Marina websites
Marina and boatyard websites that answer the berth question without a phone call
A marina website should answer the three questions the office gets most: what does a berth cost, is there space, and how do I book a visitor berth or a lift-out. We build marina and boatyard sites around those answers, with prices by length, availability or a waiting list, request forms that reach the duty phone, and pages fast enough for pontoon 4G. UK-wide, with a focus on the Solent; fixed prices from £599.
Who visits a marina website
Four visitors, four things they came for
The owner looking for a berth
Searches the river or the harbour with 'berths' or 'marina prices'. Wants the price per metre, what is included, and whether there is a waiting list. A tariff page with the date it applies from wins the search and saves a call.
The visiting skipper
Usually on a phone, often already under way. Wants the approach, the VHF channel, the visitor-berth rate, the fuel berth hours and how to request a berth tonight. That page has to load on a weak signal.
The owner who needs the yard
Searches lift-out, antifouling, winter storage or a repair. Wants the price by length and the booking window. A yard page per service, published before the season, takes these searches from the directories.
The contractor or the supplier
Wants to know who is on site and how to work there. A contractors page with each firm and what they do is also a set of links the contractors will gladly point back at.
The build
What goes into a marina site
The pages are the ones visitors look for and the searches they make. Each page is built to be easy for the office to keep current, because a tariff from two seasons ago does more harm than no tariff.
- Berth and mooring tariffs by length, with what is included and the date they apply from
- Availability, a waiting list or a ‘contact us for space’ status the office can change in a minute
- A visitor-berth request form asking for dates, length, beam and draught, sent to the office and the duty phone
- Approach notes, VHF channel, the depth at the entrance and any tidal limits, with a link to official tide predictions
- Facilities and hours: fuel, pump-out, showers, laundry, parking, the bar or café
- Boatyard pages: lift-out and hard-standing prices, winter storage, services and engine makes, with a booking request
- A contractors and on-site businesses page
- Compressed images and no heavy scripts, so pages open quickly on a pontoon
Search
How the site gets found
A marina competes with the berth-booking apps and the directories for its own name and its river. The site wins back the searches that matter by having the page each one deserves: the tariff, the visitor page, the yard services. The marina's Google profile, built for its own address with the right categories and current hours, handles the map.
The ongoing SEO, from the season calendar to the directories, is on marine SEO.
Starter
£599
The smallest site we build: home, a page for every service, your work or your menu, who you are, and a form that reaches your phone. Not a one-page site
Business site
£1,200
The full site: fourteen to eighteen pages, every service, the areas from Ocean Village to Totton, the people, an enquiry path on every page, and more pages over time with the monthly work
Most marinas need the Business site. Full details are on the pricing page.
Questions marinas and yards ask
What should a marina website include?
Everything a berth-holder or a visiting skipper would otherwise ring the office to ask: berth and mooring prices by length, what is included, current availability or a waiting list, how to request a visitor berth, approach and VHF details, facilities and opening hours, the boatyard's lift-out and storage prices, and the contractors on site. Each of those is a search someone makes, and each needs its own page or section.
Should we publish berth prices?
In most cases, yes. 'Berth prices' plus the marina or the river is one of the commonest searches a marina gets, and a page that answers it ranks and saves the office time. A price per metre with what is included, and the date the tariff applies from, is enough; the page can say that availability varies.
Can visitors book a berth online?
The site can take a visitor-berth request with the dates, boat length, beam and draught, and send it straight to the office and the duty phone. If you already use a berthing or booking system that offers an online link, we put it on every relevant page instead.
Do you show tide times on the site?
We link to official tidal predictions rather than copying them, because published tide tables are licensed data and a stale copy on a marina site is worse than none. What we do put on the site is what only you know: the depth at the entrance, any tidal access limits, and when the lock or the fuel berth is open.
We are a boatyard rather than a marina. Is this for us?
Yes. The same build suits a yard: lift-out and hard-standing prices by length, winter storage, a page per service and engine make you work on, and the contractors who work from the yard. The marine SEO page covers how those pages rank.
You are not on the Solent. How do you know marinas?
We are not, and we say so: the studio is in Wrexham and every build is remote. What we bring is how owners search, which is the same whoever builds the site, and a focus on the Solent and South Coast where so many marinas and yards are. You bring the marina; the site is written from a call with the office and the yard.
See what a skipper finds when they look you up
Send your marina or yard's website. You get the searches owners and visitors make for your river and your services, what your site answers today, and a fixed price for the build.