Boat Operators Moltrasio

Boat Operatorsin Moltrasio.

Charter, transfer and the care of your own boat.

Lake Como Province of Como

The stone trades survive here in a way they do not everywhere on the lake. Masons, wallers and the people who understand how a terraced slope actually holds itself up are within reach, and on a Moltrasio house they are the first call rather than the last.

Gardeners, housekeepers, boatmen, plumbers and other household services draw on the Cernobbio and Como labour pool, which is deep and close. The constraint is not finding people but getting their materials to the door: any quotation for a house in the old village should be read carefully for what it assumes about access, and any contractor who has not worked on a stepped lane before will underestimate it.

For how this trade works across the whole lake, what to ask for, how the firms are chosen and what goes wrong, read boat operators on Lake Como. For the village itself, read our guide to Moltrasio.

Editorial note: we have not yet written up how this trade works in Moltrasio specifically, so this page is kept out of search until we have. The introduction itself is unaffected. Ask and we will make it.

On the network

10 skippers

Held across the lake rather than in one village. We introduce the two we would use ourselves for the job in front of you.

01What they do

Skippered days on the water

A day planned around the wind rather than the itinerary, with lunch somewhere that can be reached from the water and a mooring arranged before you arrive.

Transfers and arrivals

Airport, hotel or station to a private landing stage, coordinated with the car so that the two halves of the journey meet.

Looking after an owner's boat

Daily readiness through the season: washing down, fuel, engine checks, mooring lines and fenders, and being on the jetty when the family wants to go.

The winter

Lifting, storage in the right conditions, hull and varnish work, engine servicing, and recommissioning early enough to fix what the winter revealed.

Questions

Do I need a licence to drive a boat on Lake Como?

It depends on the boat: below a threshold set by Italian rules, certain small craft may be operated without one, and above it a licence is required. We do not publish the threshold here, because it is easy to state wrongly. Confirm it with the operator before you book.

In practice most self-drive hire on the lake is arranged around boats that fall inside the no-licence category, and everything larger is offered with a skipper. Even where a licence is not needed, ask the operator to take you out of the harbour and talk you through the afternoon wind before you are left with the wheel.

How much does it cost to charter a boat for the day?

Charter is normally priced by the half-day or day for the boat rather than per person, with the skipper included and fuel either inside the price or billed on use. We do not publish rates.

The type and age of the boat account for most of the difference: a classic mahogany runabout, a modern day boat and a crewed motor yacht are three different propositions. Ask what happens if the weather makes the day unworkable, since a written cancellation position is worth having before August rather than during it.

Where can I keep a boat on Lake Como?

In a marina berth, on a private jetty or in a boathouse attached to a house. Berths are scarce, rarely advertised, and tend to move privately when they move at all.

This is one of the reasons waterfront houses with an existing boathouse or landing stage sit in a category of their own: rights and structures on the water cannot readily be created now. If you are buying a boat before you have somewhere to put it, settle the berth first.

Written by The Como Private Desk

Published 12 May 2026 Updated 31 August 2026

Elsewhere in Moltrasio

Property in MoltrasioHow the Moltrasio market behaves, and what comes up privately.

Boats at MoltrasioCharter, transfers and moorings on this part of the lake.

Eating in MoltrasioHow to eat well here, and how to arrive by water.

Boat Operators in other villages

ComoThe city at the foot of the western branch. Roman in plan, silk in trade, and the one address on the lake that works as a place to live rather than a place to summer.

BellagioThe village on the promontory where Lake Como divides. The most visited address on the lake, and still one of the hardest to buy into.

TremezzinaNot a village but a shoreline: four former comuni strung along the western bank, holding the greatest concentration of gardens and grand villas on the lake.

MenaggioThe town at the western end of the mid-lake crossing, with a working piazza, a golf course above it and a road out to Switzerland behind it.

LaglioA narrow shelf of houses on the western shore between Moltrasio and Brienno, where the mountain comes down almost to the water and everything is reached by steps or by boat.

VarennaThe eastern-shore village at the mouth of the Lecco branch, small, steeply built, and the only address of its kind on the lake with a railway station of its own.

BlevioA villa shore rather than a village: a string of hamlets on the steep eastern bank immediately beyond Como, close enough to the city to be useful and separate enough to forget it.

For people who work on the lake

Are you the bestat what you do here?

The list we introduce from is short and grows slowly: by working with somebody, seeing how a job goes, and only then adding them. If that is the standard you hold yourself to, tell us who you are. We read every one. We check work before we introduce anybody, and no money passes in either direction.

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