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Freedom Boat Club franchise — is it worth it?

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Freedom Boat Club operates in the travel and hospitality sector, offering a franchise model with a $50,000 initial fee and a 6% royalty.

Everything below is free, read straight off Freedom Boat Club's registered filing. Weighing Freedom Boat Club against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Freedom Boat Club's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640979 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

Freedom Boat Club franchise profit — what the FDD discloses

Plainly: Freedom Boat Club does not disclose franchise profit or revenue. Its most recent FDD makes no Item 19 financial performance representation, so there is no franchisor-backed earnings figure for Freedom Boat Club — any number quoted elsewhere is an estimate, not a disclosure. The absence is itself worth weighing (50% of travel & hospitality franchisors in our corpus do disclose); the fees, litigation and outlet churn Freedom Boat Club's FDD does contain are on this page. For brands that put earnings on paper, see Hotel, travel & hospitality franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings.

Freedom Boat Club lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Freedom Boat Club's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose 3 legal proceedings in Item 3 . Item 3 is the item where a franchisor must put its material legal history on the record. Two things it is not: it covers the franchisor and its predecessors, parents and affiliates, so a disclosed case is not necessarily a suit against Freedom Boat Club itself; and a disclosure is a fact, not a finding of wrongdoing — most entries are contract disputes with former franchisees, which every large system accumulates. 3 of those proceedings were brought by franchisees against the franchisor — the split that actually matters, because franchisees suing their franchisor is the signal a buyer is looking for. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

Freedom Boat Club closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Freedom Boat Club will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Freedom Boat Club's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a travel & hospitality of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Freedom Boat Club's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 5.2%, against a travel & hospitality median of 4.1% — worse than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +19 to 288 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Freedom Boat Club?

Freedom Boat Club's franchise is offered by Freedom Franchise Systems, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Other travel & hospitality franchises

Anyone weighing Freedom Boat Club is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Freedom Boat Club franchise — frequently asked