PierShare is an innovative online platform that enables boaters to search for and rent private dock spaces. Our platform provides a more flexible solution for renting a dock than any comparable marina through our 30 Day Flexible Docking Guarantee. Whether you are an active owner involved in the nitty gritty of selling your vessel or a yacht broker/salesman managing a vessel sale, PierShare is designed to make the process so much easier. In fact, it is the ultimate docking solution when selling a boat.

Docking Flexibility

Renting a dock during a boat sale in a marina is a cumbersome process. Marinas are very inflexible. While some offer shorter term contracts on 3, 6, or 9 month arrangements, they still come with notice period requirements and penalties for early termination.

Our platform takes an entirely different approach. We know that when you’re selling a boat there is a lot of uncertainty and that it’s almost impossible to predict how long it will take to sell your vessel. It takes on average 8 months for boats 25ft - 35ft to sell, and this number goes up to almost 12 months for boats 46ft - 55ft. With fixed contracts in marinas that span discrete blocks of time, it’s incredibly difficult to choose the exact contract length.

An Offer Can Come In At Any Moment

You don’t know if you’re going to get offers on your vessel, and at the spur of the moment someone could come out of nowhere with a very compelling offer on the vessel that seems very promising. When you’re in the final stages of closing a deal on your boat, the last thing you ever want to think about is having the sale of your boat revolve around the termination of a dockage contract in a marina.

Selling a boat is already difficult enough as it is, and any additional friction can actually cause the sale of a boat to fall through. And when you do receive an offer and the sale of the boat is going through its final stages, until the sale finally closes you won’t know when the boat actually leaves the dock, because it will partly depend on when the new owner wants to move it.

PierShare Works Around You

PierShare is designed to work around you while you’re selling your boat. Our platform is entirely flexible, and there are no fixed contracts that you have to choose from since all dockings are processed on a month-to-month basis.

Furthermore, because we have no notice period requirements, you can focus on closing the sale of your boat instead of ending a docking contract. And whenever the boat is ready to leave the dock, just press the button to end your docking in your account and our automated systems take care of all of the payment processes.

Benefits For Yacht Brokers

Yacht Brokers and salesman can take advantage of PierShare to make the vessel management process easier. As a yacht broker, you spend hours of your day on the phone with clients managing their vessels. When you’re tasked with finding a dock space to sell a vessel, you want to minimize the time spent on the process. That way, you can focus on actually selling the boat and making your clients happy. In fact, sometimes securing the dock space to sell the boat can determine whether you can attach yourself to the sale or not.

PierShare helps yacht brokers by offering them unique dock spaces to rent that previously were not available. When you find a dock you are interested in, you no longer need to spend time on the phone calling a million dock owners to see if their docks are available. Instead, you can simply fill out our short electronic inquiry form. This is quicker than spending hours on the phone, repeating the same information about the vessel over and over again. Thus, you save time, which can be put towards servicing your clients more productively.

PierShare Helps Yacht Brokers Managing Multiple Boats

As your yacht brokerage business grows you’ll end up managing multiple boats. As a result, you will inevitably need docks for those vessels. The benefit of PierShare is that:

1. We make the process of finding a dock really easy; and
2. You enjoy the same set of standardized policies across all of your dockings.
   
   

So, if you have multiple boats docked that you are selling, you can rest easy knowing that once any of those boats sell, the process of ending a docking is as easy as pressing a button in the PierShare app.

Check Out Our Docks

Selling a boat is a bittersweet experience, and we at PierShare are passionate about making it an easy process. From discovering the perfect dock, to securing it, to actually docking there and then selling your boat, our suite of advanced technology paired with the most flexible and forward-thinking dockage agreement in the industry makes PierShare the ultimate docking solution when selling a boat. Check out our docks and inquire about one today!