For people buying their first boat
Seven listing sites gathered every six hours, private sellers included. Duplicates collapsed, photographs kept even after the advert comes down, and every boat measured by how you would actually get it home.
What it does today
Not a marketplace. It watches the places boats are actually listed — including the ones with no search worth using — and keeps a record you own.
Working now
Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, Kijiji, eBay, BoatCrazy, GovDeals and PublicSurplus, gathered on a schedule you set. Private sellers, not just brokers.
Working now
Sellers cross-post. A boat on three sites is one row here — matched on price, distance, length, the wording of the advert and the photographs themselves.
Working now
Every picture is copied and kept. When the ad comes down, you still have what the boat looked like and what it actually sold for — the only honest comparable there is.
Working now
Facebook and the broker sites block automated searching. Save the page from your browser into a folder, link it once, and new listings come across on their own.
Working now
Love it, maybe, or pass — and a notes box on every row. Yours alone: two people looking at the same boat keep their own opinions of it.
Working now
An email when new boats match, on your schedule and in your timezone. Price drops are tracked, so a boat that has sat unsold for a month is obvious.
The part nobody else does
A boat four hours up the interstate needs a trailer you may not own and a ramp that fits it. A boat four hundred miles away by canal can be driven home over a long weekend. Those are not the same problem, so they are not sorted the same way.
Locks counted, canal routes followed, air draft flagged where a bridge would stop you. It shows as a coloured rail down the edge of your list, so you see it before you read a word.
Already on your lake or bay. Drive over, hand over the money, drive it home.
0 locksReachable entirely by water, through canals and locks. A trip, not a haul.
400 nm · 12 locksConnected, but far enough that you are planning fuel stops and overnights.
640 nm · via ErieNo water route at all. Needs a trailer, a truck that can pull it and a ramp.
road miles onlyBeing built next
The part that matters most if this is your first one. Not more listings: better questions, and someone in your corner who has read the forums so you don't have to.
“Lots of space below deck. Deal breaker: it has to have air conditioning and a generator.” No keyword lists, no radius sliders — say it the way you would say it to a friend.
Your must-haves checked against what the seller actually wrote, and the gaps surfaced — the questions worth asking precisely because nobody answered them.
A short, natural note asking the one or two things that matter most — not a barrage that gets ignored. The long list comes after they reply.
Owner forums read for you. “This engine in this year had a known issue” is the kind of thing that separates a good buy from an expensive lesson.
Photographs that appear under several different sellers, prices well below what the boat should fetch, wording copied between listings.
When to get a surveyor and what to tell them. What a sea trial should cover. The tanks, the paperwork, the things nobody warns a first-time buyer about.
“I didn't know to ask about the gas tanks, or that I needed a surveyor, or what to tell one.”
Why this is being built
Getting started
STEP 01
Your home port and how far you would travel. Everything is measured from there, by water where there is a water route.
STEP 02
A price range and the kind of boat you are after. Add the sites that need saving by hand if you want them — it takes a minute, once.
STEP 03
It gathers on your schedule and emails you when something new matches. Open the list when you feel like looking.
An account takes a minute. You will need an invite code — this is a small thing built for friends, not a marketplace with a growth target.
NO ADVERTS · NOTHING SOLD ON · YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS