Up in the great white north here you don't need to register a
dinghy that has less than 10 hp, you can but it's optional. Ours isn't. Lately I've seen a bunch of dinks like ours (8 feet, 3.5 hp outboard) sporting Canadian licence numbers. One guy had the same licence number on the dink as on the sailboat. Was wondering why they are doing this and I am suspecting that possibly it is a requirement on the US side of the
Great Lakes that a
dinghy has to have a licence number on it? If so does that requirement apply to a foreign vessel?
We were planning on crossing
Lake Ontario this summer to
cruise the US side and don't want to upset the LEOs in
New York State. We are also planning a trip south to the
Bahamas for the
winter so it would be good to know in advance what
regulations apply along the way.