Z Marine

The whole range, boarded from anywhere.

The client steps aboard the boat they care about without it being on the pontoon: they move between decks, open the cabins, look at the specification combinations and work out whether it is theirs. The yard stops selling with a brochure.

A boat cannot be explained in words.

Buyers want to know whether they can stand up in the cabin, whether the sofa faces the sea and where the tender ends up. A spec sheet does not answer any of that.

What you can put in it.

The boats a yard builds, with their specifications, from the smallest to the largest. The client moves from one model to the next as they would leaf through the price list, except they step inside.

  • Flybridge

    Three decks walked in sequence, and the comparison every buyer makes: three cabins or four. You see it by moving between the two versions, not by reading two spec sheets.

  • Sport

    Low profile and an opening hardtop: the question is always how much room is really left below deck, and below deck is where you go.

  • Displacement

    Long volumes, beach club, full-beam cabin. These are distances a photograph flattens and that only make sense once you walk them.

  • Explorer

    Working decks, cranes, lockers. Someone buying a boat like this looks at where the equipment sits before looking at the saloon, and here they can.

One catalogue, many ways to explore it.

The same catalogue serves four different trades, and each uses a part of it. Whoever builds the boat publishes it, whoever sells takes it into the negotiation, whoever charters puts it in the booking flow, whoever refits uses it as a record of condition.

Shipyards and builders

The whole range digitised once and used everywhere: on the website, across the dealer network, at boat shows and in the showroom. Every model with its specifications.

Dealers and brokers

You can show the boat you do not have on the pontoon, and for brokerage the condition stays documented at a precise date instead of resting on a set of photos.

Charter

Anyone booking a week actually sees the cabins they are taking, and chooses knowing where their guests will sleep. Fewer queries, fewer misunderstandings at boarding.

Refit and service

The condition before the work and after it stay side by side. That comparison is what a surveyor, an insurer and the owner actually need.

It hooks onto what you already have.

Nobody changes their systems for us. Files come from wherever they sit today, the price list stays yours, and enquiries come back through the channels you already read.

Our technology partners.

The infrastructure the service runs on, and the one partnership it has.

AWS
Cloudflare
Google Cloud
Infomaniak
Microsoft
Netlify
PocketBase

The questions we always get.

The first seven, answered the way we answer them on the phone.

What file do we need to put a boat in the catalogue?

A GLB or a USDZ. If the yard already has the model, start from that; if not, scan it with an iPhone or iPad Pro from 2020 onwards. Neither route needs an app of ours.

Who does the scanning?

You do, with the phone already in your pocket and a third-party scanning app. If you would rather send us the raw files, we process them and hand back a finished model.

How much does it weigh on our own site?

Nothing, if you publish a link or a QR code: the boat opens on a page of ours. If you want it inside your own listings, the embed is one line of HTML and the model downloads only when somebody opens it.

What does the customer see on a phone?

The boat turning, the decks they can walk through, and measurements taken on the model. On iPhones and recent Android devices they can also place it at 1:1 scale in the room in front of them.

Do we need a connection at the dock or at a boat show?

To open a model the first time, yes. After that it stays on the device for the session, so a weak connection does not mean starting from scratch every time somebody opens it again.

Where are the models kept?

On servers in Switzerland. Any published link can be withdrawn from the panel, and from that moment the address stops showing the model.

What happens when a boat is sold?

You take it out of the public catalogue and the link stops answering. The model stays in your archive, ready to go back online for a sister ship.

Talk to us about the range.

How many models, how many variants per model and where they are needed: website, sales network, boat show.

We reply with a view on timing and on the order worth digitising the range in.

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