General Outdoor Discussion
Wisconsin Boat Registration.
When I renewed my snowmobile everything seemed fine, until 2 years later someone else with the same kind of snowmobile I own tried to renew their snowmobile, only to find out I had renewed it for them! Apparently the person at the DNR service station entered the wrong serial number for my snowmobile and it was off by like 1 digit. I took a picture of it, sent it to the DNR, and they re-registered my snowmobile. But not before I got an invoice saying I owed the 20 dollar renewal fee! I proceeded to call them up and get that all straightened out as well.
Funny I rode my snowmobile illegally for 2 years without knowing!
I can see that happening. I found out that stuff does not get removed all the time. Not a boat, but I had an ATV that I sold and it was still showing up in my registered vehicles on the site. I had to call the DNR and have them remove it, you can't do it yourself. I was told that's a good thing to do either way, not that someone gets hurt and they try to link it back to you yet even though you no longer own it.
So I get my notice in the mail to renew my boat registration, go to the Go Wild site and do the renewal. Tags come in a reasonable amount of the time and I think all is well. Today I go to put the new stickers on the boat and the registration numbers don't match. Call the DNR and find out I renewed a boat that was destroyed by five over 18 years ago. DNR said I could get a refund and I have resubmitted my registration for my current boat. In the meantime I need to carry around a 8 X 11 sheet of paper.
Lesson learned check to make sure you are renewing the correct vehicle.
Raise the flag, almost two months after I mailed in my boat renewal, my stickers have arrivied !!! Good thing it's my secondary craft, little 12 footer. Got two years left on my main fishing boat, maybe they will have it figured out by then. Was very poor timing for the start up of a new system, DNR is a master of that..........