Boating without Owning..its about time!™
How Do I Join & How Does the Club Work?
Give us a call or send us a message to arrange your personal tour of the location you are interested in joining. The Membership Director will show you the fleet of boats and will work with you to determine which of our memberships will meet your boating wishes. Once you feel that boating with Carefree Boat Club is for you, submit an application. Most qualified applicants are accepted within 24 hours.
The next step is to become a knowledgeable and proficient boat operator. Our Be A Better Boater training program is included with membership at no additional cost. You will be scheduled for the next available Boating Safety Course and will have your On-The-Water individual boat operation training scheduled as soon as possible thereafter.
Now that you have passed our Be A Better Boater training program, the real FUN begins. As a member, you are able to make reservations up to 6 months in advance using our online reservation system, ResNet. Along with our ResNet online system, our members enjoy boating spur of the moment as well. This is done by speaking with our dock staff directly and making reservations. Members also get to enjoy boating from all of the Carefree Boat Clubs in the Network, not just your “home” club.
The following is an example of how you could use the Carefree Boat Club this year, the possibilities are endless.
Start the year with these reservations:
- Wednesday May 5th All Day Ski Boat from DC [Used 2 Weekday reservations]
- Saturday May 8th AM Fishing Boat from Pasadena, MD [Used 1 Weekend reservation]
- Sunday May 16th PM Deck boat from DC [Used 1 Weekend reservation]
- Miami, FL Bowrider May 29 [Used 1 foreign reservation]
Tuesday May 4th:
You are anxious to get out, so you book a ski boat for the next day (Wed) all day using two of your reservations. You leave from DC and by lunchtime you are in Colonial Beach on the Northern Neck where you feast on fresh crabs at Captain Billy’s Crab Shack. You are back in DC by dinner. Congratulations, you have just begun to discover the thousands of destinations available to you. Now you just have to figure out how to explain your sun burn at work.
Reservations freed up [2 Weekday Reservations]
Reservation booked Thursday May 13th All Day Pontoon Boat from DC (Birthday Party) [Used 2 Weekday reservations]
Saturday May 8th:
You round up your buddies from work for an early morning Rockfishing trip. Everyone catches their limit now that you can access the hotspots. And now that your friends owe you a favor they agree to help you build that deck that you have been putting off. They agree, but only if you take them out again after. No problem, you say.
Reservations freed up [1 Any-day Reservation]
Thursday May 13th
As soon as you got back from boating last Wednesday you realized that you had two reservations available. You are reminded that your daughter has a birthday next Thursday. You quickly reserve a pontoon boat for the birthday telling your daughter to invite six friends. Everyone has a great time and you are now officially the hero, especially after you and Mom realize that this will be the first birthday party ever where you have nothing to clean up. Your dock staff even takes care of the cake crumbs.
Reservations freed up [2 Weekday Reservations]
Sunday May 16th
You use one of your weekend reservations to reserve a deck boat for Sunday the 16th in the afternoon to take the neighbors out to repay them for having you over for diner two months ago. You are getting pretty good at this boat driving thing and visions of getting a captain’s license start dancing in your daydreams.
Reservations freed up [1 Weekend Reservation]
Reservation booked June 5th -June 6th Overnight Cruiser DC. [2 weekday & 2 Weekend]
Saturday May 29th
The in-laws live in Florida, so twice a year the family makes their pilgrimage to see Grandma & Grandpa. This year it is different though, this year you are a member of Carefree Boat Club, which means one less game of pinocle because you have a boat waiting for you…
Friday June 5th-Saturday June 6th
Load up the kids your are hitting the high seas for an overnight pirate adventure. The kids agree camping was never this much fun.
