The guide provides comprehensive insights on turning water-related activities into profitable ventures. It includes essential topics such as business startup, accounting, insurance, and marketing strategies. Additionally, it addresses federal and state regulations regarding licensing, documentation, and vessel inspection, making it valuable for both established charter operators and newcomers to the industry.
This second edition is a comprehensive, entertaining guide to mixing boating with business. Leaping ahead of the first edition, this guide keeps up with a boating industry that has become much more regulated and competitive. It shows old salts and newcomers how to transform water-related fun into the pure pleasure of profitability–from starting a business, to accounting and budgeting, insurance, marketing tools, and the business plan. In understandable language, using terms that have excised the legal gobbledygook, it also provides requirements for licensing, documentation and vessel inspection, along with bareboat and crewed chartering. In a world of ever changing regulations, author Fred Edwards sums up the book's purpose with this pithy advice, "To save time, always check this book first; to save grief, check with the controlling agencies before you make a final decision." For anyone on the water, this book is a perfect and, possibly, a profitable gift.
After the loss of his ship Eilen Mhor to a German submarine in World War 2, her Skipper George finds it hard to come to terms with her loss and the demanding captivity of himself and his surviving crew members through the long and adventure filled voyage home