A hand holds a phone showing a chat on a marina dock, a white fishing boat blurred behind.

11:40pm · can't sleep

Fishing charter website design: The trip planning starts late. Your chat doesn't mind.

He wonders about a half day on the flats. The chat drafts a trip request for the captain to read.

Mile Zero Charters is a sample fishing charter we invented. Its whole website is in the frame below, and every page works.

Mile Zero Charters— Key West, FLSample business

7 pages · every one works: use the site’s own menuAll 22 finished sites

Mile Zero Charters

How it works

How the chat works, in four steps.

From a guest's thumb to the captain's inbox. The fish are not involved yet.

  1. The chat

    A guest taps the chat.

    Illustration: a guest taps a chat button on his phone at the marina dock while a curious pelican peers over his shoulder and the captain smiles.
  2. A few taps

    It asks who, when and how long.

    Illustration: the guest types on his phone while three abstract question bubbles float above it, the captain and the pelican both raising an eyebrow in approval.
  3. The request

    Fish are a wish. The details are exact.

    Illustration: the captain in reading glasses admires a neat abstract trip card on a tablet while the guest looks on and the pelican models his bucket hat.
  4. The reply

    A person confirms by email or a call.

    Illustration: the captain gives a thumbs-up and the guest cheers as his hat tumbles and the pelican flaps its wings in celebration.

A day at the dock

A day at the dock.

What the chat does while the captain is busy being a captain.

  1. A fishing boat near a mangrove island at dawn, rods angled over calm water.

    Before sunrise.

    The captain reads the overnight requests with the forecast open. Every one has the party, ages and notes.

  2. A phone showing a chat, held on a marina dock beside a white boat.

    A guest has a question.

    Late at night the chat answers about licences, weather and what to wear. It answers from the crew's own notes.

  3. New trip requestTrip · dates · anglers · experience · notes

    The request lands.

    One email: trip, dates, anglers, experience, notes. A person replies.

  4. Spinning rods and reels waiting in rod holders on a white boat.

    Dock day.

    A person has confirmed. The briefing comes first, then the lines go in.

Local detail

Local facts, named and sourced.

A site built for your harbor says what is true about it. The sample's Areas page uses these three, each with its source.

  • Mile marker 0US 1 mile markers count up from zero in Key West.Wikipedia, Overseas Highway
  • 90 Miles to CubaThe Southernmost Point buoy, dedicated on 10 September 1983. Cuba's closest point is 94 statute miles due south.Wikipedia, Southernmost Point Buoy
  • A national marine sanctuaryThe waters of the Florida Keys are within Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.NOAA

What's on it

What's on a fishing charter website.

  • The trips All eight, from 2 to 8 hours, with a two-tap finder.
  • The crew Captain Ray, mate Tessa, the boat and why the briefing comes first.
  • Questions Check-in, licences, catching fish, what is included and how a request works.
  • Areas Mile marker zero, the Southernmost Point buoy and the sanctuary.
  • Request a trip A request, not a booking; the chat opens beside the form.

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The front page

Its front page carries eight trips with the length on every plaque, and a briefing before the lines come off.

The line worth reading

Will we catch fish? “We cannot promise it. Fishing is not catching, which is why it is called fishing.” A target fish is a wish, not a promise, and the chat takes no deposit and prices nothing.

Why it looks like that: A logbook, not a brochure: a menu that is a ruler of mile markers counting up from 0, a teal panel beside a tall photograph with a mile-marker plaque, trips as square plaques with a mono strip, and a day on the water as a numbered log. Every site we build gets its own structure, not the same page in another colour.

What it does

What it does for fishing charters and boat tour companies.

A father and daughter seen from behind hold fishing rods at the bow of a boat over bright blue water. A photo from Mile Zero Charters, the sample fishing charter website.
  • The chat on the site drafts a trip request: which trip, a day and two backups, who is fishing and how experienced, a target fish as a wish, and a name and a way to reach them, around the clock.
  • Nothing is booked, held, priced or promised over chat, there is no deposit or payment, and it never promises a catch: a person at the dock reads every request and confirms by email or a call.
  • A website on your own name, with every trip on its own page, the briefing explained and your own waters' facts, that you keep whatever happens next.

Start here

See your own fishing charter site before you pay anything.

  1. Tell us the business name

    And a way to reach you. No card, no password.

  2. We hand-build a real home page for your business

    Free, in 12 to 48 hours.

  3. You look at it, then decide

    If you want the rest, we build it. If not, you owe nothing.

No card, no password. Your details stay with us.

The price

Every price, before you talk to anybody.

A website starts at $1,195, paid once: online payment opens soon. The monthly package is separate. The chat that answers comes with Starter, and every bot with Growth.

Your website paid once · yours to keep

5-page website

The same build, just smaller

$1,195paid once

What comes with it
  • Five pages, built for your business
  • On your own domain, yours to keep
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10-page website

The same build, twice the pages

$1,895paid once

What comes with it
  • Ten pages, built for your business
  • On your own domain, yours to keep
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Complete custom build

From scratch, your way

$2,995paid once

What comes with it
  • Built from scratch around your business
  • On your own domain, yours to keep
How the custom build works

Your monthly package month to month

Mini

No bots

$49a month

First month free — billing starts 30 days after you sign

No chat, no staff, no marketing — add those any time.

