![]() Of the boats listed, Monark offers familiar boat hull types and designs including pontoon. Higher performance models now listed come rigged with motors up to 90 horsepower, while smaller more functional models may have as low as 70 horsepower engines (although the average power size is 80 HP). Monark boats for sale on Boat Trader are offered at a swath of prices, valued from $4,999 on the bargain side of the spectrum all the way up to $13,900 for the biggest, most advanced boats. The oldest model listed is a classic boat built in 1973 and the newest model year of 2005. Boat Trader currently has 8 Monark boats for sale, including 1 new vessels and 7 used boats listed by both individual owners and professional yacht brokers and boat dealerships mainly in United States. I'm just playing Devil's advocate.Monark is a boat builder in the marine industry that offers boats for sale in a range of sizes on Boat Trader, with the smallest current boat listed at 15 feet in length, to the longest vessel measuring in at 24 feet, and an average length of 19.52 feet. Obviously I'm not familiar with laws back east, much less with the boat under discussion. So as long as the owners stayed away from the waters where tourists like to blast around drunk and the law likes to catch them at it, it's a pretty safe bet no one would ever have noticed (or cared) that they were fishing the backwaters using an unregistered boat with a trolling motor on it. The California DMV says boats propelled by oars or paddles (and presumably poles.) don't have to be registered, regardless of size. I don't know how things are on the east coast, but out here I wouldn't be at all surprised to run into an old aluminum Jon boat that's been flying under the legal radar for thirty or forty years. Or any indication that the capacity tag is any newer than the rest of the boat. Is there any guarantee that boat was built after 1973? It looks pretty weathered and well-used, and I don't see a bright spot where anything was removed from the transom. It's very possible the previous owner doesn't actually own the boat, because it's still registered in the name of someone else. One usually goes hand in hand with the other, so someone is blowing smoke up someone's butt. Lastly, if the previous owner never registered the boat, he still had to do a title transfer. My understanding of MA boat registration requirements is all motorized boats, except USCG documented, must be registered, unless it's a visiting boat (out of state registry). If you get anything other then "sure, here they are" walk away. If you want to be safe, ask for a title and registration for the boat. This sort of thing happens all the time by folks that haven't much experience with boat registration processes. ![]() Guess who gets dragged down to the police station. Being cops at heart, they'll assume (correctly so most of the time) that it's stolen. The local sheriff or Harbor Patrol will assumed someone is trying to apply for different registration numbers or that it's stolen. Simply put, the boat looks newer then a 1973 and coupled with the lack of registration number means it'll be a real pain in the butt to get a registration or title for (you can preform a title search and file an abandoned vessel claim). Even if it was built before 1973, it would still have a registration number on it flanks. It also appears this boat has had it's registration numbers removed. ![]() What else I find suspicious, is all boats in the USA will have an affixed HIN, if built after the fall of 1973. A 3.5 HP rating, on a boat that could easily handle a 20 HP outboard suggests someone is trying to beat a rule or minimum HP law. ![]()
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