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        Harmonised craft registration
        
        River Medway registration
        
        Anglian registration
        
        Royal Military Canal registration
        
        River Thames registration
        
        Further information

Craft registration and boat licensing

How to register your boat, application forms and tariffs.

What do we do with the income?

We spend the money we get from craft registration on improving and maintaining our waterways and lock structures. We also maintain facilities such as sewage disposal, water points and electricity charging points.

Every vessel on the waterways must display a valid craft registration certificate and registration number at all times.

Harmonised craft registration

A single craft registration scheme will be simpler, clearer, fairer and easier to understand.
Craft registration - River Medway

Information about registering a boat on the River Medway.
Craft registration - Anglian region

Information about registering a boat on the Rivers Great Ouse, Nene, Stour, Ancholme, Welland and Glen.
Craft registration - Royal Military Canal

Information about registering a boat on the Royal Military Canal.
Craft registration - River Thames

Information about registering a boat on the non-tidal River Thames.
Further information

Details of our reciprocal visitor licence and the British Waterways Gold Licence.

Craft registration and boat licensing

What do we do with the income?

Harmonised craft registration

Craft registration - River Medway

Craft registration - Anglian region

Craft registration - Royal Military Canal

Craft registration - River Thames

Further information

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