Boat Sharing means the operation of boats, mainly sailing boats, by an non-profit organisation for its members. Sailing is the art of controlling a Sailing vessel. By changing the Rigging, Rudder and dagger or centre board a Sailor manages the force A non-profit organization ( abbreviated "NPO" also "not-for-profit" is a legally constituted Organization whose objective is to support or engage The organisation may be an association, a cooperative, a club or a society or—if it is set up more professionally and/or more commercially—a company or a corporation. A voluntary association or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, unincorporated association, or just an association) is a group A club is an association of people united by a common interest or goal Generally a company is a form of Business organization. The precise definition varies A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business The boats may be the property of the boat sharing organisation or of a third-party and operated under an appropriate contract.
By boat sharing, the capacity of the boats is used to a higher exent than it is usually in privately owned boats. An Yngling (ˈɪŋlɪŋ Norwegian pronunciation {{IPA|[yŋlɪŋ]}}) is a type of sailing boat that the International Yngling Association Costs per hour or per day sailed are lower, because the fixed costs are spread out over a larger amount of time and shared by several users. This benefit alone by far outweighs the cost for the reservation system and administration and coordination overhead.
Compared to privately owning and operating a boat, boat sharing offers several other advantages:
- No need to wait for a mooring. vessel is said to be moored when it is fastened to a fixed object such as a Pier, Quay or the seabed or to a floating object such as an anchor buoy In many ports, waiting time for a mooring is many years because demand by far exceeds limited supply. For other uses of this word see Marina (disambiguation. A marina is a sheltered Harbor where Boats and Yachts This situation even further discourages holders to ever release their mooring, even if they do not use it any more—a vicious circle. The Tragedy of the Commons is the title of an influential article written by Garrett Hardin, first published in the journal Science in 1968.
- Boat sharers can use different boats in different ports on different shores according to their likings or needs—sporty or even competitive sailing in a class boat or a relaxing weekend trip with family or friends on a cruiser.
The limiting factor for the growth of a boat sharing organisation is the availability of moorings. A limiting factor or limiting resource is one that controls a process such as organism growth or species Population size or distribution By the comparatively high usage rate of boats and moorings, boat sharing uses the scarce resource moorings more efficiently, more sustainably and in this sense more fairly than ordinary private boat owners do. This would justify to favour boat sharers when allocating moorings; so far no port administration has become known, however, to favor boat sharers over ordinary private boat owners when allocating moorings.
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Sailcom
The oldest and so far largest boat sharing organisation is the Sailcom cooperative in Switzerland. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Founded in 1991 under the name ShareCom as a combined car sharing and boat sharing cooperative, in 1997 the car sharing department merged with "Auto Teilet Genossenschaft ATG" into Mobility Carsharing Switzerland, whereas the boat sharing department turned into today's independent Sailcom cooperative. It has 1425 members (as of February 2006) and 57 sailing boats on 16 lakes in Switzerland. In the years 2002–2004, the number of members grew by 10–15% p. a. which is quite a challenge for a not-for-profit cooperative, that mainly depends on its members' spare time efforts and only very few part time employees.
How it works
Whoever wants to use Sailcom boats, has to be a member; to become a member, one has to
- have an official Swiss licence for sailing boats with more than 15 m2 sail area ("Bootsführerschein Kategorie D" or "D-Schein" for short), and
- sign a share of SFr. 600. —; this amount is refunded when membership ends.
Members can make reservations for sailing boats by internet (this is the vast majority of reservations) or by a 24-hr telephone call center. Boat usage is charged per hour or per day reserved. Daily rates are fivefold hourly rates; slightly higher rates apply on weekends and holidays. Rates vary according to size and equipment of the boats.
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