Yachtco is a platform that joins the entire yacht charter industry under one roof.
It is an ecosystem and a marketplace that allows all users to connect, plan sailing holidays efficiently and quickly, save money and participate in a dynamic community.
From all above mentioned problems, all parties involved have this problems which we think are the most crucial ones:
Yachtco is a platform that joins the entire yacht charter industry under one roof. Our end game is to disrupt the yacht charter industry as we know it – by becoming the biggest global yacht marketplace.
Yachtco is Yachting Marketplace and Charter Ecosystem directly connecting all leisure yachting participants on one platform: Guest, Fleet operators, Charter Agencies, Skippers and Hostesses, Website portals (OTAs), Boat owners, Marinas and mooring providers, Booking systems, Yacht builders, Boat investors and Insurance companies.
Yachtco charter management program will be a part of Yachtco project. Charter management program will be presented on dedicated website boatinvest.com – for more effective marketing.
For the purpose of charter management we will buy some sailboats and catamarans, open a base in marina (in Croatia for starters) and start offering chartered sailing holidays on our boats. Boats will be offered in our websites and on our charter agencies partners.
A platform for tokenizing yacht assets.
Security tokens are the inevitable future of token offerings. Combining the best elements of traditional financial markets with advantages of the new technology they will enhance the level of investors’ trust and increase the attractiveness of Security Token Offerings.
NOTE: This feature of Yachtco platform is in planning stages. We will not proceed with this part of the project until all legal and regulatory framework is set by regulating government bodies. Fully compliant regulatory framework is essential for this part.
The Yachtco platform is created as a revolutionary charter ecosystem that will bring together travellers and charter service providers from all across the globe. It is both an ultimate resource for organizing sailing trips – from building an itinerary to renting a boat, from hiring a skipper to booking a marina and a dynamic self-organizing community, where guests and yacht charter specialists can do much more than sell or purchase services.
directly connecting all leisure yachting participants on one platform: Guest, Fleet operators, Charter Agencies, Skippers and Hostesses, Website portals (OTAs), Boat owners, Marinas and mooring providers, Booking systems, Yacht builders, Boat investors and Insurance companies.
We can’t bring a new level of transparency and flexibility to yachting industry and we can bring new things to the table by bringing transactional business logic of applications into this new decentralized environment.
We see the yachting ecosystem as a network of:
Yachtco features boats, skippers, charter agencies, cooks, booking agencies, insurance companies and marina profiles and offers various tools for all of them. Being a part of this online ecosystem allows these entities to easily expose themselves either to the general public or to a targeted audience.
Profiles are also equipped with contact information that enables users to engage among themselves and thus pursue different business opportunities, which makes Yachtco a perfect networking tool and business platform.
Yachtco is a platform that joins the entire yacht charter industry under one roof. It will act as IMDB for yachts and crew, where profiles are ranked according to their online popularity. It will be built and curated by the Yachtco user community.
For more effective marketing, we will build a dedicated websites for various services that will be provided on Yachtco platform:
All partners will have the same ability to present fleets with real-time boat and crew booking availability or other services provided by Yachtco and partners on their own websites – via API and XML data sharing.
The actual reason why blockchains make sense is not the ability to put simple data onto them. You do not really gain any significant advantage of doing so. In enterprise environment blockchains are often perceived as just another type of database technology, using which you can put any data in the database and it just stays there forever no matter what (it is called immutability).
So why permissioned blockchain makes sense? They are usually considered within the framework of business/enterprise environment, where they help facilitate a certain business logic in a more decentralized way. It’s not exactly about putting some data in some fancy database, it’s more about implementing the very logic of business in a way less prone to corruption providing an enhanced transparency level. So it’s more about smart contracts.
We can’t bring a new level of transparency and flexibility to yachting industry and we can bring new things to the table by bringing transactional business logic of applications into this new decentralized environment.
Customers / sailors will be able to:
Fleet operator will be able to:
Charter agencies and sales partners will be able to:
Boat owners will be able to:
Skippers, crew and cooks will be able to:
Marinas will be able to:
Insurance companies will be able to:
Yachtco token is the central element of Yachtco system, integrating all components of the ecosystem and platform. All tokens will be issued in the course of token crowdfunding, with no possibility of additional emission.
The project token is UTILITY TOKEN, used for internal functioning of the platform, giving access to defined services, depending on number of tokens held by the user.
Token owners get advantages at each stage of project implementation as per number of held tokens. Some Yachtco services are open for token owners on exclusivity conditions, and the operating fees will be charged depending on number of owned tokens. For the rest of the clients, having no tokens, Yachtco will render services on standard conditions and rates. Depending on the number of tokens owned in the project ecosystem, each owner will be assigned on of the five statuses: Standard, Silver, Gold, Platinum or VIP. Requirements to ownership volumes will change dynamically.
