Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
Anybody else get the survey from Mercury? Not surehow I got it? Maybe thru Progressive insurance?
Anyways, they want to know if people would be open to renting out their boat to others vacationing in your area. And also if you'd rent somebody elses boat. I guess like they do houses (VRBO).
Anyways, no WAY I'd let some stranger go run my boat aground or jump on the seats with their shoes on or let their kids spill red Fanta all over the light colored carpet.
Would I rent one, maybe...
Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
Well I would consider if they wanted to leave a $60000 dollar deposit lol
2013 Moomba LSV
Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
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Sharpshooter
Well I would consider if they wanted to leave a $60000 dollar deposit lol
2013 Moomba LSV
Hahaha.....only consider it for $60K? :)
2013 Outback V
2003 SeaRay 182 -- gone but not forgotten...
Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
With MANY stipulations maybe but that contract would have to be iron-clad in my favor. Anything to help pay the boat payment I would consider. Not saying I'd do it but would consider.
Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
I would be hard pressed to let someone take my boat, don't see it happening. my son turns 16 in July and he's already asking to take it, and my truck, out with his friends while I'm at work I've raised a crazy person I guess
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If I lived somewhere with a year round season I'd be open to it, big deposit and extra insurance and post inspection..
I only have about 5+ months here in Chicago, that doesn't leave many weekends available with weather etc, etc, plus if something goes wrong the boat would be unavailable making the season even shorter..
But if the boat was sitting for long periods you could be really picky and rent it a few times a year which might cover a lot of payments...
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kaneboats
No way! There are only a few people in the world I would trust with my boat and none of them are even family members. You can find them right here on this board!
I feel the exact same way.
Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
Why not, I mean what's the worst that could happen.
One of my idiot friends loaned my dad his boat back in '06. Some how the alarms on the outboard were disabled and the impeller quit peeing and blah blah, no more compression. I was actually moving into a new house at the time and missed the week long trip which is why he borrowed the boat (notice he didn't borrow mine !!). We got moved in and decided to rally over to the vacation spot for a few days, when I arrived people told me the boat was broken. I was like no biggie we can get it running and they were like NO, it doesn't have any compression.
Then they said he ran WFO the whole time and blew it up. So to this day we still make fun of my friend and talk about my dad running his boat WFO until it grenaded. $11k later it had a new outboard at my buddies expense, so by the time we all die we should have our $11k out of this story.
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kaneboats
Your Dad, not beat taco's Dad, right?
That is correct haha
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Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
Lol!
We did this trip every year. It's a fairly large group. I had another friend join the trip and bring his boat. By about his third year of coming he was on a mission a month before leaving saying this year your dad's not taking over and driving my boat!
So we get there and the first day we drop our boats and head to the day use area (my dad was already there) to put in our anchors for the day my friend asks for my tube. I shove it his way and go back to organizing and setting my boat up. I see his boat with my tube leave out the corner of my eye and finish up what I was doing and walk up to the beach. Then I see my friend still standing there! I'm like wtf? With my dad out with his crew on my friends boat we decide to go wake boarding. After we finish our sets we headback to the beach where my buddies boat is back anchored. As we walk up on the beach I see what use to be my tube with the entire front ripped out of it and the tow point turned into no less than 8' of 3" wide nylon strap! I see my dad approaching and he says "this thing got a warranty? Must be defective. We were just idling along and someone noticed it was floating away, at first we just thought it came untied."
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KG's Supra24
Didn't you get marked off Dusty's list? :p
That was Dusty's Mom's list. She got tired of me wrecking the way she walked.
Mercury Marine Survey - Would you loan out YOUR boat?
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bergermaister
Was camping on the island a few years back, I had to go in to work for the day, so left my boat with my buddy who had the day off. (he's owned several boats and is my right hand man every summer). He drops me at the dock and it's like any other day at work during the summer - wishing I was on the water instead. Hit the dock at 5:00pm and he's sitting there waiting, big grin on his face. Boat is fine, but I'm looking at him going what? WHAT? WTF Man... He just keeps grinning and says nothing.
Later that night at the campfire I learn that he and his wife went out and "christened" my boat while I was at work... Bastard.
I suppose I'd still trust him with it - just make sure the vinyl is all wiped down before I see it again.
But never a renter - and not even family members for that matter!
Lol!
I honestly don't think I'd trust anyone with my boat besides my wife.
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