 trailers
1 bike
5 cars
2 drivers
2 fishing
2 skippers

and I just found out if I want a 2.7 tender with an outboard on it..
I have to licence that too....

I think I will move, too,??? Some where else
Sodding Western Australia

Sorry vent over ...and please I know we have a Sh@te load of toys

register one trailer and just swap the number plates onto another one if you want to use it, guy at works been doing it for years he's got 3 car trailers and only one is registered but uses them all by swapping the number plates after all a trailer is a trailer

beastsurf said...
I received a letter from the department of transport that as part of my mooring license I now have to pay a certified inspector to make sure the mooring is up to scratch. The crew at the DOT office must have shares with the listed contractors I reckon.

More cash out.

This makes me think...hmm
when we bought this home we had the option to buy the jetty that the guy from this house owned....
we didn't as the water (boat ramp) is 2 houses away and you can drop your boat in and drive the car trailer home

I wonder what that license would have cost me....as I really nearly bought the jetty