well sounds like you got a pproblem and since I am not sure of AZ law seems like step one is to document via sworn statements back to the last registered owner both thye HIN record and the Reg # trail.
There is suppoosed to be a hidden HIN but unless they know where so can observe it with a small hole and a dental mirror they will tear it apart.
my opinion take the boat baack and get your money back. take the police with threaten filing fraud charge, consider small cllaims and get another
boat and chyeck this stuff before you pay.
I sold a boat that I bought back 15 years later and the title had never been transfered though it went thru 3 "owners In 3 other states. they just put on numbers from a boat they already had
when I went to register I found I still ownhed it. Might have been real problem if they had hit somebody with it and it tracked back to me as registered owner for damages.
So my advice, when you buy a used boat have the seller come with you to the tax office or wherever you register to complete the sale ( make paymenht there)
----- arizonarides2far <jaimeharrison@ymail.com> wrote:
> I bought a boat a few months back. The guy sold it to me for one of his friends, and the next week sold me an outboard johnson 75. I was TOLD this was an 1986 challenger 15'. Everything is accurate except the year. Come to find out the hull vin number has been tampered with and missing the last 3 out of 12 numbers. The state registration numbers are still showing it is registered to someone totally different than who I bought it from. BUT NOT STOLEN. The state sticker however matches the registration rec i got when i bought the boat. You would think the previous owner ( that i got the boat from) was lazy and because he had a similaur boat and didnt want to pay for two boats being registered so he just put the registration sticker on the older boat. The marine police here are telling me that because the registration paper says its an 86 even though the marine poilce dept can pull up the previous owner and what the boats real year is, the marine poilceofficer wants to start taking things off the boat and cutting to find the 2nd hull vin number. How can i not damage the boat. and still get it registered? I am so frustrated at all this back and forth. its like ok they dont want to except that its an 80 but that is an 86 and damage my good solid boat, and make it to where i have to do major repairs to MAYBE find a 2nd number. when it probably doesnt have one anyways, because it was made before 84. i have done so much research on the challenger boats till I am blue in the face. I am finding alot of informatiopn but nothing that is usefull just a bunch of dead ends.
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