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11-02-2017, 04:20 PM
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Senior Member
City: Memphis
Vessel Name: Ivory Lady
Vessel Model: 46 Jefferson
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 275
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Airbnb your boat?
Does anyone do this? I don't mean chartering, but just renting your boat out as a hotel? I wonder if a marina would allow that type of activity? It would be an interesting way to defray some of the ownership costs, but I can only imagine the type of damage someone could do that wasn't knowledgeable of boats/rvs.
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11-02-2017, 05:09 PM
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Valued Technical Contributor
City: Litchfield, Ct
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 6,473
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Also consider the insurance angle. Airbnb has some sort of secondary coverage if your homeowners won't cover a renter's damage. I don't know if that would work on a boat. I am sure that your boat insurance would deny coverage if damage occurred. Any commercial use is typically excluded from marine recreational insurance.
David
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11-02-2017, 06:06 PM
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Guru
City: Seabrook, Texas
Vessel Name: Small World
Vessel Model: Defever 50
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 611
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I wouldn’t do it because most people who would want to use my boat as a hotel are probably not familiar with boats and boat systems (eg holding tanks). Too much risk.
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11-02-2017, 08:50 PM
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Guru
City: Tri Cities, WA
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 4,406
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I'm with Drake.. I have far too much invested in my boat to trust it to someone who knows nothing about how things on a boat work. Maybe for a rental fee of $200,000 a night I'd feel a lot better.
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1981 Boston Whaler 13'
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11-02-2017, 09:53 PM
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Guru
City: Seabrook, Texas
Vessel Name: Small World
Vessel Model: Defever 50
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 611
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GFC
Maybe for a rental fee of $200,000 a night I'd feel a lot better.
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I may having spoken too soon. If that’s the rental rate, I might reconsider. 
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11-02-2017, 11:01 PM
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Guru
City: Columbia City, OR & Mulege, BCS
Vessel Name: Imagine
Vessel Model: Farrell 34
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 764
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It is being considered at my marina. Haven't asked if they get a cut.
I'm not interested in the idea, seems like a hassle and a risk I don't need.
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11-03-2017, 05:47 AM
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Guru
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 22,553
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In the 70's folks would fly to St Thomas with no hotel reservations , and get surprised to find out about slim pickings , way out in the woods.
Had a 45 ft Try that I would tie stern to at the sea wall, and could hotel with ease.
Today it would be really EZ with cell phones.
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11-03-2017, 08:13 AM
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Guru
City: Carefree, Arizona
Vessel Name: sunchaser V
Vessel Model: DeFever 48
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 9,606
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The concept already exists, has for a very long time - dock side chartering. Or try a different name, boat and breakfast as was started in San Francisco a few decades ago. Same idea, different name and phone or Internet access to fit with the times.
I always wondered, who fixes the head when normal on shore flushes occur with a Sealand 
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11-03-2017, 08:56 AM
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Senior Member
City: Langley BC
Vessel Name: Summer Wind
Vessel Model: Bayliner 4788
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 102
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I was on a 53 Carver in San Diego this year for $225 per night. A lady in the area has four separate boats where she is the agent for the owners. She does the advertising,meets the clients, takes the payments and cleans up the boats afterward for a percentage of the revenue. The owner makes enough in a year to pay moorage, insurance, normal maintenance and sometimes has a little left over.
I'm sure there are versions of this set up everywhere
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11-03-2017, 10:12 AM
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Guru
City: Under a boat, in a marina in the San Francisco Bay
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 574
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A buddy of mine tried it with his 42' trawler. The marina caught on and made him stop. So he quit Airbnb and did it on the sly.
The marina booted him out a few months ago.
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11-03-2017, 11:37 AM
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Guru
City: South Florida
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 1,003
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Go to the AirBnB site and search Key West. Lots of boats there in ABnB, one guy even has a tent camping setup on a Catamaran on the hook
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11-03-2017, 12:32 PM
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Guru
City: Punta Gorda, fl
Vessel Name: Escapade
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 37 2002
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 1,231
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AirBnB is very popular in Europe. With a good security deposit you mitigate some of the risk. Be selective who you accept. Good money stream for those that always say they are going to us their boats but never do. Good way to keep the systems working. 
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11-03-2017, 12:43 PM
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Guru
City: Belgium
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 2,863
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It's a great idea that has been becoming more popular. For you it depends if your boat is a personal thing that's one of the family, or just a recreational toy, or perhaps you have a background running charters and consider it a business.
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11-04-2017, 02:40 PM
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Guru
City: Sharon, Ma
Vessel Name: Slow Lane
Vessel Model: 2005 Silverton 35 Motoryacht
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 1,167
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No way. Im not letting a stranger on my boat. I dont need the money that bad.
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2005 Silverton 35 Motoryacht
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11-04-2017, 03:33 PM
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Guru
City: Ft Pierce
Vessel Name: Sold
Vessel Model: Was an Albin/PSN 40
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 26,378
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Our insurance guru Pau Hana had something to say not too long ago about insuring Boats for Air BB....
Didnt look good for just a one boat setup.
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11-04-2017, 04:44 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Pierce
Vessel Name: Florita Ann
Vessel Model: 1982 Present
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 1,935
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It was tried in my marina using the forgiveness and permission principal. Was not a success, the forgiveness card was issued. Slip holders and the live aboards have a stake in the marina and their neighbors. The slip holders, if not vetted are at least somewhat committed to their “neighborhood”. That is not true for a B.B. renter. Here today, then gone. The Marina office has quite a bit of information on “us”. None on a B&B renter.
We had kids raising hell in the pool at late hours, more than one drunken party that went on too late. These instances and the aforementioned logic when pointed out to the surprised Marina Management of the practice, put an end to the practice post haste with the forgiveness card.....or bye. Our marina 300+ slips is full with a waiting list.
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11-07-2017, 08:41 PM
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Senior Member
City: Essex, Ct.
Vessel Name: Harmony
Vessel Model: 1982 41' President
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 338
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You can rent trawler type boats per night in Boston, Mass and Annapolis, Md.
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Tom and Cheryl
"Harmony"
1982 41' President
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11-08-2017, 04:17 AM
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Dauntless Award
City: Wrangell, Alaska
Vessel Name: Dauntless
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 42 - 148
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 2,812
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TJM
You can rent trawler type boats per night in Boston, Mass and Annapolis, Md.
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and in Copenhagen, DK 
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11-08-2017, 04:45 AM
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Guru
City: Sydney
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 1,646
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Here we go again a $300000 boat and get a return of $300 a night on a occasional rental basis +cleaning +Airbnb cut +damage + insurance issues you must be joking 
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11-08-2017, 04:50 AM
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Dauntless Award
City: Wrangell, Alaska
Vessel Name: Dauntless
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 42 - 148
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 2,812
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gaston
Here we go again a $300000 boat and get a return of $300 a night on a occasional rental basis +cleaning +Airbnb cut +damage + insurance issues you must be joking |
I agree, but at least in Europe, the Airbnb boats are more like <$100k. And with high taxes, etc, to earn $20k to $30k a year is not chump change.
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