Most Godawful experience.

[BaldTexan]

I moved here from Oklahoma last year. Dust bowl was many decades ago. Oklahoma actually has about the same average rainfall we have here....and there is free up close viewing of tornados and tennisball size hail! By far the best state I ever lived in as far as taxing and less fees for everything....and I could go to a tax agency for title work, registration, and a drivers license and be out in less than 15 minutes for 1/4 of what I payed here. 2 vehicles and a ODL = $540. Privatization compared to state workers is hands down a million times more efficient. Hell. Even the state income tax was less than half what it is here!the west coast in general has the most inefficient benefit per tax dollar I've experienced....but I'm not moving back! I still like most of the people I've met and you just can't beat the nature opportunities here.


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[TimberTodd]

I'm creating a http://www.gofundme.com/ page so we can get plumbertom out of Godawful Oregon and back to either California or Oklahoma.

As everyday passes plumbertom suffers more and more in the state of Oregon. So please help if you can, it won't only help him, but all of us in the state!





JK :bleh: :thumb:

Good luck with your woes Tom.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[plumbertom]

Saying that you prefer a dust bowl like Oklahoma to Oregon is on the edge of being insulting. Oregon is not a business or retirement friendly state, but I still love it here.

Don't be so thin skinned. One of the reasons I would have preferred Oklahoma is I have a lot of family there. But my children and grandchildren live here in Or.and in SoCal and for me that takes precedence over all other considerations.

 

[plumbertom]

I'm creating a http://www.gofundme.com/ page so we can get plumbertom out of Godawful Oregon and back to either California or Oklahoma.

As everyday passes plumbertom suffers more and more in the state of Oregon. So please help if you can, it won't only help him, but all of us in the state!





JK :bleh: :thumb:

Good luck with your woes Tom.

Be sure and let me know when it gets up around $50K mark. That's about what it would take just to get out of here.

 

[plumbertom]

Back to the original post.
After abandoning all efforts to get my boat transferred on my own, I went to a local marine agency and paid them to do it.
They gave me a Temporary operating permit when I paid them the costs and fees.
Seems as though it will be between 8 and 10 months before I receive my Oregon title, ID numbers and stickers.
Now I just need to either revive the deep cycle battery, if it will, or find the money for a new battery.

 

[rogerdodger]

Back to the original post.
After abandoning all efforts to get my boat transferred on my own, I went to a local marine agency and paid them to do it.
They gave me a Temporary operating permit when I paid them the costs and fees.
Seems as though it will be between 8 and 10 months before I receive my Oregon title, ID numbers and stickers.
Now I just need to either revive the deep cycle battery, if it will, or find the money for a new battery.

I am sorry that you had so much difficulty, hopefully karma will balance things out for you with some excellent fishing luck.

My experience with boat licensing stuff has been the exact opposite since moving back to Oregon, towing our PB here from AZ in 2011, a deputy met us in Roseburg on our way to Florence for the HID verification and length measurement, setting that up was easy and we avoided making a special trip to have it done later in Eugene. I downloaded the form, mailed stuff in, stickers and reg. came in a couple weeks...my Hobie in 2013 was even easy despite not having a manufacturers document plus the HID is put on them with an engraving tool, looks goofy but I e-mailed an image of the ID number and had a temp reg printed immediately and stickers in a week....early in May, I realized that I lost the reg. card for the Hobie while drying it after I took an unplanned swim in the Umpqua back in March, I contacted the Marine Board by e-mail, and they e-mailed me a temp, asked me to send $10 to the attention of the person I had contacted and the replacement reg card came in about 2 weeks....cheers, roger

 

[plumbertom]

I am sorry that you had so much difficulty, hopefully karma will balance things out for you with some excellent fishing luck.

My experience with boat licensing stuff has been the exact opposite since moving back to Oregon, towing our PB here from AZ in 2011, a deputy met us in Roseburg on our way to Florence for the HID verification and length measurement, setting that up was easy and we avoided making a special trip to have it done later in Eugene. I downloaded the form, mailed stuff in, stickers and reg. came in a couple weeks...my Hobie in 2013 was even easy despite not having a manufacturers document plus the HID is put on them with an engraving tool, looks goofy but I e-mailed an image of the ID number and had a temp reg printed immediately and stickers in a week....early in May, I realized that I lost the reg. card for the Hobie while drying it after I took an unplanned swim in the Umpqua back in March, I contacted the Marine Board by e-mail, and they e-mailed me a temp, asked me to send $10 to the attention of the person I had contacted and the replacement reg card came in about 2 weeks....cheers, roger

Do you use a trolling motor on your Hobie? Is that why you registered it?

 

[rogerdodger]

Do you use a trolling motor on your Hobie? Is that why you registered it?

exactly, here is a picture of it that I posted back in 2013 when I got things all rigged on my PA12, it slides into a rod mount molded into the hull, I can pull it out and lay on the back with one hand when I want it out of the way...the motor is good for trolling but not good for covering distance on the water, I only use it for 2 rod trout/kokanee trolling plus some tidewater salmon trolling...plus the reg. includes invasive species so I don't need that separately. $41 every 2 years.

 

[plumbertom]

exactly, here is a picture of it that I posted back in 2013 when I got things all rigged on my PA12, it slides into a rod mount molded into the hull, I can pull it out and lay on the back with one hand when I want it out of the way...the motor is good for trolling but not good for covering distance on the water, I only use it for 2 rod trout/kokanee trolling plus some tidewater salmon trolling...plus the reg. includes invasive species so I don't need that separately. $41 every 2 years.

That's an interesting way to rig it. That cross at the bottom is just to brace against the hull, correct? How many Lbs thrust are you running? I have a trolling motor with 40 lbs. Did you shorten the shaft to fit your hull?

 

[rogerdodger]

That's an interesting way to rig it. That cross at the bottom is just to brace against the hull, correct? How many Lbs thrust are you running? I have a trolling motor with 40 lbs. Did you shorten the shaft to fit your hull?

that is a 35# thrust. I shortened the shaft with a hacksaw- it is easy to remove the control tops of Minn Kotas and swap them from motor-to-motor or cut the shaft and reinstall them.

you are correct, the Tee rests against the hull and there is a slight amount of pressure/flex that keeps it in place...here is another picture of mine:

this is the original video that I got the idea from and then modified to run the motor shaft down the PCV as I am a big fan of occam's razor: simpler is better-

 

[hobster]

Wow, how'd i miss this thread? Quite entertaining fo sho.

 

[TTFishon]

Try having a CDL and sleep apnea. $350 bucks a year to keep that going. Ouch!!! lol