How to start a SUP, kayak, jet ski or boat rental
Registering the business, permits, your duties as an operator, customer licences, insurance and the season — per country, from the official texts.
Pick your country
- Albania 40 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Belgium 17 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Bulgaria 41 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Croatia 43 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Cyprus 37 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Denmark 19 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Estonia 18 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Finland 15 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- France 23 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Germany 28 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Greece 47 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Iceland 15 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Ireland 15 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Italy 19 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Latvia 24 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Lithuania 17 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Malta 17 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Montenegro 39 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Netherlands 18 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Norway 19 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Poland 21 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Portugal 14 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Romania 35 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Slovenia 38 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Spain 24 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Sweden 14 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- Türkiye 41 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
- United Kingdom 15 sourced points · checked 17 October 2026
More countries are being researched. A country appears here as soon as its official sources are checked.
How these guides are made
Every point is read from an official text — the law, the regulator, the ministry — and links to it, with the date we checked it.
Points from news or legal commentary are marked as secondary sources.
What we could not confirm is listed as “not confirmed yet”, with who to ask. We never fill a gap with a guess.
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Then run the day with VesselSOS Fleet
Fleet is the rental dashboard we are building with pilot operators for the 2027 season. Your customers' phones are the trackers — no hardware.
Fleet does not replace any permit, licence or duty on this page.