[yours2share]

I think you are ideally looking for someone who has a boat that you could rent from them every now and then as a long term relationship. I agree this is sensible idea and I don’t know many places where you can do this. So few that I created yours2share to enable people to find partners for what I call fractional rent.

Fractional rent could be an agreement to rent every other weekend, or six weekends a year or whatever suits both parties. Ideally it will be an agreement for at least a year, set up either with the rental being paid all in advance or possibly as a monthly rental – it depends on the level of trust built up.

I came to the idea because I wanted to rent my holiday cottage every other weekend. I particularly wanted to rent to someone I’d got to know, someone like-minded with a compatible requirement that I trusted. For boats, trust is probably just as important as with property.

So far I’ve been promoting fractional rentals to property and weekday only lets are currently the major part of this. But I always envisaged boats would be the next obvious candidate.

Here is some guidance on fractional rent and a recent press release about a successful fractional rent of a second home.

If you are looking to rent on a one off basis, there are two new websites that cater for this that you might find interesting: rentoid.com and irent2u.com. These focus on simple one off rentals rather than getting to know the rental partner first before committing to a longer term arrangement. yours2share is free to use, rentoid and irent2u both charge the person renting out the item between 5-10% of the rental amount.

A quick look on rentoid and irent2u tells me that irent2u doesn’t have any boats anywhere, although there is a category for it and the only boats in rentoid are in Australia. These two websites don’t have any facility to post an ad saying that you are looking to rent a boat, which you can do with yours2share, so I suggest that you do this. You’ve nothing to lose and its’s free. The ad will be picked up by Google within a week or two so anyone looking to rent (or possibly looking to sell a share in his boat) in your area would find you.

Good luck!