Terms of Service

BoatRental.com is operated by Boat Rental INTL LLC, a Florida limited liability company(“we”, “us”). Using the site means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.

You must be at least 18 to create an account or send a booking request, and the information you give us must be accurate. Some markets impose their own minimum age to operate a vessel, which is separate from and may be higher than this.

We are the venue. Operators create their own listings, set their own prices, decide their own availability, and accept or decline every request themselves. When a booking is agreed, the contract for that trip is between you and the operator. We are not a party to it.

That distinction is not a disclaimer we hide behind — it describes real limits on what we can know. We do not inspect boats, verify seaworthiness, survey vessels, check a captain’s licence, confirm an operator’s insurance, or supervise any trip. We do not provide insurance of any kind. Where a listing states a certification, a licence or a safety standard, that is the operator’s statement about their own business, not ours about theirs.

Listings marked as example listings exist so that a market page is not empty. They are badged as such, they cannot be booked, and they are excluded from our sitemap. They are illustrations of the kind of boat a market offers, not inventory.

You send a request for specific dates and a party size. Sending a request costs nothing and books nothing — the operator confirms availability first, and may accept, decline, or propose a different price for your dates. A trip is only agreed when the operator accepts and you have agreed the price.

The price you see is quoted from the operator’s own published rates and is frozen at the moment you request. A later change to a rate, or to our fees, does not rewrite a booking you have already made.

Where an operator has not yet claimed their account, their listings are shown but cannot be requested. There is nobody on the other end to answer, and we would rather say so than take a request nobody can act on.

Two fees, both published, both flat, neither tiered by insurance package, listing type, season or volume. The renter pays 8% of the boat price, added on top and itemised in the quote before any request is sent. The operator pays 10%, deducted from their price. On a $1,000 boat the renter pays $1,080 and the operator receives $900. Both parties see both figures before either commits.

We do not process payments. Card payments are not live on this platform. Today the renter settles directly with the operator by whatever method they agree between themselves, and we never hold, escrow or route that money. This means we cannot issue a refund, reverse a charge, or resolve a payment dispute — a disagreement about money is between you and the operator. When card payments launch, these terms will be updated before they apply to anything.

Fuel, crew beyond the captain, provisioning, dockage and gratuity are charter-industry costs billed by the operator, not fees of ours. Where a listing includes them or excludes them, that is the operator’s term and it is stated on the listing.

Cancellation terms are set by the operator and stated on the listing or agreed in your messages with them. Both sides can cancel a booking on this site, and the record of who cancelled and when is kept.

Because we do not hold your money, a cancellation on this site changes the status of the booking — it does not, by itself, move any funds. Any refund is a matter between you and the operator on the terms you agreed with them. Weather, mechanical failure and captain’s discretion are ordinary parts of chartering, and a captain may refuse or curtail a trip on safety grounds at any time.

You may only list a boat you own or are authorised to charter, and your listing must be accurate — the vessel, its capacity, its condition, its price and what the price includes. You are responsible for holding every licence, registration, permit and insurance your market requires, for the vessel and for whoever operates it. Carrying more passengers than the law allows is your liability, not ours; in the United States an uninspected vessel may carry a maximum of 12 passengers regardless of its size.

Listing is free and there is no exclusivity — list the same boat anywhere else you like. You approve every renter yourself, and you may decline without giving a reason. You keep ownership of your photographs and descriptions, and you grant us the licence to display them on the site and in the places the site is indexed and cited for as long as your listing is published.

You are responsible for meeting whatever your launch market requires of you. Some markets require a boating safety certificate to operate a vessel yourself — Florida requires one for anyone born on or after 1 January 1988. A captained charter requires nothing of you.

You agree to give an accurate party size, to follow the operator’s and the captain’s instructions on board, and not to exceed a boat’s stated capacity. Boating carries inherent risk, including of serious injury, and you accept that risk when you go on the water.

Messages between renters and operators pass through this site. Contact details — email addresses, phone numbers, links and social handles — are removed from messages before they are stored. That is deliberate: it is how the platform stays viable, and it protects both sides by keeping the conversation on a record either can point to.

Do not use the site to arrange a booking off-platform in order to avoid the fee, and do not use messaging to spam, harass or defraud anyone.

Do not scrape or bulk-copy the site, attempt to break its access controls, impersonate anyone, upload malicious code, post unlawful or misleading content, or use the site to break any law that applies to you. Automated access is limited to what our robots.txt permits.

The market guides, local rules, price research and the site itself are ours, and are protected by copyright. You may quote and cite them with attribution and a link — being cited is the point. You may not republish them wholesale as your own.

We publish figures computed from live listings, and verified local rules with their sources. We work to keep them accurate, but we do not warrant that every figure or rule is complete or current at the moment you read it. Where a legal requirement matters to your trip, confirm it with the issuing authority.

You may stop using the site at any time and ask us to close your account. We may suspend or remove an account or a listing that breaks these terms, misrepresents a boat, or puts other users at risk. Where we can give notice first, we will.

The site is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Because the trip is between you and the operator, we are not liable for what happens on it — injury, damage, loss, delay, cancellation, a boat that is not as described, an operator who does not appear, or a payment dispute between you. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim relating to this site is limited to the fees we actually received from you in connection with the booking in question, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for our own fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, and where that is so, those exclusions do not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your own breach of these terms, your listings, or your conduct on a trip.

We may update these terms as the site changes — most obviously when card payments launch, which will change the money sections materially. The date at the top always reflects the current version, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it. If a change is significant and you have an account, we will tell you.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts of FL are where disputes about them are heard. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory laws of your own country.

If any part of these terms is held unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

Questions about these terms go to info@boatrental.com. How we handle personal data is set out in our privacy policy.