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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. [...] Whenever I’ve spoken to the Financial Times, or other publications aimed at people earning higher salaries, about yours2share and sharing in general, I’ve tended to get a fairly sniffy response. Either they think their readers would only consider buying outright, or they immediately mentally file all sharing as timeshare. So I was surprised to see this [...] I’ve finally managed to get yours2share‘s video onto YouTube! If you want to see it in “high definition”, well much better quality, click here. I read lots of newsletters as I look for what is good and bad to develop yours2share‘s monthly email. In the latest of one of my favourites from Sticky Stapeton, who runs Arrow Yacht Enterprises Sailing School, there was a good opportunity for anyone who wishes to complete their Yachtmaster Ocean practical 600 mile passage [...] I’ve just released another great boat share case study about boat sharing which has some interesting differences from the standard “three men buy a boat” together form of boat sharing. In this latest case study: The owner, who only uses the boat for three weeks a year, has sold a 25% share. This keeps [...] Martin Gray of Pure Latitude phoned me yesterday to ask about advertising with yours2share. We’d met some time ago at an exhibition and he receives yours2share’s newsletter. What I hadn’t realised is that Pure Latitude is rather like a car club or destination club, but for boats. They have a range [...] There is a great new case study on the website about three Yorkshiremen who met through yours2share and after about five months bought a Fairline Targa 40 together to be moored in Mallorca. I’d spoken to Tom Harrison on the phone several times before he called me a couple of weeks ago to tell me that [...] |
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