What comes with it
  • Your website kept up: hosting, security updates and an SSL certificate
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Starter

Starting with bots

$149a month

First month free — billing starts 30 days after you sign

Your Google listing and local directories set up, the chat answering, your marketing platform to post, answer reviews and see all your analytics in one place, and 15 minutes of work a month. Found, and answered.

No other bots — the rest of the staff is on Growth.

What comes with it
  • Everything in Mini: your website kept up, with hosting, security updates and SSL
  • Your Google Business Profile set up
  • Your local directory listings
  • The AI chat on your website, answering customers day and night
  • Every lead emailed to you
  • Your marketing platform: make posts to your website and your Google Business Profile, and answer your reviews, all from one place
  • Continuous updates for AI search: your posts go from the platform to your website and your Google Business Profile, keeping your business current for the people searching and the assistants that read it
  • One platform with all your reporting and analytics: your AI analytics, Google Analytics and Maps analytics, your posts, leads and reviews, where your customers come from, and your ads if you add Google Ads
  • If you add Google Ads: see your Google Ads analytics, your spend each day and your keywords, day by day or across any date range, from the same platform
  • 15 minutes a month of website and Google Business Profile work. It does not roll over to the next month.
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Growth

Full bots

$249a month

First month free — billing starts 30 days after you sign

Everything in Starter, plus every bot for your trade, the reviews, the referral program and 30 minutes of work a month — answered and followed up.

What comes with it
  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • Every bot on staff for your trade
  • Reviews watched, and a reply drafted for each one, for you to approve
  • Your posts drafted for you to approve, for your website and Google Business Profile. Nothing goes out until you say so
  • The Ad Manager checks your Google Ads spend every morning, if you run ads
  • The referral program
  • The lead form, wired to you
  • The staff tools: scheduling, crew, documents and the repair helper
  • 30 minutes a month of website and Google Business Profile work (Starter has 15 minutes). It does not roll over to the next month.
See the chat it runs

Or have us do it all our team does the work

Platinum Service

Done for you

We do it all for you, because you just don't have any time.

$949a month

Month to month, like every package. We do the work every month. We don't promise rankings or results.

Want Google Ads too? Add it to this plan or any other.

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  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • We write and publish four posts a month on your Google Business Profile
  • Four articles a month written for your website and published on it
  • Ongoing local SEO work on your site and Google profile
  • Review management: we answer your Google reviews and ask your customers for new ones
  • We keep your site running and fix what breaks. It's checked every hour
  • Security updates and SSL, as on every plan
  • One hour a month of website and Google Business Profile work (Growth has 30 minutes). It does not roll over to the next month.
  • A report every month, written by us
  • One platform with all your reporting and analytics: your AI analytics, Google Analytics and Maps analytics, your posts, leads and reviews, where your customers come from, and your ads if you add Google Ads
  • Our own team does the work, with no middleman between you and the people doing it

Google Ads: Google Ads, set up and run for you: $249 a month to manage them, plus $299 once to set them up. Added to any plan: Mini, Starter, Growth or Platinum Service. Your ad budget is paid by you directly to Google, on your own card. Our $249 is only for managing it.

The website and the monthly package are priced separately. An extra page is $99–$129; we list it at $129. The sports team app is a separate quote.

Questions

Straight answers.

What pages does a fishing charter website need?

This one has 7 pages, including the trips, the crew, questions, areas, request a trip. Yours is planned around your own services and towns: a page for each service you want to be found for, and the questions your customers ask before they get in touch.

What does the chat do when a guest asks about a fishing trip?

It drafts a trip request: which trip, a day and two backups, who is fishing and how experienced, a target fish as a wish, and a name and contact. A person at the dock reads it and confirms by email or a call. It never prices a trip, takes a deposit, promises a catch, or texts.

Will a fishing charter website help me get found on Google?

It is built to be found: every service on its own page, titles and descriptions written the way people search, your towns named, and structured data that search engines read. Nobody can promise a ranking, and we do not.

Is Mile Zero Charters a real company?

No. It is a sample business we invented, and so are its address and the job numbers on its paperwork. Every page says so: in its footer, and on its own address in a strip across the top. The telephone number on it is ours, so if you ring it you reach us.

What does a fishing charter website cost?

Two separate parts. The website is paid once: 5-page website $1,195, 10-page website $1,895, Complete custom build $2,995. Then a monthly package: Mini is $49 a month with no bots; with the chat answering and every enquiry sent to you, Starter is $149 a month; Growth, with every bot on staff, is $249 a month. Or have our team do it all: Platinum Service, $949 a month. It is everything in Growth, with our people writing and publishing your posts, working on your SEO, answering your reviews and keeping the site running, plus a report every month. Every price is on this page.