Fishing Charter · Demo website

Blackmouth Charters

Charter customers plan from a distance: they need dates, prices, what's included, and proof the captain is legit — before they'll pick up the phone. This demo answers the planning questions up front, shows the whole season at a glance, and turns “is the 14th open?” phone tag into a booking request that arrives with the date, trip, and group size already attached.

Blackmouth Charters is a fictional business we invented for this demonstration — not a client. The website is real and fully working; the business, its reviews, and its story are illustrative.

blackmouth-charters.demo · northheaddigital.com

This is a live website — scroll and click around right here, or open it full-screen. Try it on your phone, too.

The problem this design solves

Booking a boat from three hours away

What an angler planning from Portland needs settled before they will call — and what answering it up front does to the captain's phone.

The starting point

Every booking started with a phone call — often from Portland or Seattle — asking the same things: what's running, what does it cost, what should we bring, is Saturday open?

What the design changes

Rates, the season chart, and the gear list answer the planning questions online, and booking requests arrive with the date, trip, and head count already attached — so the captain can run trips instead of running the phone.

Design notes

Dark, weather-worn, and built around the season

The palette here is deliberate. A charter is sold on competence with a bit of romance underneath it, and a bright, airy layout undersells both. Dark, weather-worn design and photography of actual water do the brand work while the content does the planning work.

The season chart is what makes the site useful rather than decorative: it lays out what is running month by month, so an angler choosing a weekend can answer for themselves the single question that generates the most phone calls. Rates are per person with the whole-boat option stated plainly. The gear list and the weather policy sit above the booking form on purpose, so the request that arrives already carries a date, a trip type, and a head count — and the captain replies to a text instead of fielding a planning call.

What this build includes

What turns a planner into a booking

  • Trips and per-person rates, with a private whole-boat option
  • Season chart showing what's running month by month
  • The boat, the captain's license, and the weather policy up front
  • What's included vs. what to bring, answered before anyone calls
  • Booking-request form that captures date, trip type, and group size
Make it yours

Your boat, presented like this

Your trips, your rates, your season, your policies. The same shape works for anything sold as a scheduled, weather-dependent outing — guided hunts, dive trips, kayak tours — where half the job is answering planning questions before anyone commits.

Projects like this one typically fall under our Silver package — the site with booking as its chosen lead system, plus follow-up automation for weather-day rebooking.

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