Florida, like most states, requires boat registration stickers or decals with the numbers and letters of the boat displayed on the bow of the boat. The validation sticker (year sticker) appears on the port side of the boat.
Florida requires 3″ tall block letter compliant numbers, and they must contrast with the hull color. So if you have a dark hull, you’ll choose light colors like white, yellow, silver, silver carbon, orange. But if you have a light hull, you can choose any color of blue, red, green, orange, dark carbon fiber, silver or black. You can get an idea of what colors will go with what hull with this article on contrasting boat registration stickers with your hull colors.
The typeface you’ll choose should be a block typeface (san serif) and should not contain gradients, italics, script fonts. Florida, like all other states requires block type registration numbers.
We make custom boat registration stickers at $2 per number, or a set of your whole boat registration number sequence for $16.95! Your Florida numbers will be a series of letters and numbers 8 letters in length. They are, when produced, no longer than 22.5″ inches wide x 3″ tall for the whole set of stickers. AND they come affixed to a backing with a 2 part sticker process, you’ll peel the back off, press onto your boat then peel the top layer off for perfectly aligned numbers and letters. You will apply them in one go, and then the other side of the boat after that. They go on in under one minute per side!
Place your Florida Boat Registration stickers at the bow, as far forward as you are able to and below the rail. Choose a reasonably flat spot (the decals will flex and stretch over a curve if you need them to) and apply them on a calm day (not a windy day!) or in a protected area.
