Yacht dealer websites for buyers who research quietly.
Custom Squarespace sites for yacht dealers and brokers — built so serious buyers find full specifications, real photography and honest detail before they ever declare themselves. Fixed price agreed before we start, and you own everything.
A yacht buyer does months of anonymous research before speaking to anybody.
Nobody enquires early on a purchase this size. They browse repeatedly, compare specifications, study photography and build a shortlist entirely in private. If your listings are thin or the imagery is poor, you are eliminated during a process you never knew was happening.
Most yacht dealer websites
The thin-listing problem
Small galleries, partial specifications, and "POA" on everything. A buyer comparing four brokers will simply spend their attention on the three who published properly.
The invisible problem
Buyers search by make, model, length and year. A site that does not structure listings around those terms is absent from the entire research phase.
What we build instead
A site with full specifications, photography at scale, honest condition detail, and a discreet route to contact for when the buyer is finally ready.
- Listings
- Full specifications
- Photography
- At scale
- Condition
- Honest detail
- Contact
- Discreet, when ready
Built for how yacht buyers actually research
Every element below exists because it changes whether you survive a shortlisting you never see.
Listings with full specification
Length, year, engines, hours, layout, condition. Buyers compare on detail, and a thin listing is eliminated silently.
Photography at scale
Large, fast-loading galleries covering the whole vessel. At this price point imagery is the survey before the survey.
Search by what buyers use
Make, model, length, year and price band — structured properly rather than a single scrolling list of everything in stock.
Discreet contact
A private, low-key route to enquire, because buyers at this level do not want to declare themselves to a mailing list.
Brokerage credibility
Associations, history and transaction experience surfaced, since the buyer is trusting you with a very large transfer.
Fast despite heavy media
Properly optimised so image-heavy pages load quickly, including from a phone on a marina connection.
Three things we know about high-value marine buyers
The shortlist is built before you are contacted.
By the time a buyer enquires they have usually narrowed to two or three. Everything that decides that happened on your website without any visible signal.
Detail is not optional at this price.
Buyers spending seven figures read specifications closely. Missing hours, vague condition notes and POA pricing all read as a broker with something to hide.
Discretion matters as much as information.
High-net-worth buyers avoid anything that looks like lead capture. A quiet, direct contact route converts better than a gated brochure.
How your yacht dealer website gets built
Four stages, in the same order every time. How long each takes depends on the size of the site — you get the timeline in writing before anything starts.
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01
Discovery
One call and a short form. Which work is most profitable, which you want more of, and what clients ask before they commit.
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Copy first
Every page written for you and sent as a document to review. You approve what the site says before you see how it looks.
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Design & build
Built custom from a blank canvas — desktop and mobile — with SEO, schema and analytics wired in as we go, not bolted on after.
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Launch & handover
If you have an existing site, every URL is redirected so rankings hold. Then training, 30 days of support, and full ownership in your name.
We launch, rebuild, grow and maintain yacht dealer websites.
Two fixed-price projects to get the site right, two monthly retainers to keep it working. Most clients start with a project, then add one retainer.
You have the direction. We build it properly.
For companies with their design and content already settled, or moving from another platform without changing the substance. The thinking is done — this is the part where it gets built and lands without incident.
Everything reconsidered, then rebuilt around it
For companies where the site is not just dated but wrong — the wrong message, the wrong structure, aimed at the wrong buyer. We start with what it should say and work outward from there.
Visibility that compounds instead of resetting
Fewer buyers reach a results page at all now — they ask an assistant and act on the answer. Being the source that answer draws on is the work, and it is won slowly rather than switched on.
The web team you would hire, without the headcount
For companies that want the site run rather than repaired. Someone who knows it inside out, works to your rhythm, and gets to things before you have noticed them.
Grow and Maintain can run together after any project. Not sure which you need? The discovery call settles it in thirty minutes.
Questions yacht dealers ask us
Will we lose our current search rankings?
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No. Every URL is mapped and 301-redirected before launch, including listing pages, and rankings are measured either side.
What does a serious buyer need on a listing?
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Full specification on the page — year, LOA, beam, draft, engines, hours, tankage, lying location and asking price. Buyers filter before they enquire, and a specification locked in a PDF effectively does not exist.
Should asking prices be published?
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Generally yes. Price on application signals discretion to you and evasion to the buyer, and serious purchasers filter by budget first. Where an owner requires confidentiality, that listing can be handled differently.
How much photography is enough?
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More than most dealers publish, at full scale. Exterior, interior, engine room, helm and detail. A buyer considering a seven-figure purchase is looking for reasons to fly out and see it.
Should brokerage and new sales be separated?
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Yes. A buyer looking at pre-owned brokerage stock and one specifying a new build are on completely different journeys, and one combined listings page serves neither well.
How should enquiries be handled discreetly?
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A named broker, a direct line and a short form rather than a general contact page. High-value buyers expect to reach a person, not a shared inbox.
Can it connect to our listings feed?
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Usually yes. The main marine listing networks and multi-listing feeds can populate the site through feeds or embeds, and we scope exactly what your platform supports before quoting.
Do we need pages per builder or model?
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Yes. Buyers search a specific builder, model or size class, and those are the highest-intent searches in the sector. A single fleet page competes for none of them.
Can our brokers update listings themselves?
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Yes. Listings, prices, status changes and photography are all editable in-house, with a recorded walkthrough of your own site. If nobody has time, there is a management retainer.
What does it cost, and who owns the site?
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Projects start from $3,750, with the exact figure set by page count, functionality and whether existing content is being migrated. You get a fixed number in writing before anything begins — no hourly billing and no scope surprises. Full detail on the pricing page. You own the result outright: the domain, the Squarespace account and every piece of content are in your name from day one, with no agency lock-in.
Be the broker they call.
Thirty minutes, free. We work out what the site needs to do and tell you straight whether we're the right team for it. Not ready to talk? Have us pull your current site apart on video instead.
