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Boat rental guides

Real prices, licenses, skippers, platforms, itineraries: concrete answers before you book.

• Bow Thruster: Using It Well (and Doing Without It) on a Rental BoatMore and more charter sailboats and motorboats come with a bow thruster. Short bursts, thermal limits, battery drain: how to use it in the marina without becoming dependent on it.
• A Rope Around the Propeller: What to Do (and Not Do) on a Rental BoatPot-buoy line, mooring line, sheet trailing in the water: a fouled propeller is one of the most common charter mishaps. The right moves, in order — and why you should almost never dive.
• Where to Rent a Boat in Greece? A Basin-by-Basin TourSaronic Gulf, Cyclades, Ionian, Dodecanese, Sporades, Halkidiki, Crete: a panorama of Greece's boat rental basins, with the bases tracked by Boat-Comparator and how to choose for your level.
• Where to Rent a Boat in Italy? A Region-by-Region TourLiguria, Tuscany, the Gulf of Naples, Puglia, Sicily, Sardinia, the great lakes: a panorama of Italy's boat rental areas, with the bases tracked by Boat-Comparator and how to choose for your kind of trip.
• Dubrovnik or Kotor: Which Base for a Boat Rental in the Southern Adriatic?The Elaphiti islands and the city walls on the Croatian side, the Bay of Kotor on the Montenegrin side: two spectacular departures, two countries, two systems. Border formalities, crowds, budget — the comparison.
• Rovinj or Pula: Which Base for a Boat Rental in Istria?A Venetian archipelago and the Lim fjord on one side; a Roman amphitheatre, Brijuni and Cape Kamenjak on the other: comparing the two Istrian bases for renting a boat in northern Croatia.
• Ajaccio or Bonifacio: Which Base for a Boat Rental in Southern Corsica?A sheltered gulf and the Sanguinaires on one side, white cliffs and the Lavezzi on the other: two very different bases for exploring southern Corsica by boat. Wind, anchorages, budget — the comparison.
• Mykonos or Santorini: Which Cyclades Island for a Boat Rental?Delos and Rhenia on one side, the caldera on the other: two star islands of the Cyclades, two completely different playgrounds. Anchorages, meltemi, fleet on offer — how to choose between Mykonos and Santorini.
• Renting a Boat Over the October Half-Term (Toussaint): The Last Window Before WinterOn 17 October 2026, all three French school zones break up at once — a one-off in the calendar. Where the sea still works, and why booking early matters more than ever on this autumn window.
• Renting a Boat in Ithaca: On the Trail of Odysseus Between Vathy and KioniVathy and its sheltered bay, the coves of Kioni and Frikes best reached by boat, and the debate reopened in 2026 over Odysseus' real island: the guide to renting a boat in Ithaca, the quietest of the Ionian Islands.
• Weever fish, sea urchin, stingray: the most common injuries when swimming from a rental boatA weever fish sting more painful than a jellyfish, a sea urchin spine stuck under your foot, a stingray lying in the sand: the right response to the most common marine injuries at anchor.
• Booking a Restaurant's Mooring Buoy: How It Actually WorksMany beachfront restaurants lay their own mooring buoys just off the terrace: how to book one, what it really costs, and the etiquette to follow from a rental boat.
• Copa del Rey MAPFRE in Palma (1-8 August 2026): watching the regatta from a rental boatFrom 1 to 8 August 2026, the Bay of Palma de Mallorca hosts the 44th Copa del Rey MAPFRE, one of the Mediterranean's biggest cruising regattas: how to watch it from a rental boat.
• New boat or older one: why fleet age actually matters when rentingA newer rental boat is not just about looks: equipment, mechanical reliability and upkeep vary noticeably depending on how old an operator's fleet actually is.
• Personal accident insurance (PAI): what your deposit and liability cover leave outThe deposit covers the boat, liability insurance covers third parties: who covers your own injuries if you get hurt aboard? What personal accident insurance actually does.
• Electrical failure or a dead battery on a rental boat: what to actually doThe engine won't turn over, navigation lights dim at dusk, the fridge dies at anchor overnight: how to react to an electrical failure on a rental boat.
• Gybing and boom strikes: the most common injury on a rental sailboatWhy gybing and boom strikes remain the leading cause of injury on a sailboat, and how to avoid them on a charter boat, even as a beginner.
• Plow, Delta, SPADE: the main anchor types you'll find on a rental boatPlow, Delta or SPADE anchor: how to tell the main anchor types fitted to a rental boat apart, and what that shape actually changes for holding power at anchor.
• Personal locator beacon (PLB) and EPIRB: what they actually do on a rental boatThe difference between a boat's EPIRB and a personal PLB, how each one works, and why every minute shaved off a rescue genuinely matters at sea.
• Outboard or inboard: which engine to pick on a rental boatPower, footprint, noise and upkeep differences between an outboard and an inboard engine on a rental boat, and what actually matters before you book.
• MMSI and the DSC distress button: what digital VHF really changes in an emergencyWhat an MMSI number is, how the Digital Selective Calling (DSC) distress button on a VHF radio works, and why it genuinely speeds up rescue when something goes wrong.