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Marinas, boat clubs and charters

Slip agreements, rental contracts and guest waivers, all in one place.

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.

Where it goes wrong

Not a feature list. These are the three moments this exists for.

Spring renewals, all at once

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.

The rental that turns over four times a 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.

Insurance certificates and a named storm

You need to know, quickly, whose cover is current and who has read the storm plan. In August that is not an administrative question.

What happens instead

1

Renewals that send themselves

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.

2

The rental signed before they reach the dock

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.

3

One list, three kinds of document

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.

Two documents, in your account the moment you name your trade

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.

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Slip and Dockage Agreement

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.

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Boat Rental and Operator Agreement

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.

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Documents this trade sends

Written from the document's side rather than the trade's, for when you know the form you are short of.

Rental agreements

rental contract · hire agreement · equipment agreement · damage deposit form

Change orders and extra work

supplemental approval · extra work order · variation · scope change

Policy acknowledgments

handbook acknowledgment · rules acknowledgment · code of conduct · policy sign-off

Condition and damage acknowledgments

condition report · check-out form · walkaround · pre-existing damage form

Signing a PDF you already have

upload a PDF to sign · PDF signature fields · fillable PDF · sign an existing document

We do not track certificates of insurance

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.

Who this is for

If you are on this list, the words above are your words.

Marinas and boatyards

Boat clubs and membership fleets

Yacht and sailing clubs

Boat and pontoon rental liveries

Bareboat and crewed charter companies

Dry stack and rack storage

Kayak, paddleboard and jet ski rental

Dockominiums and harbour associations

Questions

Can the slip agreement carry the vessel details?

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.

How does this handle a bareboat charter?

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.

What about a club where members sign once and use any boat?

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.

Does a signed dockage agreement help with an abandoned boat?

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.

A hand holding a phone showing a document and a signature, outside a timber lakeside cabin, with two guests walking to the door with luggage.

Ready when the next guest is.

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