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Owner Spotlight: Chris in Austin, Texas

Making waves with GetMyBoat is more than having a fun day out on the water. For some, it’s a liberating way of making a living. Meet owner Chris from Texas, who has fo...
Owner Spotlight: Justin from Chill Charters

While many have dreams about saying goodbye to the cubicle life and striking out in search of more exciting seas to sail, few make it a reality. Meet Justin Renfro, a GetMy...
Prepare a Boat for Winter Storage

Prepare a Boat for Winter Storage From changing the oil, purging your water tanks, to treating the interior of your boat, winterizing is an essential task to ensure proper f...
5 Tips for Renting Out Your Boat

The crew at GetMyBoat wants everyone’s experience on the site and on the water to be as enjoyable and profitable as possible. We do our best to make the process for bo...
Renting Your Boat

Boat Owner’s Insurance Before listing your craft on the site, you will need to determine if chartering/renting your watercraft is covered under your boat owner’s...
Rental or Charter Requirements and GetMyBoat

Rental or Charter Requirements and GetMyBoat We pride ourselves on making it simple to rent or charter your boat on our easy to use platform. As stated in our terms of servi...
Rules to Live By: Boating Edition

When it comes to boating, there are two kinds of rules. There are the Coast Guard’s rules, e.g., laws, that must be followed or you go to jail; and there are the rules...
Link to Your GetMyBoat Listing

Tips for linking to your GetMyBoat listing As a GetMyBoat boat owner, it’s easy to drive more traffic to your listing by linking to it from your website. Simply ...
How are boats ranked in GetMyBoat search results?

Boats that appear first in search results get booked more often than boats that appear later, and many boat owners want to know how they can improve their ranking. There are...
Why and How to Keep a Ship's Log

When it comes to boat trips, one of the most useful habits that any captain can have is to keep a detailed log. Logs were once used not only as a captain’s private jou...
Essential Books for a Sailor

During the Golden Age of Sail, many of the great wooden ships that crossed oceans and decided the fate of nations carried a library on board. Filled with religious texts, ad...
Tips to Avoid Stainless Steel Corrosion on Boats

Bright, shiny stainless steel fixtures on sail or power boats — from cleats and fishing rod holders, to mast shrouds and winches — can really make a vessel &ldqu...
Tips for Short-Term Boat Storage

Sometimes shore calls us, and however much we do not want to, we have to put our boats on shore for a short period of time. Here is a checklist of items to help ensure your ...
Different Kinds of Boat Covers

Your boat takes a lot of abuse both on and off the water — the corrosive effects of salt and water, the heat of the sun, the wear and tear of wind, and myriad jolts, b...
Boat Electronics for Beginners

Electronics have long been available for boats. They help chart courses, monitor depth, search for good fishing grounds, and make you more conspicuous in low visibility cond...
What is Gelcoat on Boats

Owners of any type and size of boat readily agree that they wear many hats while involved in recreational boating: navigator, helmsman, electrician, mechanic, chef, and chan...
Tips for Sail Maintenance

As any sailor will tell you, there is no sight more beautiful than that of a vessel skimming over the waves, her sails bellying out with the wind, white and pristine. Though...
How to Trailer a Boat

A runabout, cabin cruiser, or sailboat that can fit on a trailer opens up a range of opportunities for boaters to sail waterways that are not too distant from a homeport. Pu...
Maintenance Tips for Powerboats

Whether you take your boat out once a day or three times a year, maintenance is an important component in making your journey smooth. From tuneups to trailers, barnacles to ...
How to Choose an Outboard Motor

Without an engine, your powerboat — or your sailboat on windless days — becomes nothing more than an oversized rowboat, and let us hope that you will never have ...
5 Tips for Being a Great Hosting Captain

It’s time. You have found a renter for your boat and you are preparing to send them on a great adventure — or a lazy day of relaxation — on your watercraft...
What to Tell Your Boating Guests

Boating is a fun activity and most boaters enjoy sharing their experiences on the water. While the experience is often enhanced by having friends on board, it is important t...
What Sails are Made of and Their Uses

Recreational sailors — both cruisers and racers — know that using sails that match the boat type and rigging and how they are used in varying wind conditions are...
How to Read Clouds While Boating

Who has not looked up at the sky and found shapes and stories in the clouds that drift high above our heads? But clouds have their own stories to tell, if you can read them ...
How to Care for Surfaces on Boats

Caring for a boat is a constant process. The amount of wear that normal water conditions can cause can strip paints and varnishes, and animals can fly overhead or climb on b...
Boat Ventilation

Fresh air, one element of boating that makes the sport so popular, is always available to boaters on outside decks, but below decks on cabin cruisers, clean, fresh air it is...
Bimini Installation, Use, and Safety

Both sail and powerboats have used bimini tops for years to protect passengers and the vessel itself from the elements (mostly the sun) and to create shade while retaining v...
Autopilot Systems on Boats

Autopilot technology is advantageous for boaters in many ways, including convenience, voyage efficiency, fuel savings, and safety. But what are autopilots, and how do they w...
Types of Boat Deck Sealants and Their Uses

Protecting boats from the ravages of saltwater, air, and sun is an effort as old as boating itself. The earliest sailors and boatbuidlers, beginning with oared boats, were c...
Caring for Your Boat’s Bilge

A vessel’s bilge or engine compartment blower is the most important ventilation source for boats with gasoline engines. Bilge blowers remove combustible fumes from clo...
Everyday Items to Help Your Boat’s Engine

When it comes to safety on the water, most people are very good about considering the basic safety precautions for themselves and their bodies. Personal flotation devices, f...
Trailer Wiring Maintenance

It is not a secret that boats and boating equipment operate under some of the most extreme conditions imaginable. Boat trailers are no different. They sit idly for weeks and...
Caring for Your Kayaks and Canoes

Canoes have served as an efficient means of water transportation and provided millions of recreational boaters with an inexpensive way to enjoy our nation’s waters fro...
A Boat’s Heating and Cooling Systems

Sure, we would all like to think that every day on the water would be an even 75 or 80 degrees with a crystal-clear sky, but we know that the reality is often far different....
A Boat's Bottom Paint

A hull free of marine growth keeps a boat working at its peak hydrodynamic performance level. A clean hull is safe, fast, and efficient; a bottom that is fouled (the appropr...
Winterizing A Boat

The air is getting colder, the leaves are turning yellow, and scarves and sweaters begin to appear on the streets – it is the approach of fall, the boater’s leas...
How to Take Great Pictures of Your Boat

Photos are one of the major factors in deciding to rent a boat online. To help yourself stand out from the crowd, it is critical to not only post photos of your boat with yo...

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