Marinas, boat clubs and charters
Dockage renews in the spring, the rental fleet turns over four times a day in July, and the club takes on twenty new members before Memorial Day. Three completely different documents, three completely different rhythms, one office.
Not a feature list. These are the three moments this exists for.
Two hundred slips, every agreement expiring inside the same six weeks, and an office that is also trying to launch boats. Printed, mailed, chased, scanned, filed — and a third of them still not back by opening day.
Same contract, new renter, every two hours, at a fuel dock, in the sun, with a queue. The paperwork is the slowest part of the transaction and it is the part that matters if the boat comes back on a trailer.
You need to know, quickly, whose cover is current and who has read the storm plan. In August that is not an administrative question.
The agreement knows the season it covers. When it comes round, the link goes out with the rate and the slip number already in it, and the office reads a list rather than a pile.
Texted when the booking is made, signed in the car park, and the operator names are on the contract before anybody touches a helm. For the walk-up, a QR at the fuel dock and a tablet at the desk.
Slip holders, renters and guests are different agreements with different expiry dates, and the office sees who is short of which without holding three systems in their head.
Setup asks what you do. Answer "marinas, boat clubs and charters" and these are waiting as drafts, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit them, or paste what you already use.
A starter, not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check. A note left in the text holds the document at send until somebody has.
A starter, not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check. A note left in the text holds the document at send until somebody has.
Written from the document's side rather than the trade's, for when you know the form you are short of.
rental contract · hire agreement · equipment agreement · damage deposit form
supplemental approval · extra work order · variation · scope change
handbook acknowledgment · rules acknowledgment · code of conduct · policy sign-off
condition report · check-out form · walkaround · pre-existing damage form
upload a PDF to sign · PDF signature fields · fillable PDF · sign an existing document
A COI is a document from somebody else's insurer with an expiry date and a renewal cycle, and doing that properly is a product in itself. The slip agreement records that the holder agreed to carry cover and to produce it; collecting and diarising the certificate is still yours. We would rather say that than half-build it.
If you are on this list, the words above are your words.
Yes. Name, length, registration, draft and insurer are blanks in the document, filled from what you already hold, so the signed agreement is about that vessel rather than a generic form with a boat written in later.
As a rental with named operators. The agreement lists who may take the helm, what certificates they hold and the operating area, and each named operator can be made to sign rather than being written down by somebody else.
One membership agreement with the term it covers, plus a short acknowledgment per reservation if you want one. The reservation carries the vessel; the membership carries the terms.
It is the starting point and not the answer. Lien and abandoned-vessel procedure is set by statute and differs everywhere, and the starter document marks that for an attorney rather than promising something it cannot do.

Free for the first 25 agreements a month. No card to start.