Let’s explore Letyourboat.com, an intuitive, immediate and free online platform that connects those who want to provide a boat and those who want to rent one. Providing widespread and specialized assistance. The mission is clear: to activate a “virtuous circle” that benefits shipowners, guests, charters, and marinas (sponsored news)
It is called Letyourboat and was born to put itself at your service. Whether you are a boat owner, simple enthusiast eager for a boating adventure, boat operator. How? With a new online platform that easily and immediately connects and assists … supply and demand, Airbnb-style.
We tested it and were impressed by the ease of use. The portal, available in five languages, is developed with the latest technology: it has all the necessary features for communication, booking, checking boat documents, managing rates and calendars with detailed boat availability.
THE IMPORTANCE OF “GUIDANCE”
But there is more: you will have a network of reliable and experienced “Rent Advisors” present in the ports for check-in/out, boat cleaning, paperwork and maintenance. That’s because, as Giuseppe Camia, among the partners of the innovative start-up (and a past vice-president of IT giant Capgemini), told us, “the boat doesn’t work like a house: it’s a world in which if you don’t know how to move you have to be able to count on a guide. And we want to be that guide. I’ll give an example: if you book an apartment on Airbnb, you go into the house and, by intuition, you know where the light switches are. Or how the bathroom works. On board, that’s often not the case.”
THE BENEFITS FOR SHIPOWNERS
Let’s analyze the advantages of Letyourboat from the various points of view. If you are a boat owner, it represents the right opportunity to make it pay off: it will be up to you to decide how much, but testimonials speak of a minimum of 12,000 euros a year for a 9-meter boat. Registration on the site and use of the platform are free: whether you rent it for simple overnight stay (Boat&Breakfast, so with boat moored at the dock), as an alternative experience to a stay in an apartment or hotel, or whether you decide to make your boat available for occasional rental (regulated under Dl 69/2013).
All boats are verified with an advanced system to create a healthy platform populated by real users and boats. You will also not have to be afraid of who will come on board, because all guests (and their documents) are verified. In addition, Letyourboat provides insurance to cover third-party liability, accidents in the case of recreational activities at sea, and bail or insurance against damage to the boat even when only overnight moored at the dock in the B&B mode.
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“BOON” FOR NAVIES
As we have anticipated, Letyourboat offers shipowners and guests the possibility of being assisted at all stages by a network of Rent Advisors, figures who are expanding in various Italian and international marinas to offer a ‘thought-provoking’ and ‘turnkey’ service (in this regard, it is selecting professionals and operators working in ports to expand its network).
Indeed, among the start-up’s missions is to become a strategic development partner for any marina interested in offering added value to its owners and increasing sales of ancillary services offered to the catchment area that gravitates around the marina (restaurants, services, health& fitness).
CHARTER OPPORTUNITY
Charterers will also be able to find the platform a valuable ally, as they can use it to put their boats in B&B mode during the off-season. Or, even, more simply, to take advantage of an additional channel to expand one’s business.
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GUESTS TREATED TO THE TOP
As the British say, last, but not least, the service offered to the end users, the guests, who can safely access a new way of experiencing a vacation with the charm and atmosphere that only a boat can offer, assisted in every way if they are “nautical neophytes” or independently if they are experienced boaters. A single platform, many benefits for the entire boating industry. It is not surprising, then, that, Letyourboat was named among the best 200 startups at the Lisbon Web Summit, defined by Forbes as the world’s most important event in this field…
