Donating a boat

[smilinmatt]

I´m just about finished with my first boat and need to make room for it. Rather than sell my old boat, I want to donate to a charity.<BR><BR>Does anybody know of a worthy charity in the northeast Florida area?<BR><BR>Matt Brueckner

[Rick]

I can think of two groups that deal with donated boats.<BR><BR>First is the Sea Scouts program of the Boy Scouts of America. They either use the boats as projects for the scouts, or they sell them to raise money.<BR><BR>Second, a lot of colleges accept donations and then either sell the boats or use them in the collegiate programs.<BR><BR>In either case, depending on your boat, they are likely to sell it to raise money.<BR><BR>- Rick Tyler

[JimW]

Eckerd Youth Alternatives runs many camps in Florida. My daughter was helped by the one in Floral City, FL. They have had need for a small river boat to resupply their canoe group trips. Camp E-Nini-Hassee is their name. They do wonderful things there and deserve all the support anyone can lend them. <BR><BR>Jim

[smilinmatt]

Jim,<BR><BR>I sent them an email about the boat. BTW, the boat is a 13´ whaler with a bad motor, no trailer (going to use for the GF12). The boat hull is in good shape. New console, benches and paint about 1 year ago.<BR><BR>I´ll wait until I hear back from Eckerd Youth Alternatives. If they don´t want the boat, and anyone else knows of or is involved with a charity that might. Let me know.<BR><BR>Matt Brueckner

[JimW]

Thank you Matt. It´s amazing all the good work they do there.<BR>Jim

[Seagull]

Whoever you end up giving the boat to, make sure that you get a "hold Blameless - for instructional purposes only" letter from the receipent. Otherwise, although they may greatfully accept your gift, if someone gets hurt the parents decide to sue you.<BR><BR>I donated my expermintal airplane to the Aviation Explorer Scouts. I wrote up a hold blameless letter and got the scout leader to sign it. I´m glad I did for a number of reasons. One thing that I didn´t plan on is that they sold the airplane to a guy that wants to rebuild and fly it. Hopefully I won´t be liable for anything that happens to guy that bought it.