As with any good crime prevention initiative, it is essential to have your property marked as being owned by you. In the home, you can do this by engraving your driver's licence number onto your property, and the same principle applies to your boat.

Western Australia operates under the national identification system. The Department for Planning and Infrastructure's BoatCode provides a means to identify a boat using the Hull Identification Numbering System.

More information about BoatCode is on the BoatCode webpage.