Ownership Transfer
Support for transferring an existing federally registered vessel.
Federal Documentation
Canadian vessel registry services
HarbourClose prepares eligible Transport Canada vessel registration filings and provides a complete quote before work begins.
Federal Registry Services
First Registration
Organize the vessel information and documents required for a first registration request.
Name or Port Change
Coordinate the documents needed for an eligible registered vessel name or port change.
Replacement Certificate
Prepare a request for an unavailable, lost, or damaged registration certificate.
Close Registration
Prepare a request to close an eligible Canadian vessel registration.
Deletion Certificate
Request proof that an eligible Canadian vessel registration has been closed.
Renewal
Prepare a renewal request and confirm the current registry information.
Marine Mortgage Discharge
Organize a mortgage discharge request for an eligible vessel in the Canadian Register of Vessels.
Registry Transcript
Order the current registry entries recorded against a vessel's Official Number.
Historical Research
Request older vessel registry information when a current transcript is not enough.
Death of a Registered Owner
Screen an uncontested executor, administrator, or surviving-joint-owner transmission before quoting additional work.
Designed for Registered Pleasure Craft
This service is intentionally limited to common pleasure-craft filings in the Canadian Register of Vessels. Complex or commercial matters require separate review.
Covered by this file
- Pleasure craft in the Canadian Register of Vessels
- First registration and ordinary ownership transfers
- Renewal, replacement certificates, and name or port changes
- Registration closure, deletion certificates, and marine mortgage discharge
- Registry transcripts and historical research
- Uncontested death transmissions after HarbourClose staff review
- Eligible individual, corporate, and Indigenous Band owners
Outside the current scope
- Pleasure Craft Licence applications or transfers, which use a separate service
- Small Commercial Vessel Register, government vessels, barges, or commercial river rafts
- Bareboat charter registry, vessels under construction, or provisional registration
- New mortgages, mortgage transfers, court sales, bankruptcy, contested estates, or other disputed title cases
How Federal Documentation works
The file keeps the vessel facts, uploaded records, quote, and submission process organized from the first request onward.
1.Tell us what you need
Choose the registry service and provide the vessel facts you already have.
2.Upload your documents
Keep the available ownership and registry records together in a private HarbourClose file.
3.Review the quote
HarbourClose reviews the request and shows the service fee and applicable charges before starting.
4.We prepare the filing
After confirmation, staff organize the submission package and manage the filing workflow.
What to have ready
Begin with the vessel’s year, make, model, HIN, official number or current registry information, the service requested, and any ownership or registry documents already available.
- Vessel details
- Current registry records
- Ownership documents
- Requested filing service
Missing information can be identified during staff review before the quote is confirmed.
Licence or registration?
A Pleasure Craft Licence identifies a licensed pleasure craft but is not proof of ownership. Federally registered vessels use Canadian vessel registry processes instead of a PCL change.
Pleasure Craft Licence
HarbourClose offers a separate $35 PCL Transfer Service for eligible Basic Documents files.
Federal registration
Use Federal Documentation for Canadian Register of Vessels services.
Tell us which registry service you need
HarbourClose reviews the request and provides the quote before staff begin filing preparation.