Websites for marine services
A boatyard website that works like a well-run dock
Boat repair, moorage, haul-outs and marine trades on the BC coast. Built around the season, because your customers are.
A boat owner’s year has a shape: spring commissioning, summer running, fall haul-out. Your site should know which part the visitor is in.
Most BC boatyard websites are a phone number and a photo from 2011. A working one takes haul-out and service bookings for the season ahead, states moorage and yard rates plainly, and shows the yard, because the owner is choosing where to leave something they love.
Design around the season, not the org chart
A boat owner thinks in calendar, not departments: what do I need before launch, who can lift me out in October, where does she winter. Organise the site the same way: commissioning in spring, haul-out and winterisation from late summer.
Under the $99 plan the emphasis shifts with the season, so the fall visitor lands on haul-out booking.
Why showing the yard wins the moorage decision
The owner is leaving a five- or six-figure possession in your care for months. Rates matter, but the operation decides it: the docks, the lift, the blocking, the tidiness of the hardstand.
Current, honest photographs of your actual yard sell harder than any copy.
See the thinking, built: a full marine concept site
Windrose Marine Services is a concept site for a fictional ship-services company, told as one working day at the Port of Vancouver: freighters at anchor before dawn, a graving dock that pumps out as you scroll, a duty desk that answers at 23:00.
Walk through the concept build → Windrose Marine Services is a fictional business. Every name and number on it is invented and labelled as such.
The sparse-market advantage
Search any BC harbour town for boat repair and count the current websites. A fast, phone-friendly site with real rates is often the only credible-looking option in the map pack.
The build also sets up and verifies your Google Business Profile, so the map result and the site give the same name, address and phone.
Questions people ask before they hire
How much does a boatyard website cost?
$1,999 one time for a multi-page site organised around the boating season, plus $99 a month for hosting and two small edits, back within 48 hours, which keeps the seasonal emphasis current.
Can the site take haul-out bookings?
Yes: a booking integration or a request form for vessel, length, draft and dates, depending on how your yard schedules. The first call becomes a confirmation, not an interview.
We publish moorage rates by the foot. Can the site?
It should. A plain table of your real, current rates answers every moorage inquiry’s first question, and the $99 plan keeps it current.
Our yard is not photogenic. Does that matter?
No. A working yard needs to look competent and current, not pretty. Honest photos beat stock marina sunsets.
See your site the way a boat owner does in October
The free audit uses your site like an owner planning a haul-out, on a phone at the dock, and shows where the booking gets lost.
The free Field Test: your site tested the way a customer uses it, back within 24 hours with a fixed price. Five fields, no call.
Last updated 2026-08-31