just the vin worked for me here in MN. and the sled was even a ND sled before i got it. Took 5 min, on the otherhand if your local DMV has the speacial ed workforce like hibbing you will be there forever if you get one of those people 2 hours to get a boat registered this summer. the idiots were going to give me a title for a 12ft boat than they had to figure out how to cancel that and give me the right registration!