Real ownership, on the water.

I'll keep this short. There are three honest ways to put a yacht in your life right now. You can buy one, and spend $300K–$800K a year keeping it serviceable while actually using it 32 days. You can charter at $14K–$22K per day from a marketplace where coverage and quality vary by owner. Or you can join a club that hands you rotating access to smaller boats for $30K–$60K/yr, fees that consume themselves with no asset behind them.

None of that was the right answer for us, and none of it is the right answer for the buyers we've talked to. RYDA Boats is the alternative: a real ownership stake in a single-purpose LLC that holds title to a specific yacht, alongside up to four other verified members. The Coast Guard documentation is in the LLC's name. We run the operations under a separate services agreement, slip, captain, fuel, insurance, spring commissioning, fall lay-up, hurricane haul-out. You drive the calendar, we drive the asset.

The economics: a ~$195K share in a Wajer 55, plus $32K/year for everything-included ops, gets you up to 30 days a year on the water and a real exit at year three. We model the residual at 85% of buy-in. Boats and cars depreciate differently, classic Rivas can appreciate, big sport yachts compress faster, and we don't pretend the numbers are guaranteed. What you walk away with isn't a return. It's the experience of actually living with a yacht for three years, in real water, without the part-time job.

Miami launches Q3 2026. Create your account to browse the fleet and claim a share when the first hulls go live.