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About GoBoat
GoBoat USA is owned in a joint venture by Danish GoBoat and Lavert Phillips, the African American entrepreneur, who started Float DC that is now known as GoBoat, The Wharf.
GoBoat started in Copenhagen in 2014 offering sustainable, social experiences on the water. The company was founded by and is 100 percent owned by Kasper Eich-Romme, Carl Rand and Anders Ekelund Mørck.
GoBoat has 20locations in the world with three in Denmark, five in Australia, four in England, two in the US and one in Germany, one in Italy as well as in Sweden. Worldwide GoBoat operates about 200 rental boats.
Starting with 3 employees, today GoBoat Denmark in a typical year employs about 60 people, including 12 full time employees. Internationally the GoBoat Group employs about 200 people every year.
GoBoat works closely together with local authorities (harbor, police etc.), municipalities as well as several NGOs. GoBoat's approach in each locations is to fit in locally and partner with relevant business and neighbors.
Read more about GoBoat as a company below.
Social sailing
GoBoats are designed with the social experience in mind. Each boat fits 8 people with a picnic table in the middle to create the best social experience.
The Danish "hygge" is a big part of the experience - regardless of which country or location you are sailing in.
The social aspect is also part of GoBoat's culture as we insist on social events, e.g. the yearly season's end party, and having fun while working.
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GoBoat's work with sustainability
As part of GoBoat's DNA, sustainability is important for us. Sailing in clean water is just more fun. Therefore, we work on creating the smallest carbon footprint as possible and protecting the sensitive harbor environment.
We have chosen electric motors rather than gasoline ones. We lend fishing nets to children so they can clean up the water. We often do "clean ups" with various NGOs.
GoBoat culture
To ensure that our guests have extraordinary experiences sailing with GoBoat, our crew of friendly and helpful employees are carefully chosen based on their competences and knowledge and most importantly their great personalities. We work hard on creating the best culture where everyone feels included.
As a seasonal experience company with locations all over the world, we often do exchanges: Colleagues from Australia working in Denmark, Germany, UK and the other way round.
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Run your own GoBoat rental location
GoBoat is the first experience company in the world that offers a unique value proposition for our location partners. We offer a modern low cost boat rental setup that includes all aspects from boat production to IT infrastructure and marketing.
Currently we work with locations partners in Australia, England, Sweden, Italy US and Germany. We are in talks with several new partners in different countries - maybe you could be our next partner?