

Also don’t forget that when you join 1 club, you’re a member of them all.įreedom Boat Club offers you the ulitmate Pacific Northwest boating lifestyle. We are offering a 50% OFF PRE-SALE DISCOUNT if you want to be one of the first members at our new 117th club right in your back yard and save money. We hope you come out and meet us at our booth at the Seattle Home Show and get all your questions answered. We’re working on the website as we get ready for the great Seattle Home Show, prepping your new fleet and moving into FBC Seattle’s flagship home club location at Elliot Bay Marina. We look forward to introducing you to the ultimate easy boating lifestyle. We clean, moor, maintain and insure the fleet so you don’t have to. With Freedom Boat Club you get unlimited access to a new fleet of boats and reciprocal use of over 115 clubs nationwide including Vancouver BC. We own the boats and do all the work you so that you have all the adventure and make all the memories that last a lifetime. At Freedom Boat Club we believe that life is better on the water and that boating should be easy. To learn more about Freedom Boat Club, go to newest on-site business: Freedom Boat Clubįreedom Boat Club is boating adventure made simple. The outing will be followed by a fundraising event at Children’s Beach House. They plan to continue that in 2021, working with Giving Hope Network and Children’s Beach House to take children out on the water for an experience unlike any other. They’ve sponsored the Fourth of July boat parade in Lewes, and donated to Beebe Healthcare and the Rehoboth Foodie/Touch of Italy scholarship fund and other charities. Giving back to the community has been a focus since the Rosellas opened in 2018. For 2021, they’ll be introducing Bayliner, Trophy, NauticStar and Brig Eagle 6.7. Favorites continue to be Cobia center and dual consoles as well as Sweetwater and Cypress Cay pontoons and Sunrays. They continue to offer a variety of different vessel styles and brands to members. They’re also planning to hire about 100 part-time employees for the summer season.

After selling a few, they expect the total across all their locations to be 106 boats. They’re planning to add 64 more boats to their fleet in 2021. “We needed more slip space in southern Delaware,” Rosella said. They’re also planning to open an annex to the Lewes location at the new marina near the Love Creek bridge, where members can enjoy quick and easy access to Rehoboth Bay. Growth continues this year for the Rosellas, as they are opening locations in Delran, N.J., and three in the lower Hudson Valley in New York. They increased their fleet to 19 boats.Ģ020 saw the addition of locations in Bear on the C&D Canal and in Cape May, N.J., increasing the boat total to 45. In 2019, they added locations at the Cape May-Lewes Ferry terminal on Cape Henlopen Drive and another in Somers Point, N.J. Before their first summer season even began, they opened a second location with four more boats in Long Neck at Pot-Nets near Paradise Grill. They started with four boats split between the marinas at Irish Eyes and Riverside Park at the end of Pilottown Road. Rosella opened a Lewes franchise in 2018 with her husband Tom and nephew Josh. Nobody knew where it was going and what it was about they just wanted to get out and get out safely.” By the time summer came around, they had had enough of this COVID thing.

“Everybody was just tired of being cooped up. “People just wanted to get out,” Rosella said. They also recorded more than 5,800 trips, a 180 percent increase over the 2,000 trips recorded in 2019. Locally, Rosella added 317 new memberships last year, a 166 percent increase. “Now, they’re telling their friends how great it is.”įreedom Boat Club is one part of a thriving boating industry that saw one of its most successful years ever in 2020. “You have a bunch of people who were never out on the water before and they’re loving it,” said Bev Rosella, co-owner of the local Freedom Boat Club franchise. When the people of Earth were told to stay away from one another in 2020, outdoor activities like boating and fishing became much more appealing. As it turns out, they liked it.
