Rental boats: GoBoat launches picnic boats in Aarhus

Jill Grigoleit

· 21.06.2024

Rental boats: GoBoat launches picnic boats in Aarhus

Photo: GoBoat/ Andrew Rogala

The boat hire company GoBoat is expanding its range with a hire station for electric excursion boats in Aarhus. With the location at Pier 2, the boat hire company offers its customers the opportunity to sail from the marina in Aarhus along the coast of Riis Kov towards Den Permanente, one of the region's most popular beaches. The hire boats have room for eight people and are equipped with a bathing ladder. A driving licence is not required.

GoBoat has been offering hire boats in various countries since 2014. Their trademark are small electric picnic boats. But until now, GoBoat's hire boats were not suitable for swimming directly from the boat. The company is represented in Australia, the USA, Germany, Sweden and England and has just opened another centre in Venice. But at none of these locations is it possible to swim from the boats. In Aarhus, a new "swim-friendly" model with a swim ladder and anchor is now being trialled for the first time.

"We are looking forward to taking the people of Aarhus and tourists on these cosy trips," explains Anders Mørck, CEO of GoBoat.

Before the trip, each guest receives instruction on how to handle the boat and the correct behaviour on the water. All boats are of course equipped with life jackets. To further increase the safety of guests, a service boat from the hire centre will patrol the area - at a sufficient distance to ensure privacy, GoBoat promises in a press release. If required, the service staff will help guests to moor and unmoor in the harbour and select a suitable anchorage off the beach.

Jill Grigoleit

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Jill Grigoleit was born in Hanover in 1985. An early childhood memory is the large collection of YACHT and SURF magazines from her sailing and surfing enthusiast father. However, growing up in a small Swabian village on the Neckar, she had less to do with water sports in her childhood, apart from a few trips to the Baltic Sea with her family. After studying journalism in Bremen and Hanover, she went into television for a few years. Through a few lucky coincidences, she ended up on the water in 2011 and then returned to the written word professionally. For over ten years, she lived with her family on a houseboat in their own harbor south of Hamburg and wrote a book about houseboat building and life with children on the water. Since 2020, she has mainly been writing travel reports and features about people who live and work on and near the water for BOOTE. She has been a permanent member of the Delius Klasing water sports editorial team since January 2024.

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