Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
The ones I flew had a boat rego on the floats and I had to have a boat license. Don’t know what the rules are now but I don’t see boat regos on them anymore.
Nothing has changed: you are supposed to have a boat rego and a boat license to operate any "watercraft" with an engine in most states of Oz - the eastern ones, anyway - but whether or not you need to show either and what hoops you have to jump through varies from state to state, since each state is responsible for it's own. eg. in Victoria they're issued by Vicroads - the traffic people. Makes sense, don't it??
In practice, it seems to be one of those things where, if you're not a weekend fisho or roaring around on a Jetski, because there are so many different bureaucracies involved, so long as you don't screw up nobody's going to bother you either way.