Websites for boat and yacht brokers: your boats on your own site within the hour, and the enquiry on your desk first
You already keep your boats up to date for the international boat listing sites. The same feed can run a site you own, fast enough to pass Google's real-visitor speed test, where a buyer who may be abroad finds the boat, sends the enquiry to you, and never sees a competitor's stock beside yours.
What it is like now
- Buyers are international and your site is a brochure that loads slowly from another continent.
- The listing portals own the search and charge per boat per month.
- Every listing needs a spec sheet, a survey summary and fifty photos, and the site handles none of it well.
What we build for yacht brokers
- Listings fed from your broker system with full specs, photos, video and documents
- Fast worldwide, in the buyer's currency, with enquiries routed by time zone
- Saved searches and alerts for buyers waiting on the right boat
- Sold boats kept as a track record, which is how brokers win the next listing
What it looks like in practice
A brokerage lists on the international portals and pays per boat per month. Buyers are worldwide and the broker's own site is a brochure that loads slowly from another continent. We build listings fed from the broker system with full specs, photo galleries, video and documents, served fast anywhere, priced in the buyer's currency, with enquiries routed by time zone. Sold boats stay as a track record, which is how brokers win the next listing from a seller comparing agents.
What a website costs for boat and yacht brokers
Most yacht brokers need the Growth tier, from €10,000, delivered in 6 weeks, paid 40% to start, 40% at staging sign-off, 20% at launch. That includes your boats fed from your own system, a page per boat, the filters your buyers use, enquiry capture with alerts, sector pages, structured data, built to score 100 on Google's speed test at launch, and your hosting, domain and code in your name.
After launch, most take the Managed care plan at €195 a month: hosting, SSL, daily backups, software updates, uptime and security monitoring, 2 hours a month shared between content edits and development (no rollover), a monthly report in plain English and a one working day response, month to month with 30 days' notice. If the site you have now only needs its faults fixed rather than replacing, single fixes start at €175 and the free audit names them.
Typical ticket for a boat in your trade is €30,000 to €2,000,000; one enquiry that comes to you instead of to the international boat listing sites covers a lot of website. The full menu, with the five-year comparison, is on the pricing page.
Questions yacht brokers ask
- Our buyers are in other countries and time zones.
- The site shows prices in their currency, loads from a global CDN, and routes the enquiry so someone answers in their morning. The proof site serves two countries the same way.
- Listings need survey summaries and documents.
- Each listing carries a document section with controlled access, so a serious buyer can read the survey and a casual one cannot download it.
- Can we keep the portal listings?
- Yes. Your site becomes the master copy and pushes to the portals, so the specs and photos are consistent everywhere.
Faults we see most on yacht brokers sites
Before anyone talks about a rebuild, the audit usually finds a few of these. Each has its own page with the fix and the fixed price, and none of them needs a new website.
- Slow to start loading · A half day to a day.
- Not built for phones · One to three days depending on the size of the site, or part of a rebuild.
- Mixed content warnings · Usually a half day.
- Website software years out of date · A day, sometimes two.
Check your own site first
Free, on screen in seconds. The faults a buyer who may be abroad actually hits on your homepage, and what each one costs you.
Free, no call. The first findings come up in a few seconds and the full result in about half a minute. We load your site in a real mobile browser the way Google measures it, read your inner pages, your DNS, certificate, email records and sitemap, follow your stock list to the pages for the things you actually sell, and show you the three worst things on screen.
Five questions to ask anyone quoting you, and our answers
- Where is the work actually done?
- Here, by the person you are talking to. Nothing is passed to a white-label shop in another time zone without telling you, because nothing is passed anywhere.
- Who can see my enquiry data, and under what agreement?
- You, and us while we build or maintain it, under a written data-processing agreement. Your customers' details never leave infrastructure in your name.
- What happens on day 31?
- The same as day 1. Fixed-price builds carry a 90-day warranty on defects; care plans run month to month; nothing expires when the invoice clears.
- Who owns the code, the hosting and the domain?
- You do, from the first commit. Your repository, your hosting account, your registrar. Written into the quote. (The one exception is the monthly dealer plan, where the code passes to you when the 12-month minimum is complete.)
- What does Google's own speed test say about it?
- We build to score 100 on Google's mobile test and report the launch-day figure in writing; the final instalment is due when the written acceptance criteria are met, not on a score. ukcarimports.ie scored 88 on 10 October 2026 with real visitors passing all five Core Web Vitals. Run it yourself, on any page of the proof site.
Fifteen minutes about your marina
Tell us how your boats reach the international boat listing sites today and we will tell you how they reach your own site tomorrow, with a fixed price.