Thread: Yacht Sharing
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Steve
 
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Default Yacht Sharing

Please excuse the crude analogy, but sharing your boat would be like sharing
your wife..

Anyway I wouldn't consider it. Bad experience in chartering my last boat
(Cheoy Lee Clipper 33) for 3 months.

The money was good but the boat just was never the same to me.

You might not feel this way if it were a simple day sailer or weekender. As
long as you don't hold any particular effection for the boat.

If this were a group or network, like Time Share, then no one really owns
the boat and everyone is free to abuse it since the cost of the
repairs/depreciation would be spread out over the whole group (guilty or
not).

Let's face it, owning a boat of any degree of complexity requires that the
owner be on hand to ensure that the systems are operated correctly and not
abused. Even for a short period of time.


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My opinion and experience. FWIW

Steve
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