Protect it

Registration and Loss Reporting are FREE. There is no charge for these services.

boatfax – The only dedicated cross market marine registration database in existence. And it’s International. We’re keeping a tag on it so you can be more confident about protecting your purchase.

boatfax operates a policy of data verification. All vessel HIN, registration and other identification numbers are checked and verified against manufacturer’s information. If information is incorrectly entered into boatfax registry, we will contact you to confirm the information prior to this becoming active within the database register. If an item is reported as Lost or Stolen, the details of this entry will be verified and the submitter of the report will be contacted to confirm the entry.

Once you own it – protect it - FREE. Your boat details will be confidentially retained in the secure register. Registration also protects you from fraudulent cloning - HULL ID Number copying.

If you are now the new owner of a boat – you can register your details against your boat – FREE. All ownership transfers are carefully validated and previous owners (registered on boatfax) are contacted for confirmation of the transfer. Once confirmation has been received from the previous owner the information record will be updated.

The new owner of the boat should enter their details in the register. boatfax will contact the previous owner to verify the change of ownership.

When you enter the boat details – boatfax will automatically check its database to see if the details match an existing registration. If it does, you will be advised. Otherwise enter the details as a new registration. It’s easy – we’ll just step you through the process.

New entries may take up to 72 hours to become active, whilst data is being validated.

If you wish to be alerted of any searches carried out against details matching your boat, we can automatically advise this to you by email. For this service click the “Search Alert” box when registering your boat details with boatfax.