Case Study

Find My Boat

Services

Web Design, Web Development

Full product, design, and tech support for boat rental platform.

The project

Find My Boat is a global yacht and boat charter marketplace, positioned as a full-cycle online concierge rather than a listings board. Customers pick a country and a set of dates, search across a self-reported 19,000+ yachts, and book directly.

Charter is an awkward category to put online. The inventory is owned by hundreds of independent operators across dozens of countries, the same boat is priced differently by season and by week, and a booking is a five-figure decision that almost nobody makes without asking a human at least one question. A pure self-service marketplace loses those customers; a pure agency model does not scale. The product has to be both.

What we did

DForce provides full product, design, and technical support for the platform.

Search by country and dates. The entry point is deliberately narrow: two fields, then results. Depth (boat type, cabins, crew, extras) comes after the first result set rather than in front of it.
Direct booking with automatic confirmation. Once payment goes through, the booking is confirmed without a manual step in between.
Payment in full or in installments. A charter booked six months out is rarely paid in one transaction, so the payment flow supports splitting it.
Flexible cancellation surfaced as a first-class promise on the search page, because it is the objection that stops the booking.
24/7 manager support running alongside self-service. A customer can move from search to a human at any step and back again without losing the booking in progress.
Destination pages for the markets that carry the volume - Greece, Croatia, Italy, Spain, France, Turkey - plus the long tail down to the British Virgin Islands, the Seychelles, Martinique and Norway, each with live availability counts.
Hot Offers, curated tours, and a sailing school as separate entry points for customers who arrive without a destination in mind.
A blog, FAQ, and reviews carrying the trust load that a first-time five-figure booking needs.
Newsletter capture with a registration discount, so the traffic that is not ready to book this week is not lost.

Engineering notes

The parts of this build that are not obvious from the outside are the ones that took the work.

16 currencies and three interface languages (EN/RU/UA), applied consistently across search, listing, checkout and confirmation. Currency is not a display filter here: it has to hold through a multi-step payment flow and an installment schedule without drifting.
Availability at marketplace scale. Roughly five and a half thousand yachts in Greece alone means search has to stay fast while inventory and pricing keep changing underneath it.
Mobile-first throughout. Charter research happens on a phone over several weeks and finishes on a laptop, so the entire flow, including installment payment, works at phone width.
Room for a crypto payment path, announced on the site as coming, kept as a separate payment provider rather than a special case wired through checkout.