Wow, thanks NH Boater, fantastic points. I'm consider pursuing this mainly to share my love of boating and meet other folks.
I will share the cost of the commercial insurance with a boat rental business I'm running on the side. I hope the cost will be incremental.
I have a little under 1000 hours on single and twin engine runabouts, ski boats, PWCs, center consoles, sailboats, and pontoons and will shortly have my Captain's License and NH Commercial Boater's license. I'm hoping to get some testimonials after the first few lessons and market mainly through word of mouth.
The list of opportunities is great! I hadn't thought of trailering and anchoring, but clearly there are opportunities there too.
I might combine this with some sort of water taxi/charter service and maybe a concierge business too to offset further marketing and operating expenses.
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