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Nautical Boat Club franchise — is it worth it?
Low risk Stable network Item 19 disclosed
Nautical Boat Club offers a membership-based boat club franchise in the travel and hospitality sector, requiring an initial investment between $396,700 and $697,000.
Everything below is free, read straight off Nautical Boat Club's registered filing, with where the numbers land against travel & hospitality peers. Weighing Nautical Boat Club against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.
Figures above are as disclosed in Nautical Boat Club's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 641181 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.
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How much does a Nautical Boat Club franchise make?
Nautical Boat Club is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $821,828 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every travel & hospitality brand that discloses earnings in the Hotel, travel & hospitality franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.
Nautical Boat Club franchise profit vs. revenue
Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Nautical Boat Club's 6% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Nautical Boat Club franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Nautical Boat Club franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $821,828 of revenue, a 6% royalty alone is about $49,310 a year before any other cost.
Nautical Boat Club lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)
Nautical Boat Club's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.
Nautical Boat Club closures & failure rate
Before you sign, Nautical 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 Nautical 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. Nautical Boat Club's latest tables show a stable franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 4%, against a travel & hospitality median of 4.1% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved 0 to 25 in the latest reported year.
Who owns Nautical Boat Club?
Nautical Boat Club's franchise is offered by Nautical Boat Clubs, 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.
Travel & hospitality franchises at a similar investment level
Anyone weighing Nautical 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.
Nautical Boat Club franchise — frequently asked
Who owns Nautical Boat Club — who is the franchisor?
Nautical Boat Club's most recently filed FDD (2026) names Nautical Boat Clubs, LLC as the franchisor — the entity you would actually sign the franchise agreement with, as stated on the disclosure document itself. A registry filing names the franchisor, not necessarily its ultimate parent company.
How much does a Nautical Boat Club franchise cost?
Nautical Boat Club's most recently filed FDD (Item 7) puts the total estimated initial investment at $396,700 – $697,000, with an initial franchise fee of $60,000 and a 6% royalty. That price is the franchisor's own estimate of what it takes to open, not a quote. Against travel & hospitality peers it sits in the upper quartile (median $3,332,700).
How much profit does a Nautical Boat Club franchise make?
Nautical Boat Club discloses unit earnings in Item 19, but that figure is revenue — sales — not profit. Royalties (6% of gross for Nautical Boat Club), the ad fund, rent, payroll and supplies all come out of it, and no FDD discloses what an owner nets. Any Nautical Boat Club franchise profit number quoted elsewhere is an estimate. The headline figure Nautical Boat Club discloses is $821,828 in average unit revenue.
Does Nautical Boat Club disclose financial performance (Item 19)?
Yes — Nautical Boat Club reports unit-level earnings in Item 19. The headline figure is $821,828 in average unit revenue, as the franchisor states it.
Are there lawsuits against Nautical Boat Club?
No — Nautical Boat Club's most recently filed FDD (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. Franchisors must disclose material litigation involving themselves, their predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 is a genuine signal rather than an omission.
Is Nautical Boat Club a good franchise to buy?
Nobody can answer that from Nautical Boat Club's numbers alone — it comes down to how its investment, earnings, litigation and franchisee churn stack up against travel & hospitality peers and against your own budget. Our read on this filing is low risk. Every figure behind that read is on this page for free. If you're comparing options, the free shortlist on this page matches you with 5–10 franchises that fit your budget and industry.
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