Yacht.com Blog

We want Yacht.com to become your home port for your boat and your boating interests on the web; an open platform not just for boating news and information but also a safe and convenient hold for your yachting identity with an e-mail address and a place to store information important to your boating experience.  We plan to have a public side of Yacht.com where you can show information and discuss boating and also a private side where you can store boat and maintenance data, privately receive information from manufacturers and vendors in a way that you control, and construct your own customized topics of interest so we can scour the boating web community to alert you of web sites, blogs and articles of interest.  Our plan is to be an open platform, and that means our goal will be to find and alert you to resources and information of interest throughout the web, not to keep your “eyeballs” captive on our site.

For each feature we are always asking ourselves – will this be valuable?  Is this simple?  Is this the most elegant and practical way to do this?  It just has to make sense.   We’d like to share our vision of the site as it is and what’s soon to come so we are publishing this short slideshow of what the next few steps will be.  We want feedback and we’ll keep writing here about development as we bring out new pieces of the picture.

Click below to see our plans.

Yacht.com Vision

Over the past few days we have rolled out our new Beta version of Yacht.com – just as many of you may be launching your boats for the northern summer season.  The team at Yacht.com has been brainstorming, designing our site, and laying our keel and now we’ve started rolling out features.  This is the first installment on a set of features and improvements that we think you will be very excited to be a part of.

We know how powerful this community can be for connecting you as a boater to the information, resources and enjoyment you need, while having it in a simple place and helping you stay in control of your information and privacy. We have stuck to the basics and are happy to have a place now for you to dock your boat online.  We know this is unique in its own right and are happy that you can come to Yacht.com and find a reliable, growing and interesting mix of news articles you can easily view while we build additional features to make this home port a compelling one.

Just like any great and lasting yacht that is imagined, designed and built – there is a long road from the day that first stringer is laid, or the hull skins are laminated to the day she crosses an ocean.  It also takes a lot of input from builders, engineers, designers and boaters along the way.  We have built the hull, laid in the structure and now we are adding all of the layers and mechanics to make her a true home port for you and your boat.

Consider yourselves part owners of Yacht.com – just as excited as we builders are to see her completed, made unique, polished and ready to roll out of the shed for commissioning in the next few months.  We want you to be informed of new features, we want your input on what dream concepts you have for something you wish there was a place to do on the web.  We do a lot of storyboarding here (technical design storyboards, as well as the story of how our users and partners should interact) and we wanted to share with you the story of some of the features we have in yacht.com, along with many of them we are currently working on rolling out next.  This development blog will serve as our communication link with you, so check back often and leave us a comment.