To obtain the statuses, the below rates will be applied at the end of token crowdsale stage A:
| Standard | Silver | Gold | Platinum | VIP | |
| Holding period | Not less than 160 days per year | ||||
| Number of tokens required for assignment of status | 1000 YACHTCO | 6.000 YACHTCO | 90.000 YACHTCO | 600.000 YACHTCO | 2.000.000 YACHTCO |
| Our boat price | standard rate | 10% | 20% | 35% | 50% |
| Discount on skippers, hostesses and cooks | standard rate | 1% | 2% | 4% | 7% |
| Discount on our partner boats | standard rate | 1% | 2% | 3% | 5% |
| Transaction fees | standard rate | 10% | 20% | 35% | 50% |
| Advertising fees | standard rate | 10% | 20% | 35% | 50% |
| Use of platform | all services | all services | all services | all services | all services |
| Airdops participation | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Priority check in on our boats | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Free outboard, stand up paddle, kayak, snorkeling equipment, kneeboard on our boats | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Dedicated booking and platform assistant | no | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Dedicated concierge (phone, email, in person assistance with booking and travel plans) | no | no | no | yes | yes |
Real people with real experience;
Real company with real offices;
Real team with real full-time hands-on effort;
Real money from the founder, as much as from the private investors;
Real product, not just coded in GitHub, but live, with users, a live community, not today, but for many years;
Real revenues already coming in, month on month, not just a loss-making-forever-trillion-dollar-opportunity.
You can find a better roadmap layout here.
Some of Yachtco team members start sailing in Croatia with family and friends
Idea for charter agency
Blackbird Group Ltd was founded (sister company),
Signed first contracts with partners,
1000+ boats available worldwide
SkipperCity.com was launched
First customers signed a contract with us
First customers went sailing with us
Visited International Charter Expo,
Signed more contracts with partners,
2000+ boats available worldwide
Launched GuletCity.com and LuxuryYachtCity.com
Idea for Yachtco
Start of research and concept development
Blackbird One Ltd. founded in Gibraltar
Visited International Charter Expo,
Signed more contracts with partners,
3000+ boats available worldwide
Signed more contracts with partners,
7000+ boats available worldwide
Websites redesign
Visited International Charter Expo
Team Creation,
Idea and concept finalization
Brand design
Yachtco Trademark application filled
Yachtco token created on Waves platform
Visited International Charter Expo and tested the market by presenting idea to our partners
White Paper finalization
Yachtco.io Token Presale Crowdfunding starts,
Crowdsale Marketing,
Publish Yachtco website,
Set up community, social media and content channels
Community Growth
Ready beta app
Conclusion of preliminary agreements with partners,
Get first boats in platform
Yachtco Token Crowdsale Series A starts
Visit International Charter Expo,
Sign more contracts with partners,
Early access launch,
Platform test phase,
Order boats
Commercial launch of the project
Setup a base in marina,
Boat delivery in marina
Crowdsale Series A ends,
Delivery of Yachtco tokens to crowdsale participants,
Yachtco tokens starts trading on DEX exchange
| Token name: | Yachtco |
| Ticker: | Yachtco |
| Type: | Utility token |
| Blockchain: | Waves platform |
| Total supply: | 1.000.000.000 |
| Available in token crowdsale: | 700.000.000 |
| SoftCap: | No Softcap |
| HardCap: | Presale: €2M, Series A: €20M |
| Pre-sale price: | 0.10 EUR |
| Series A price: | 0.20 EUR |
| Accepted currencies: | Crypto (ETH, BTC, WAVES, ETC, BCH, ZRX, BNT, BNB, LTC and ZEC) and fiat (EUR, USD, YPJ, CAD and GBP) |
| Token price | Minimum purchase | Available tokens | |
| Presale | 0,10 € | 500,00 € | 20.000.000 |
| Series A | 0,20 € | 500,00 € | 100.000.000 |
| Series B | TBD | 500,00 € | 120.000.000 |
| Series C | TBD | 500,00 € | 100.000.000 |
| Future rounds | TBD | 500,00 € | 360.000.000 |
Yachtco tokens will be distributed as follows:
Collected funds will be used for:
Yachtco team is distinguished by entrepreneurship and dedication to everything what we do. Our experts have more than 10 years of experience in yachting industry, IT-development, graphic and design, Big Data management, analytics, mathematics, marketing, international relations and sociology.
Yachtco is a team of like-minded people; enthusiasts who are passionate about a common cause, connected by common interests, moral principles, values and a similar active life position.
Our team has clear goals, and relations between people in the company are characterized by a high degree of trust. Decisions are made on the basis of consensus or, if there are alternatives, after obtaining the consent of all team members.
We will expand our team as soon as possible - after token crowdsale - with experts in various fields from online marketing, sales, development,... For now, our team looks like this:
(*NOTE: We also have 9 skippers that work with us on contract basis. We did not present their profiles here.)
Miha is entrepreneur with background in business, technology, marketing and finance. He is also a skipper with Yachtmaster license and VHF GMDSS license.
Founder of Blackbird Group Ltd. and Blackbird One Ltd. - successful and profitable yacht charter companies.
Jure is an expert in software development of various flavor (embedded, desktop, web) and in various programing languages/tools ASM, C, C++, PHP, Java, Talend, UML, ...). He also has a lot of experience in R&D and project management.
Jure has a profound understanding of both ends of the media spectrum, having spent seven years as a journalist, and four years as a B2B marketing and public relations professional.
Over the years he developed top-tier media relationships, having attained a media presence in over 100 news agencies and media houses, including Yahoo News, Associated Press, Huffington Post and others.
Having a knack for successful content marketing, creative media strategies and brand building.
A good hybrid between web designer and front-end developer.
Jure is and expert in software development of various flavor (embedded, desktop, web) and in various programing languages/tools ASM, C, C++, PHP, Java, Talend, UML, ...). He also has a lot of experience in R&D and project management.
Anja has years of experience in finance. After graduation from business school she ran accounting department for Blackbird Group Ltd., Blackbird One Ltd. and now Yachtco Ltd.
