New co-owner group
Airon Marine 325
¼ share €18,748Total price €74,990 · also ⅓ share, ½ share, ¾ share
- 12 weeks a year on paper
- Annual running costs, your share, approx. €3,750, estimated
Time to cast off. In your own boat.
Together, two sizes bigger.
Got a boat?
Want to move up to a bigger boat? Sell yours to up to four buyers. Or keep a part of it.
Offer your boatLooking for a boat?
Buy a share in a used boat and become an owner, with one to three co-owners.
Find a boat
Current listings
Boat shares available now.
Every listing states the share, its price and what it costs you per year.
New co-owner group
Bertram 25 Express Cruiser
¼ share €24,750Total price €99,000 · also ⅓ share, ½ share, ¾ share
- 12 weeks a year on paper
- Annual running costs, your share, approx. €2,000, estimated
New co-owner group
Envision 2900 Concept XS
¼ share €11,250Total price €45,000 · also ⅓ share, ½ share, ¾ share
- 12 weeks a year on paper
- Annual running costs, your share, approx. €2,000, estimated
For owners
Sell your boat or bring co-owners on board.
You don’t have to wait for that one person who pays for it all at once.
Want to move up to a bigger boat, or go out less and still stay involved? Up to four buyers can take over your boat together, each with a share. Or you keep a part of it and bring co-owners on board.
Sell the whole boat
One buyer alone or up to four buyers together take over your boat. You list it yourself, and enquiries come through PartABoat. Until you commit to a group of buyers, you can also sell your boat elsewhere.
Keep a part
You keep your boat and can go on using it in proportion to your share. Your new co-owner pays their part of the purchase price, and from then on you bear the running costs together. You have a say in who joins.
List by 28 February 2027 and you pay no commission for that listing, provided the purchase contract is concluded by 31 December 2027 (terms of the offer).
PartABoat is paid by both sides: you pay the commission, and each buyer of a share pays a one-off structuring fee; anyone buying the whole boat alone pays none. Both fall due only after completion, the commission for a buyer without a service agreement with PartABoat already after the purchase contract.
The comparison
Let’s do the sums.
Example: motorboat Prestige 42 · built 2010 · Croatia · market value approx. €230,000
| Type of cost | Chartering | Sole ownership | PartABoat, ¼ share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront costs | €0 | €230,000 | €57,500 |
| Costs per year | €25,500–31,500 (3 weeks, with around €1,500 additional costs per booking) | approx. €19,500 | €5,000 |
| Ownership at the end | Nothing | Yes, with depreciation | ¼ share (residual value) |
When you charter, you are left with no share at the end. Buy alone, and you carry the purchase price and running costs alone. With a quarter you pay a quarter of the costs, and your share keeps a residual value. Residual value means: your share has a resale value. How much you get depends on the boat and the buyer; a single share often fetches less on the market than its portion of the whole boat.
With a sailing yacht, such as a Bavaria Cruiser 41 (built 2015, Croatia, approx. €100,000): a quarter for approx. €25,000, approx. €3,125 running costs per year instead of approx. €12,500 alone; three weeks of charter cost approx. €10,500–12,000 per year.
The charter weeks are calculated at high-season prices. With a quarter, you are entitled to at least 2 weeks under our template in July and August; the rest of your 12 weeks on paper fall in the shoulder seasons.
Upfront costs without the structuring fee to PartABoat, not counting major repairs.
up to 75%
lower running costs
with a ¼ share compared with sole ownership
12
weeks per year
with a ¼ share, on paper
up to 4
co-owners per boat
a small, fixed co-owner group
approx. 2 to 4
years to break even
with three weeks of charter per year, depending on the boat
Prefer just one co-owner? Then buy a half. Enter ½ as your preferred share. If a sole owner sells half of their boat, there will definitely be two of you; in a whole-boat sale, it emerges while the group is being put together whether one person buys the other half or two people with a quarter each.
Settled in advance
Did it go wrong for people you know?
It happens, yes. Whether it works depends on the people and on what has been settled in advance. You get to know each other before you buy, out on the water. And three things are settled from the start: the contract between you, the payment and the high season.
Living Contract
The Living Contract (co-owner agreement) is an adaptable contract for your co-owner group. It sets out how you allocate the weeks and split the costs, who may join and how to leave. If your group changes, you adapt it.
Paying at handover
You transfer the purchase price only on the handover date, once keys and papers have been handed over, and never to PartABoat. If you want extra security, choose a notary.
High season
Our template of the Living Contract allocates the high season by share, rotating every year. If you settle on July and August, each owner is entitled to at least 2 weeks under our template.
You pay nothing to PartABoat until completion. PartABoat is just starting: listing and enquiries already work. Until PartABoat accompanies the purchase, you buy directly; getting to know each other and forming the group are then yours to organise. How to protect the purchase price is explained in the information sheet.
In 4 steps
Four steps to your co-owner group.
From first contact to handover. At every step you know what comes next.
Discover
You find a boat and register your interest. It costs nothing and does not bind you.
Check and get to know each other
You view the boat, negotiate the price and get to know your co-owners. Things only move on when everything fits.
Secure your place
Whether existing or new co-owner group: the purchase price is fixed. You pay your share of the purchase price only when all contracts are signed.
Become an owner
You sign the purchase contract and the Living Contract, and the boat is handed over. As soon as PartABoat accompanies the purchase, you transfer the purchase price at this point only once keys and papers have been handed over; until then, the information sheet will help.
Why PartABoat
I do this myself.
I am a co-owner of two boats myself, one in Croatia, one on the Rhine. Alone, I would have had to choose one. Shared, I can have both.
Together with my mate, I have used five boats over the years. I’m more the woodworm: sanding, polishing, restoring. He knows his way around electrics and engines. As co-owners and co-workers we complemented each other perfectly and saved a lot of money.
With PartABoat, others can now do it too.
Ekki, founder of PartABoat
From real life
Voices from on board.
Experiences from the founder’s circle of friends.
We share a boat because that way the purchase, maintenance and operation are spread across several shoulders and the boat gets used more. We handle the upkeep, organisation and technical side together. Along the way, co-owners have become friends.
Less harbour. More sea.
Choose a boat and register your interest. It costs nothing and does not bind you.