Is Buying A Charter Yacht For You?

The Preliminary Soul Searching Exercise

The Good News

Is buying a boat an investment?

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Charter Boat Seamanship Manual

This 29-page seamanship manual is the only one geared specifically to charterers, seasoned or first-timers alike. It even includes a glossary!

Here is the table of contents:

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Charter Boat Ownership for Dummies

More and more people are buying monohulls and (mostly) catamarans and placing them into charter programs all over the globe. Placing a yacht into charter management is a good way to reduce the cost of the boat and also offset the cost of ownership. There are different types of management programs offered by the industry that I will analyze and explain to ensure that you have a good understanding of what you will be getting into if you decide to place a yacht into charter management.

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Knots you must know

Like other articles in this section, this is not an in-depth knot encyclopedia. Just 5 knots that you should definitely know to handle almost any kind of situation or need during your charter. As a bonus, knot-making is a great past time for kids and it should keep them happily busy for quite a while—watch their ecstatic face when they nail their first bowline!

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