Free Ft. Lauderdale Dockage

For those sellers want to move their boat to Florida to be in the top yacht sales market in the US and the world please consider our Free Dockage Program.

If your yacht is for sale, priced correctly and in good condition, but has not gotten the visibility it deserves, Bradford Marine Yacht Sales’ undercover showroom provides a unique, all-weather environment, to showcase your yacht in the heart of the yachting capital of the world.

Our Boat Show atmosphere and 15 acre shipyard ensure that many megayacht buyers, captains, and yachtbrokers will see your vessel. Yacht buyers from all over the world come to Ft. Lauderdale to buy megayachts. By having your listing located in our yacht sales Showroom you will compel them to consider yours.

As a general guideline our Free Dockage Program applies to powerboats only, with values of $200,000 and greater that are priced correctly. Please contact us to see if your yacht qualifies.

FREE DOCKAGE PROGRAM BENEFITS

• Your yacht is located in the heart of the yachting capital of the world, maximizing your visibility to both yacht buyers and yacht brokers.
• You pay no fee for dockage and there are NEVER ANY CHARGEBACKS for dockage whether we sell your yacht or you cancel the listing. (regular dockage rates are $1.25 per foot per day)
• By not paying for dockage yacht owners reduce holding costs during the yacht sales process.
• Shore side services are billed at 50% of normal shipyard rates.
• We are a Hurricane Hole.
• Location in our yacht Showroom provides an everyday Boat Show atmosphere.
• Your yacht listing will receive walk in traffic from buyers and yachtbrokers unlike sitting behind someone’s house.
• Dockage is located undercover prolonging the life of paint and wax.
• Your showing never gets rained out since we are located undercover
• Our Free Dockage Program applies to powerboats only, with values of $200,000 and greater that are priced correctly. Please contact us to see if your yacht qualifies.

Megayacht Rewards Program

Enhanced Advertising and Marketing is also available for select megayachts through our Megayacht Rewards program on a case by case basis. If your megayacht is admitted to our rewards program, you will recieve all of the benefits listed above plus the following.

MEGAYACHT REWARDS PROGRAM BENEFITS:

• Free Dockage: FREE undercover dockage for qualified central listings in the Bradford Marine Yacht Showroom – A year-round boat show in a convenient, inviting, all-weather megayacht facility on Fort Lauderdale’s Marina Mile displaying over 40 yachts each day.
• Shared Page Advertising – If a clients wishes we will split the cost of a dedicated full or half page ad in the boat show issues for our print mediums. For example; if the cost of a full page in Power and Motoryacht costs $2,000 we will split the cost with our clients.
• Virtual Tour videos
• Creation of individual yacht web pages
• Five Percent (5%) Shipyard discount
• Free Annual Haul Out
• Free Emergency Air Support throughout the Bahamas
• Free Emergency Towing Service
• Free New River Towing
• Airport Shuttle Service
• Parts Delivery Support
• Priority Shipyard Bookings during peak times

In addition to the above benefits, sellers in our Free Dockage Program also receive the following advertising exposure for their listings:

Print Publications:

• Yachts International
• Power and Motoryacht
• Southern Boating
• Showboats
• The Triton

US MLS Sites

• BradfordMarineYachtSales.com
• Yachtworld.com
• Boats.com
• Yachtcouncil.com
• Oodle.com
• MarineSource.com
• BoatTrader.com
• YachtTrader.com

European Sites

• Seaclub.lv (Latvian site)
• Yachtrevue.at (Austrian Site)
• boatprice.ru (Russian Site)
• boatyard.ru (Russian Site)
• Seatow.de (German site)

Optional Boat Show Participation
All of our listings are invited to attend three of the largest boats shows in the world. Costs vary, and we will work with you to decide which boat show, if any, is best for marketing your yacht.

• Ft. Lauderdale
• Miami
• Palm Beach

Broker Broadcasts
We maintain an up to date list of hundreds of the yacht sales industry’s most active yacht brokerage companies and their individual yachtbrokers. We do regular broadcasts to this database with newsworthy updates on our listings. This includes when we release new listings, price changes, locations changes, or when major work is completed.

Shipyard Database
Since 1966 we have been compiling a database of some of the most well known yacht owners and megayacht captains in all of yachting. Depending on the size of yacht we are marketing, we promote to this list periodically throughout the year.

Custom Internet Pay Per Click Campaigns
We will work with owners to design a custom landing page, choose listing appropriate keywords, and write Google ad copy that will ensure your listing is in the top section of Google paid ads when your keywords are entered into the search engine. We create the landing page and write the ad copy at our cost, and clients pay for the clicks. Ask if this is a good program for you!