renting or exchanging a boat question

anyone know anything about renting a boat you own? - any legal/practical consequences? - for example, if you were going to be traveling for a month and your boat was on a mooring in New England or California, is there a market of people qualified and responsible who are interested in renting the boat or even exchanging for their boat in another part of the world?

I rented my boat out last summer on Airbnb.com for $125 per night, there insurance with the rental up to $1 million.... My cal 28 cost me $2k so I wasn't too concerned. I made about $1200 over the summer renting it out mid weeks and when I couldn't get out sailing on the weekend. Hit me back if you want more details..... Rob Murdoch Owner of Cal 28, "Old Flat Top" --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "samusic" <samusic@...> wrote: > > anyone know anything about renting a boat you own? - any legal/practical consequences? - for example, if you were going to be traveling for a month and your boat was on a mooring in New England or California, is there a market of people qualified and responsible who are interested in renting the boat or even exchanging for their boat in another part of the world? >

is there a website like Home Exchange which you use for advertising the boat? any change in your insurance policy since the boat becomes a commercial rather than a personal property? talk to a lawyer? --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "robertjmurdoch" <rjmurdoch@...> wrote: > > I rented my boat out last summer on Airbnb.com for $125 per night, there insurance with the rental up to $1 million.... My cal 28 cost me $2k so I wasn't too concerned. > > I made about $1200 over the summer renting it out mid weeks and when I couldn't get out sailing on the weekend. > > Hit me back if you want more details..... > > Rob Murdoch > Owner of Cal 28, "Old Flat Top" > > --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, "samusic" <samusic@> wrote: > > > > anyone know anything about renting a boat you own? - any legal/practical consequences? - for example, if you were going to be traveling for a month and your boat was on a mooring in New England or California, is there a market of people qualified and responsible who are interested in renting the boat or even exchanging for their boat in another part of the world? > > >

On 4/1/2013 4:34 PM, robertjmurdoch wrote: > > I made about $1200 over the summer renting it out mid weeks and when I couldn't get out sailing on the weekend. > > Hit me back if you want more details..... I'm curious what kind of screening you do for prospective renters. There is a such a wide range of sailing styles and abilities. When I was in college I worked for a sailboat rental place and some skippers were beyond inept (I got fired once for announcing that loudly when one guy ran into the dock, on a run. I was rehired by the owner within 10 minutes because he agreed). And some folks may be skilled, but hey, it's somebody else's boat, so crank down on that backstay tension.... For boats powered by outboards, there's always the issue of the little beast's personality, and the special relationship you must have with it to make it go. Then there's the underwear issue. After you've sailed a boat for a long time, you develop a sort of intimacy with the vessel, and renting out the boat is kinda like lending out your underwear. My other boat lives on the Saginaw River, a navigable watercourse on Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay. I just wrote an article about the boat for the newsletter of the Saginaw River Marine Historical Society. I asserted that the boat is the oldest sailing regularly from the river (using sailing in the wind-powered sense, not to mean making way). Nobody has contradicted me, including my buddy who has the family 1954 Chris-Craft cruiser. He's got the powerboat bragging rights and beats me if we start talking about pleasure boats in general. I'd let good friends sail the Cal 20 because they'd know that the death penalty applied to anybody who harmed my boat, and she has a lot less varnished mahogany than the other boat. Problem is, most of the people I'd trust to sail her are already boat owners. Chris Campbell > >