Category Archives: Marine

E-sails

e-sails is the online-only arm of world-renowned Kemp Sails. It is a great way of buying top quality sails and accessories online. Clear easy to follow  information helps the customer   choose the right product,

Features:

  • Full e-commerce system plus payment gateway
  • Unique dynamic pricing from entered measurements for mainsails and genoas
  • Pop-up tooltips assist with making an order

Glencoe Boat Club

Boating in the sheltered waters of Loch Leven with its magnificent mountain backdrop is a truly wonderful experience! This site was built to create a central contact point and information centre for the club.

Features:

  • Fabulous full-screen headers and jam packed with information and pictures
  • All club documentation including membership forms online
  • Club calendar 

Craignish Cruises

Skipper and wildlife guide Sean Rowan  skippers Ocean Pearl II into the Corryvreckan whirlpool to view the wildlife and spectacular scenery of the Sound of Jura and Firth of Lorn. Bookings are all taken online via the website.

Features:

  • Online booking
  • Video and wildlife galleries
  • Google Translate built in

Etive Boat Trips

A hard working website  created for a company offering popular boat trips and charters up Loch Etive and around the Firth of Lorn, departing from Dunstaffnage Marina near Oban. 

Features:

  • Front page Facebook feed gives up to date trip reports with pictures
  • Simple availability calendar makes the booking process robust and stress-free
  • Home page slider with captions, plus a big photo gallery

 

MOCRA

MOCRA was formed in 1969 to encourage and foster sailing of cruising and racing multihulls. Webcraft created a new site for the group in 2018, and has hosted and maintained it since then.

Features

  • Online subs payments
  • All club documentation etc. online and downloadable as PDFs
  • For sale/wanted section
  • Extensive Contacts and Links page
  • News section

We also helped the Association recover their domain name after is was maliciously purchased and used by spammers.

West Highland Sailing

Webcraft originally took over the management,, hosting and SEO of this site in 2006, and it quickly became the main source of bookings for the business, which prospered and grew. In 2011 the site was migrated to WordPress. In 2018 the owners retired and LeBoat took over the business and the website, which we still maintain for them.

Features;

  • Interactive zoomable charts of the canal
  • Online manuals
  • A huge amount of local information
  • Videos

West Highland Yachting Week

West Highland yachting Week is one of Scotland’s top sailing events. Webcraft has managed and hosted the site since 2008, during which time it has gone through several iterations and recreations.

Features include:

  • Online entry form
  • Online Payment
  • Twitter feed
  • Sponsor pages linked by logo
  • Home page slide show
  • Extensive photo galleries

As this is a very dynamic event the staff at WHYW are able to update large sections of the site themselves, including Sailing Directions and the all-important Results.

 

SV Stramash

A website created specifically to record the voyages of this Endeavour 44 and her skipper when she sets off into the vast blue yonder next year (2022)

Features:

  • Posts appear in chronological order on home page – perfect format for a log
  • Video gallery
  • Site will allow embedding of real-time tracking data when the boat is at sea 

AS Yacht Services

AS Yacht Services offers a full yacht rigging service in Argyll and anywhere in  Scotland. A young company that already has more work than it can cope with, partly thanks to the online ‘request a quote’ form.

Features:

  • Detailed description of technical services offered
  • ‘Get A Quote’ request form provides an effective call to action
  • Illustrations of recent projects and testimonials from satisfied clients.

Mainsail Marine

Small, no-frills website for a local boat repair business. Designed to perform well for relevant searches (such as ‘fibreglass yacht repair argyll’), this modest site brings in plenty of business. 

Features:

  • Online enquiry form
  • Clear pictures of the type of work undertaken
  • Good search engineperformance for relevant searches
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