MARK IT
Permanently mark or engrave your boat, your trailer, all your equipment, electronics and personal items which you use regularly on your boat with your vessels hull identification number (HIN) and/or your driver's license number. Since 1972, your boat will already have a HIN on the transom. In 1984 a regulation was passed which requires the HIN number to also be permanently attached in a second unexposed location
More and more boats (an estimated 18,000,000), trailers, equipment, electronics and personal items are stolen each year. Most of these crimes are committed by amateurs who, when tempted with an easy opportunity, can't resist the temptation.