We’ve a great new boat sharing case study, Andrew A has sold a share in his Fairline Phantom 48 based in Mallorca, to create a new private syndicate using Net Lawman’s contract templates. Read about it here.
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After many months hard work, we’ve now launched the new yours2share website. Please have a look! Many thanks to Ruth Cheesley of Virya Technologies for her help with this Joomla based system. The new yours2share has a forum and directory dedicated to everything related to private syndicates and all things sharing. Over the next few weeks I [...] I loved this piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph about four men who have just sailed across the Atlantic on a raft called Antiki. The four ranged in age from 56 to 85. It has several lovely aspects, but the bit that pleased me the most was Mr Smith advertised five years ago for “OAPs” to [...] I’ve just added a post to Shareable.net’s excellent website about every aspect of sharing. It is an introductory piece explaining the basics issues to be discussed when you are creating a new private syndicate, called How to share the big stuff. Over the next few days most of you will be celebrating Christmas and New Year with family and friends. I’m guessing that some of you will end up discussing plans for the future, including the purchase of boats, cars, motor homes and holiday homes. When you think about it, these major assets are almost always [...] I’ve just stumbled upon this article written recently in the FT – a crafty investment. I’m pleased to see any proper debate about fractional ownership: too often the discussion is either, oh it’s just timeshare, or it’s just a way of pretending you are a millionaire. Not that I have anything specifically against timeshare applied to [...] 2-3 partners wanted, Southerly 110, Swing Keel, 2000, Lymington, Hampshire Many boat owners are wondering whether they can justify keeping and maintaining their beloved boat and yet selling it, even if they wanted to, isn’t that easy at the moment either. Some of these pondering sailors are coming to yours2share to sell shares in their boat: [...] Anyone who has ever owned a boat will tell you that the ongoing mooring and maintenance costs can be considerable. One of the major advantages of sharing a boat is sharing these costs. So I read this article in the Wall Street Journal today with a little amusement. Sunk costs details the running costs of superyachts. [...] Most sharing arrangements quickly find they need some kind of reservation system so that people can easily see who and when partners are using the shared asset. If they have an arrangement where free time can be booked on a first come basis, then they need the system to enable them to make the reservation [...] |
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