While the question is a little fanciful, it is actually designed with a serious purpose – to examine whether there are good reasons, other than cost savings, for bringing partners on a boat. To be sure, money is a perfectly valid and compelling reason to share a boat, but it may not be enough to […]
It is all coming together; you and your three best friends have worked through the details, hammered out the sharing agreement and come to terms on how on-going maintenance expenses will be paid. But with each of you owning 25% of the new ski boat…who’s in charge? While you each have an equal share it […]
It could be as simple as a new coffee pot or it could be the latest in boating technology such as Satellite TV, FLIR or Underwater lights but at some point one partner will want to add something to the boat that another may not want to? So how do you handle it? The first […]
You currently have a boat and would like to bring someone on board to help share some of the costs and maximize your investment. But you are just not sure if anyone would be interested. After all your 15′ center console could be a dingy for most of the boats you see listed looking for […]
An important part of any boating partnership is to be able to accurately determine individual usage and a cost for that usage. After all, if you’re the one who always gets stuck filling her up, I can guarantee you that the partnership will not last. How can you accurately determine fuel usage? Let me start […]
