EPIRB Registration

[Noiseworks]

Hey everyone, quick question about epirb registration. If I bought an epirb in the morning, rang ansa and registered it, will they give me a registration number to verify that i am registered with them, if perchance i am intercepted by fisheries and asked to show that my epirb is registered? Just trying to clear it up. Thanks in advance

Cheers

[peterbo3]

Ring them & find out. I seem to recall registering mine online in 2008 but I have been wrong before. I was able to confirm my boat & contact info by phone a few weeks ago after getting the "two year" letter checking that my details were still current.

[firecat150hp]

If I remember correctly you get your EP Rego as you go.

I just did my re-register and the # was the same.
I upgraded details on line and it arrived 2 days later.(the new label)

[truth stretcher]

If you register an epirb on line it allows you to print a document to show the fisheries guys should you be 'pulled up' before your sticker arrives.

[Noiseworks]

Cheers for the input people. Truth stretcher hit it on the head for me, thanks

[timeout]

Thanks you have reminded me that I have to change mine for the new boat.

[Back In Black]

Easy to get caught out with the epirb. I got a letter saying I had to reregister mine, but it came with the details for my old boat. I went to cross check the numbers against my epirb in the new boat & found it hadn't been registered at all (my mistake), so if I activated mine, they would have no idea who or what they were looking for, & if the fella who bought my old boat, now in Sydney, activated his, I would be getting calls! Its a good reminder to be right on it, as delays could cost lives.
I rang ANSA & they rectified it for me on the spot & gave me a number to write down so I could carry it on the boat until my new sticker turned up. The dealer I traded my old boat with told me they would transfer the epirb into the new owners name, but that obviously did not happen.
Tony

[dblaj1]

If you need to ring them rather than do it online, they email you something immediately to print and carry with you until the rego docs arrive in the snail mail.

[cormorant]

Shame amsa and the state registration authorities can't get together and merge a database every month for all boat registrations transferred and send a reminder to new and old boat owner about epirbs. Has to be a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run to do that rather than have a emergency response when details are wrong? Be nice if our epirb number was linked with our boat lic as well as we all probably keep it up to date.