How Berthright works
Three parties, one question, and a paper trail that outlives the handshake. Here it is in the order you would meet it.
First: whether letting is possible at all
Most berth contracts forbid subletting, and most holders have never read theirs. So every port here is answered from its own regulation, with the clause quoted and linked, so you can check our reading against the source. The answer is one of five:
Grey is not a refusal. Many private marinas publish nothing at all, and where nobody has read a regulation we say so plainly — there your own contract decides, and a person reads it when you register.
If you hold the berth
Search your port. If its regulation forbids letting you are told at once, with the clause — not after three forms. If it permits, you register the right and upload the contract that proves it is yours. A person checks it, confirms when the concession ends, and only an explicit permission unlocks a listing. Then you set the term, the dates and the price, add at least one photograph, and publish.
Publishing means signing an exclusive mandate. It is a real document kept at its own address, and the version you accept is the version recorded.
If you need a berth
A listing shows the port, the dimensions, the price, the term and the concession year. The berth number, the holder's name and the access instructions are not on the page at all before a booking — they are what the fee buys. Your boat is measured against the berth before anything is asked of you, and one that does not fit is blocked rather than warned. Then the insurance certificate and the rules acknowledgement, because the port's own regulation requires them.
The port is asked formally, in its own language, and its answer is recorded. If it refuses, you are refunded in full — that is the risk you are paying us to remove.
If you run the harbour office
You are not an obstacle here, you are a party. The notice reaches you in your own language and you answer from a signed link, without creating an account. In return you get something most offices do not have today: a register of who is in which berth and whether their insurance is valid. Your revenue does not change, because the holder pays the annual fee either way. And if we have published something wrong about your port, the same kind of link lets you correct it.
What we verify, and what we do not
We verify the right to let a berth, not the berth itself. Dimensions, depth and condition come from the right holder. We are not a party to the letting, we do not hold the rent, and nothing here is legal advice — the clause is quoted precisely so that you, or your lawyer, can read it without us.
How the answers stay true
Terms get reissued, PDFs get renamed, marinas get sold. So every clause we publish is re-checked against the document at its own address, and the day it was last found there is printed on the port's page. New marinas are located automatically along thirteen coastlines — but no automated step ever concludes that letting is permitted. That reading is done by a person, because a wrong yes puts somebody's boat in a berth without authorisation.
Swept every day across 21 coastlines.