About BoatRental.com
BoatRental.com is a booking platform. It connects people who want to rent a boat with the independent operators who run them, and gives both sides one place to agree a trip. The charter itself is between you and the operator. We do not own boats, we do not run charters, and we never supply a captain.
Who runs the site
BoatRental.com is operated by Boat Rental INTL LLC, a Florida limited liability company. Email is how you reach us: info@boatrental.com. There is more detail on which enquiries go where on the contact page.
What we do, and what the operator does
This is the single most useful thing to understand about the site, so it is a table rather than a paragraph. Every boat on BoatRental.com belongs to an independent operator. They are the counterparty to your charter, they are responsible for the vessel, and on a captained trip the master and crew are theirs.
| BoatRental.com | The operator |
|---|---|
| Publishes the listing, the itemised price and whatever local rules we have checked for that market | Owns or runs the boat, writes the listing and sets the price |
| Carries the request, the messages and the record of what was agreed | Answers every request — accepts, declines, or proposes a different price |
| Shows both fees before either side commits to anything | Warrants its own licensing and the cover its market requires |
| Supplies no boat, no master and no crew, on any trip | Supplies the master and any crew on a captained charter |
| Is not a party to the charter | Is the party you are chartering from |
One consequence is worth spelling out: we have no captain product. If a listing says a captain is included, that captain works for the operator, not for us. We do not select, employ or arrange crew for anybody.
What we are trying to do better
Two things, both unglamorous, both the reason this site exists rather than another gallery of boats.
- Local facts that were checked. Named marinas and launch ramps, no-wake and manatee zones, the season a market actually runs, and who needs a boating safety card where you are launching. A local fact stays invisible to the public site until it has been checked and marked verified — the gate is in the database, not in somebody’s checklist, because getting a regulation wrong is the expensive kind of wrong.
- Prices from real operators. Every figure on a listing is the operator’s own price. We publish no estimates, no averages dressed up as a “from” price, and no ratings or review counts we have not actually received. Where a market has no operator yet, the example listings that fill it are badged as examples, kept out of the sitemap, and cannot be booked.
How we are paid
Two fees, both flat, both published. The operator pays 10% of their own price. The renter pays 8% on top of it, itemised in the quote before the request is sent. Neither rate changes by season, listing type or insurance tier, and nothing else is added later.
Nothing is charged on this site today. Renters and operators settle directly with each other, and we say so here rather than leaving it to be discovered at the dock. The operator terms go through the same numbers from the owner’s side.
Where we cover
BoatRental.com publishes 199 markets across 68 countries, each with its own destination page. That sentence is not typed in: both numbers are counted from the markets the site actually serves every time this page is rebuilt, through the same read path a visitor gets. A country we take off the site leaves the count the same day.
It is a count of pages, not of boats. A market page can exist before a single operator has listed there — the local guide comes first and the supply follows — so treat it as the map of where we work, not as a claim about inventory. Browse every destination to see what is behind each one.