Have you talked to the huy ya got it from and explained to him you need the title ??//

I called him and he said he never had a title for it.

TP&W site has a place you can find owner just have to have tx number

Personally think I'd look at another float

Only soo much you can do here.

This is really easy to do if you follow these steps.
1. Fill out a 143M form
The 143 M form is for boats that lost a title or has never had a title. The orginal owner has to do this.
2. Do a Affidavid of Facts. State in there that the boat was never titled (if this is so) only registured.
3. Do a 504 form,,,pencil tracing of the hull identification number.
4. Take the owner to TPWD office or you have to have a limited power of attorney to conduct business in the owners behalf.
5. Summit paperwork. You can also at that time file for a quick title or wait for 2-6 weeks for the title.
6. Once you have the title in hand, Fill out a 143 form, This form is a title transfer form and at that time there is a section that you check and it brings the boat into current registration.
Do not mistake a title and registration as being the same. A title shows ownership (tranferable piece of paper that is simular as a car title). Registration means that it is registured in the state of Texas for operation (decals and owners card)

If he does not have the title, you dont have the title, and no one knows who had the title last you're pretty much casting in the dark. TXPW wont issue you anything with out everyone that ever had anything to do with the boat signing an affidavit stating from what dates they had the boat and whom they got the boat from. Its all about how much they can tax someone for anything having to do with the boat. If they guy you got it from never had a title and he has a certificate of origin he had twenty days from the date of purchase to register the boat else wise interest begins to compile on the penalties for passing the 20 days. Its a head ache you dont want and there is no easy fix to it. In the long run its cheaper and faster to drop the funds on another tin boat and be done with the one yer stuck with. Having been thru the head ache and heart ache of trying to do it, its easier to get a boat with paper work than it is to jump thru the hoops that the Texas Department of Park, Over Taxation, and Wildlife has set up to keep you from getting anything done with out the paper work.

As a last resort, I would call Austin and plead my case and take what they say as the final answer.

Sounds to me like it would be cheaper to use it all you want and pay the fines for no registration later if a game warden tickets you. Maybe I'm wrong here, but if TPWD is going to be that hard-core that they need all the owners from a boat that hasn't been registered in 14 years, then they're pretty much asking for something that probably can't be done.

All that being said, often game wardens won't ticket guys in smaller, cheaper boats like that because they know you won't pay the fines if he does ticket you. No facts to back this up, just what I've heard.

Thanks guys I think I'm going to buy a new can and just start from scratch maybe take my time on this next one get a wider boat that one was a little skinny for what I'm trying to do thanks for all the help sounds like a big pain and I don't have the time to go threw all that just for a small boat I rather get a bigger one where I can put a good casting deck live well and so on in the bigger boat if yall have never looked at tinboats.net yall should check it out some of the guys on there make a $100 tin look like a $30,000 bass boat is crazy