Anyone ever rent out a cabin on their boat?

Re: Anyone ever rent a cabin?

Pupil2Prodigy said:

to cover the cost of a slip/mooring/maintenance

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Assuming you mean renting out part of your cabin space, I've witnessed it firsthand at the marina I lived at.

It's called "sub-letting" and unless it's allowed in your written marina contract, you are in violation of your contract or "lease".

We had a fellow on a medium size motor cruiser sub-letting his cabin space to various people. When the marina owner discovered this, his contract was voided and the boat owner evicted from the marina. Here's the fun part: As a liveaboard, you are NOT entitled to all the legal eviction protections that a dirt-based apartment tenant is entitled to. If the marina owner wants you out, he can evict you nearly immediately.

I can tell you that your fellow liveaboards in the marina are NOT going to be pleased with you, if you rent out your cabin space to various non-boating transients. These people are often poor neighbors, untidy, and prone to petty theft.

The liveaboard community is pretty tight, and looks after each other. They will likely not tolerate this shifty behavior. We sure didn't.