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A marina power pedestal at the head of an empty slip with a coiled yellow shore-power cord, the finger pier running out to open water and low hills.

Agreement template

Slip and Dockage Agreement

A berth for a season: the vessel, the insurance, the lines and fenders, the storm plan and who is responsible for what.

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Where this comes from

Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.

Written for your trade

Name your trade during setup — marinas, boat clubs and charters — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use.

It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.

How it reaches your account

  1. Say what you do. Pick your trade when you set up; nothing to find or download.
  2. It is there as a draft. The 11 blanks marked, and 3 points flagged for a lawyer.
  3. Settle the notes, then send. The product will not send it with a note still in it.

How this works for marinas, boat clubs and charters

What it asks you to fill in

Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.

11 blanks in this document

business nameslip numberguest namevessel namevessel lengthvessel registrationstart dateend datedockage feeinsurance minimumnotice days

Each one is a box on the send screen, and a value your own system can pass through the API. The rest of the wording is the same for every signer.

How they are filled

  • Once per send, from what you already know.
  • Or from your own system, through the API.
  • Into the document, never into its wording.
  • What somebody signed is the version they were shown.
Page one of the Slip and Dockage Agreement, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one as the dashboard prints a blank copy: every blank a line, named.

Questions it can ask

Beyond the blanks, a template can ask the signer questions. These come from the product's own question library and suit this document; add them, change them, or write your own.

As the signer sees them
  • Home address
  • Mobile number
  • Start date
  • Emergency contact number
  • Billing referenceOptional

Each question is checked where it is answered — a date that is on the calendar, a birthday that is not in the future, an address long enough to be one — in the same words on the signing page, on the counter tablet and in the API, and the signature waits until every required one is done.

  • Sections. Group questions under a heading, and give a section a page of its own.
  • Conditions. Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it; a hidden question is never asked and never owed.
  • Flags. Put an answer in front of your staff when it needs a person, such as a safety box left unticked.
  • Questions first. Ask them before the document is shown, and the document after.

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What a lawyer has to settle

These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.

SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.

Check what cover and what additional-insured wording you should require where you operate, and whether a marina may require it at all.

Check how the law where you operate treats a marina's liability for a moored vessel, and whether this disclaimer holds.

Check the maritime lien and abandoned-vessel procedure where you operate before relying on this clause.

The document

The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.

Slip and Dockage Agreement

business name lets slip slip number to guest name for the vessel vessel name, vessel length feet, registration vessel registration, from start date to end date for dockage fee.

  1. What this is. Permission to keep the vessel in the slip named, for the period named. It is a licence to use a berth and not a lease of water or land, and the marina may move the vessel to another suitable berth when it needs the space for dredging, repair, weather or the safety of the basin.
  2. The vessel. It is the vessel described, it is seaworthy, and it is mine or is in my lawful care. I will tell business name before I substitute another vessel or change its length or draft.
  3. Insurance. I hold hull and liability cover of at least insurance minimum naming business name where the policy allows it, and I will give proof on request and at renewal.
  4. What I am responsible for. Lines, fenders and the vessel's condition, at all times and in all weather. Shore power cords in sound condition and rated for the load. Fuel, oil and waste kept aboard or taken to the facilities provided, never over the side. Damage the vessel does to the dock, the piles, the utilities or another vessel.
  5. Storms. When a named storm is forecast for this area I will move the vessel or secure it as the marina's storm plan directs, by the deadline the marina gives. If I cannot be reached and the vessel is a danger, business name may secure or move it at my cost, and doing so is not an assumption of responsibility for it.
  6. Not a bailment. business name does not take custody of the vessel, its tender, its equipment or anything aboard it, does not watch over it, and is not responsible for theft, vandalism, weather, fire, sinking or damage from another vessel, except damage caused by business name's own negligence.
  7. Rules of the basin. Speed, wake, pumpout, live-aboard, pets, grilling, hot work, guests and quiet hours as posted. The marina may refuse a vessel or end this agreement for repeated breaches, on notice days days' notice.
  8. Fees and liens. Dockage is due as agreed; late fees and the marina's rights over an unpaid vessel are as the law allows.

By signing I confirm that I have read this, understood it, and meant to sign it.

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