Thread: MO rules for Registration #s?

The law does say block lettering but doesn't say anything about font. I would also say that as long as it is on there in the right size and legible you probably wont have any issues that's my opinion. Here's a web site to look at

https://www.boatus.com/boatgraphics/...p?t=RegNumbers

Call the Highway Patrol and ask them how much the ticket would be.

You'll see different fonts used. Make sure letter color contrasts against the hull color so they are easily seen.

I ordered my numbers off the internet. They had many different fonts and colots. I just made sure I used 3" size. I made them a color with a contrasting shadow behind them and had no problem with Conservation Dept. or Water Patrol personnel. Just make sure they are easily visible.

Make sure you don't have a bolt from rod holder through the letters too. Got stopped for that one last summer. You could still read the numbers plainly but didn't like the bolts through the numbers. Had to fix that. No ticket for it. I got new numbers and put them in front of old numbers. Have been checked by water patrol before and they never said anything. Oh well. Just bought ours at Wal Mart. Nothing fancy.

I have 3" with a slight slant been checked several times and nothing ever said. I got mine done at D & M Sign Co in Clinton, on Hwy 7, they have all kinds of style a color if there still open that has been 10 years or plus.

I got in trouble with the Conservation department at Mark Twain lake. I had red/white and blue numbers in 3" block. Said he couldn't read my red numbers with his binoculars. Didn't matter that I had the family and kids with me, chewed me out and said that if I brought the boat back with out changing the numbers he would write me up. I was being polite so I didn't know why he was so upset over the numbers?

I had the same thing happen at Thomas Hill once. Lake Patrol pulled me over because he couldn't read my numbers with his binoculars. Didn't give me a ticket but just a warning. My numbers were the right color just not far enough apart. He said I would get a ticket the next time he caught me. He was fairly polite and he was right, I just put the #'s next to each other without much separation. It was a brand new Skeeter that I had only had for 2 weeks, I sure hated scraping those #'s off but I did that day and the next day I saw him looking at me again with his bino's.