There's laws and there's laws and there's laws and there's laws, all designed to prevent us from hurting ourselves.

If you want to register the boat there will be certain compliance regulations which will have more to do with revenue collection than real boating safety. Check with your state's transport office.

If you want to do it, just do it. The surfers have been doing it forever and the base jumpers are doing it daily.

No offence meant, just responding on the forum, but if you really are a stoned pirate, why did you ask the question? Maybe you are just stoned.

Hi Stoned

I have built my last four or five (I think it's five) boats and there in no regulation apart from the one where you don't want to kill yourself with a badly built boat. If you intend to race a yacht though, then it is a different matter, and the boat will need to comply to a swag of regulations.

My latest creation can be viewed at www.jethrowsicpages.blogspot.com and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

stonedpirate said...


WA is a police state and they target stoned pirates.

Nah, surely not. I thought Qld was the only state with that claim to infamy.

when i registered mine in WA the big problem was that the nearest place to get a HIN fitted was 600kms away. I booked a time and arrived at the boat shop and they insisted that the plates had to be riveted on (boat is wood) I insisted on screws and silicon to seal the holes.
Problem I had was that the boat had an ouboard motor mount which meant it had to be registered. BUT I had no outboard motorand no modeland ID number for an outboard, so the computer wouldnt register the boat. in the end a mate gave me a engine block from a wrecked outboard. I showed them the engine no on the block and they were happy with that.
Basically , they didnt want to see plans, nor how it had been built, they wanted my money