BoatUS Towing Service Levels & Pricing

Service Levels and Pricing

Premium Towing Option

Unlimited Gold Saltwater and Freshwater Towing – $157.00 – BoatUS pays the bill within a towing service area. The extra benefit of Unlimited Gold is that it Provides 100% payment for a tow from your home dock or mooring to a repair facility. Of course it provides 100% payment for a tow at sea to your home dock or repair facility and 100% for a tow from a restricted use dock to your home dock or repair facility.

Our Most Popular Towing Option

Unlimited Saltwater and Freshwater Towing – $116.00 – BoatUS pays the bill within a towing service area. This is for all Coastal areas, inland and all of Florida. Provides 100% payment for a tow at sea to your home dock or repair facility. 100% for a tow from a restricted use dock to your home dock or repair facility. 50% payment for a tow from your home dock or mooring to a repair facility.

Unlimited Freshwater Towing – $34.00 – BoatUS pays the bill within a towing service area for tows in fresh water. This is for all inland lakes and rivers, and the Great Lakes. Provides 100% payment for a tow at sea to your home dock or repair facility. 100% for a tow from a restricted use dock to your home dock or repair facility. 50% payment for a tow from your home dock or mooring to a repair facility.

Basic Towing Options

$150.00 per incident Saltwater and Freshwater – $18.00 – BoatUS pays up to $150.00 per incident.

$150.00 per incident Freshwater – $12.00 – BoatUS pays up to $150.00 per incident

Prices are in addition to the $19.00 Membership Fee

When making your choice, keep in mind:

Commercial towing companies charge based on “Portal-to-Portal”. In simplest terms, they charge from the time they leave their port until the time that they return. These charges average $250 per hour! The distance you breakdown from your home port isn’t important. It is the distance you breakdown from the towers homeport that matters. So, even if you only boat close to your port, if the tower’s port is 10 miles away, your cost could exceed the expected.

Soft-Ungroundings – In addition to “Portal-to-Portal” and hourly towing charges, if you find yourself bumped onto a sandbar, non-members may also be charged up to $20.00 per foot of your vessels length to be pulled free. The ungrounding fee is NOT based on the time it takes to pull you free, but rather the length of your boat.

It all adds up:

Let’s look at a scenario – You run soft aground 15 miles from the TowBoatUS home port in your 24 foot vessel.

Example Non-Member Rates:

Time (portal to portal)	Rate	Cost
1.5 hours to scene	$250.00 per hour	$375.00
10 minute ungrounding	24ft @ $20.00 per foot	$480.00
1.5 hours return time	$225.00 per hour (night)	$337.50
		Total
		$1192.50