Erronous SAMSA report

[Buckles]

Hey Norkie at least you dont need the Misinsi (unless it is private water) or any other local authority boat registration anymore - the COF is now the only "legal" boat registration for all waters in SA and it replaces all local authority regsitrations. Unless a water is a private water they may not have a local authority registration. Check in your COC training manual and you will see that you are no longer permitted to have any other registration number on your boat except the COF one. Of course no one has told the local authorities this yet so the still try enfoce it, but I now carry the regulations from SAMSA in my boat so when they try I throw the "book" at them..very satisfying ...it wil probably take some time for all local authorities to update their regulations to align to the national ones...so for the mean time expect arguments with them! I have however checked and the national regs override the local ones. The national fees taken for COF are meant to be distributed to all the local authorities to replace the revenue they generate from local registrations...personally I think there is no chance of this actually happening!