Thankfully! Something that New York hasn't taxed or regulated to death yet!

According to http://www.dmv.org/ny-new-york/boat-registration.php , we NY'ers do not have to register our kayaks or "non motorized" canoes. I can only imagine what will happen when (and I do believe it's a when, with the rate our governments are going) we are required to register our boats. My Subaru Baja ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Baja ) drove the folks down at the DMV crazy when I tried to register it, since they didn't know what to classify it as; they ended up calling it a truck, though most folks who drive pick-ups would disagree wholeheartedly. If I tried to register my SoF, I can only imagine the conversation:

"What do you mean, you built it?" ... "Well, stick this number on the hull" ... "Um, I have no idea what you're supposed to do when you reskin it. You mean the hull isn't permanent? Stick it on the permanent part" ... "C'mon, you've got to have a part of the boat that's actually permanent. You can't take the whole thing apart, really..."

"Whatever... just give us the money..."