The Charters & Boat Tours Suite
A website for fishing charters and boat tours with live NOAA tides and the National Weather Service forecast built in, a booking calendar that shows seats and prices, a trip finder that matches every visitor to the right trip, and an animated route map.
This is the real site running live, not a screenshot. The tides and forecast on it are today’s, for real. Try the Trip Finder, the booking calendar and the route map.Open the full demo on desktop, tablet or phone
Built to fill every boat
Nine pages built by hand, fast on phones, with tools no page builder offers. Everything below works in the demo right now.
Live tides and weather
Real NOAA tide predictions and the National Weather Service forecast for your dock, with a tide chart for any date and your captains’ plain-English call: looks good, breezy or we’ll call you. Free, with no account.
A booking page that sells
Pick a trip, see open dates and departures with seats left, add guests and extras, and see the price, the deposit and that day’s tides before sending the request. Or connect FareHarbor or Peek.
A trip finder
Six questions match every visitor to the right trip, from a family with a queasy grandparent to serious anglers chasing mahi, and fill in the booking for them.
Sunset cruises that time themselves
The sunset cruise departs a set time before the real sunset for any date, so the schedule is right all year, daylight saving included.
An animated route map
Tap a trip and the boat traces its route past the dolphin channel, the lighthouse, the reef and out to the Gulf Stream, with a note at every stop.
What’s biting and the catch log
A month-by-month fishing calendar with the best tide and bait for each species, and a filterable catch log you update in one file.
Set up the Charters & Boat Tours Suite for your business
Charter customers book on the trip, the date and the weather. Set your dock location, trips and seats correctly and the live tides and forecast do the selling.
Set your dock for tides and weather
Enter the NOAA tide station and the location nearest your dock, so tides and the forecast match the water your guests will be on.
Build trips with honest seats and prices
Add each trip with its length, seats and price per person or private charter rate. The booking page shows seats left, so keep it in step with any phone bookings.
Show your captain license and safety gear
Add your Coast Guard captain license and what safety gear is on board. Families and first-timers look for it before they book.
Explain fishing licenses and weather calls
Say whether your charter license covers guests’ fishing licenses, and what happens if weather cancels a trip, such as a full refund or a new date.
Two ways to get your site
Set it up yourself with the step-by-step guide, or send us your details and photos and we’ll do it.
Set it up yourself
- All nine pages of the Kestrel Cove Charters & Boat Tours Suite
- A START HERE guide for your details, dock, tide station, trips, prices, availability and photos
- License for one business
- We fix any problem
We set it up for you
- Your trips, departure times, prices and add-ons
- Your boats, captains, policies and fishing calendar
- Live tides and weather set to your dock and tide station
- Your logo, colors and photos, with booking and reviews connected, ready within 5 business days
- Two rounds of changes before we hand it over
- You host it, or add hosting and edits for $49 a month. Domain name bought by you.
Questions about the Charters & Boat Tours Suite
What pages are included?
Home, Fishing, Tours, the Trip Finder, Book, Tides, Boats and crew, the Catch log and Plan your trip. Every page shares one header, footer and settings file.
Where do the live tides and weather come from?
Tides come from NOAA’s predictions for the tide station you choose, and the forecast from the National Weather Service for your dock. Both are free U.S. government services, loaded live in your visitors’ browsers, with no account or monthly fee.
How does booking work?
Visitors pick a trip, see open dates and departures with seats left, choose guests and extras, and see the price, the deposit and that day’s tides. The request comes to your email. Already use FareHarbor or Peek? Paste your link and every Book button opens it.
What is the Trip Finder?
Six quick questions about the group, kids, seasickness, time of day and budget. It matches each visitor to the right trip, explains why, and fills in the Book page.
Can I change the trips, prices and fish?
Yes. Every trip, departure time, price, add-on, booked date, fish season and catch log post lives in one settings file. The guide walks you through each one.
Can I add a second boat?
Yes. Add each boat with its own trips and seat counts, and the calendar shows them side by side.
Can guests pay a deposit online?
Booking collects the trip, date and guests. Link a deposit through your Stripe or Square account to hold the seats.
Are the demo photos included?
No. The demo uses stock photos to show the finished look. Your download has labeled placeholders with the best size for each photo.
Will my site stay this fast?
It ships scoring 98 to 100 on Google PageSpeed for phones, so your pages show up before visitors give up and tap back to Google. What you add changes that: very large photos, chat widgets and extra tracking codes slow any website down. The START HERE guide shows how to shrink your photos and test any page for free at pagespeed.web.dev, so you can keep it fast.