Safety First

Make sure that you discuss with your party the general safety guidelines, such as where to find life vests and how to use them in an emergency. Also, go over with the boat operator or rental service where you can find the appropriate safety flags and flares.

What Is Allowed on the Boat

Alcohol may be allowed on a boat, but depending on the company that you’re renting from, you may be restricted on what you bring onto the vessel. There may be other prohibitions against food, sharp objects, liters, fireworks and more.

Everything comes down to what the owner of the boat wants to permit. You can choose to rent a boat through a party planning service or an official boat rental company. Keep in mind that no one can rent out a boat without the proper licensing.

Know the Laws

If you are not operating the boat, then you can drink alcohol without worry. Drinking while boating is only an issue if you are the one operating the vessel. It’s important to understand that drinking while driving a boat is a crime. It will count as Operating While Intoxicated, or OWI, which is the official term for a DUI. Recent changes in laws make it so that operating a boat while intoxicated may result in your losing your license to drive any vehicle, including your car.

How to Decide When the Party Begins and Ends

Planning bachelorette parties, a “Dirty 30” or just a girl’s night out shouldn’t come with restrictions. But when you’re renting a boat for a party, your service package or planner will need to know a start and end time.

From the time that you book your party, you might want to figure about being on the water for three or four hours. This time frame is usually a good starting point, but discuss it with the other people attending. If your boat party isn’t the only stop that night, you might want to choose a smaller time frame on the boat.

Your boat party will be great as long as you carefully go through safety rules, know the laws, plan ahead and have a start and end time. Keep these tips in mind as you begin planning.

Plan for Everyone

Some of your guests like a boisterous affair. Some like quiet chit chat. Because of this, it can be difficult to plan a successful bachelorette party. The trick is to create event time blocks. For example, during the first part of the party, you’ll maybe have dinner or Happy Hour snacks somewhere. You can open the gifts, play your games, and chat over coffee.
 

In the latter part of the evening, those who want to continue cocktail hour can go downtown, while those with kids and early morning obligations can head home if they wish. If you go with this type of plan, then be sure to put an itinerary of events in your invitations. This allows people to plan for the evening ahead of time.

Hire Transportation for the Night

This is a bit of a corollary to the suggestion above. The plain fact of the matter is many bachelorette parties will include alcohol and, in some cases, not enough to eat to counter the effects of the alcohol. This makes it unsafe to drive and opens up party guests to the risk of getting pulled over and getting a DUI/ DWI. Talk about a mood killer.

Hiring transportation for the night can help you avoid the consequences for driving drunk that could ruin the whole evening altogether. You have plenty of options for party transportation. You can go with a company like Uber or Lyft, hire a limo, or even talk some sober friends into providing your party with transportation for the night. 

Less is More

It’s understandable that you may want your bachelorette party to be a knockout. However, when you immerse yourself in this mindset, it’s easy to try to cram a zillion activities into one big, spectacular display of all things bridal. This leads to over-scheduling, which will just exhaust everyone in the end. Remember, the point of this get-together is togetherness and socializing.

Every activity should come second to the connections that everyone invited will make with one another. In this case, less is more. The fewer activities you plan for the party means the more time everyone has to spend socializing and getting to know one another.

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