Fishing charters and guides
The booking is one name and a card. Six people show up at five in the morning, two of them are somebody's teenagers, and the mate is holding a clipboard on a wet dock in the dark while the tide does what the tide does.
Not a feature list. These are the three moments this exists for.
The reservation carries one name and one phone number. Five other people are coming, you will not know who they are until they are standing on the dock, and every one of them has to sign before the boat moves.
A minor needs a guardian, the guardian booked the trip and is not on it, and finding that out at five in the morning with the engines running is the worst possible moment to discover it.
Salt, spray, a cooler lid and a summer in a console locker. If something happens in August and somebody asks for the release in February, you need it to exist and to be readable, and paper that has been on a boat is neither.
The person who booked adds the rest of the party; each of them gets their own link on their own phone. Most sign the night before, in the hotel, which is the only time they are sitting still.
A minor on the trip sends the consent to a parent, who signs at the hotel or from home. It is a separate document with a separate signer, not a line on somebody else's form.
Six of six, or five of six and the name of the one who is missing, on a phone at the dock. A QR code on the transom handles the walk-up who was added to the trip an hour ago.
Setup asks what you do. Answer "fishing charters and guides" and these are waiting as drafts, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit them, or paste what you already use.
A starter, not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check. A note left in the text holds the document at send until somebody has.
A starter, not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check. A note left in the text holds the document at send until somebody has.
Written from the document's side rather than the trade's, for when you know the form you are short of.
group waiver · party waiver · participant list · roster waiver
guardian consent · minor waiver · permission slip · parental permission form
text to sign · SMS signature link · text message waiver · mobile signing link
The passenger acknowledges that holding the right licence, stamp or permit is theirs, and that acknowledgment is signed and recorded. Whether they actually hold one is between them and the warden. If a state requires the captain to inspect something, this records that you asked; it does not do the inspecting.
If you are on this list, the words above are your words.
An electronic signature is a signature under the E-SIGN Act and under UETA in the states that have adopted it, and what makes one hold is the evidence behind it: what the person was shown, when, from where, and that they meant to sign. Every signature here carries that. A charter release also sits on top of maritime law, which limits what a passenger release can do in ways that are nothing to do with how it was signed — that part is a question for an attorney who practises admiralty law, and the starter document says so.
No, and you would not want them to. Each adult signs for themselves and a guardian signs for each minor, because a release signed by somebody else is the first thing an insurer looks at and the first thing it throws out.
Nothing. The signatures stay on the record and the trip is rebooked. If the party changes, the new people sign and the old ones do not need to sign again unless you want a fresh date on the document.
Signing needs a connection, which is why the link goes out when the booking is made rather than at the dock. For the walk-up with one bar, the QR and the signing page are small and plain on purpose.

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