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.
There are several issues in the current yacht charter business that can be addressed for all parties involved. These are the current main problems being faced by the yacht charter business that we´ve come across, having been involved in the yacht charter business for several years:
Here are the main problems that guests looking to book a boat face today:
The majority of boat bookings is done by guests through website portals (OTAs) and charter agencies upon submitting a quote form online, sending an email inquiry or telephone call. Website portals and charter agencies then search for an available boat for their client/guest through fleet operators that manage boats for boat owners. So in a way website portals and charter agencies are also customers and they are facing the same problems as stated above.
From all the above-mentioned problems, all parties involved face the below problems, which we think are the most crucial:
Absence of a unified resource for yacht charter industry. Yacht charter service providers have to make themselves visible on a large number of individual resources (Booking Manager, Nausys, Sedna and even Booking.com, Lonely Planet forum, ThornTree, TripAdvisor, guidebooks, Wikitravel, etc.), but so far there is no single resource, website, or platform that could serve as the main go-to hub for guests, sailors, and service providers alike, providing all types of yachting services while charging low fees, and thus attracting truly vast numbers of clients.
All the issues described above could be resolved if only yacht charter service providers had a better channel for promoting and selling their services to tourists directly. A single resource that could ensure good communication, a straightforward advertising process, secure payments, low fees, and reliable information would signify an enormous step towards the creation of a new, efficient, and innovative model of yacht charter business.
We are utilising a hybrid of three business models. One is a platform for all parties involved in the charter business, allowing them to connect, add trust with smart contracts and ease payments with cryptocurrency. The second one is a platform for tokenizing yacht assets that allows users to benefit from profit-sharing from boat bookings. And third one is a yacht charter management programme.
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.
The Yachtco Platform is designed as the ultimate solution to the issues plaguing both guests and yacht charter service providers: 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.
A platform for tokenizing yacht assets.
Small investors will have access to boat investments.
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.
Each time a yacht is being tokenised, we issue certain new tokens (not Yachtco tokens, but different tokens!):
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 with our partner charter agencies.
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 organising sailing trips – from building an itinerary to renting a boat, from hiring a skipper to booking a marina and a dynamic self-organising 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.
Our platform will provide its users with all the advantages of the blockchain technology: instant and secure payments, transparency of transactions, safe decentralised data storage, a well-developed conflict resolution system, and infinite opportunities for expansion.
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 blockchain make sense is not the ability to put simple data onto the system. You do not really gain any significant advantage by doing so. In an enterprise environment, blockchain is often perceived as just another type of database technology for data input and permanency of that data be used to (know as immutability).
So why does permissioned blockchain make sense? This is usually considered within the framework of the business/enterprise environment, where it helps facilitate a certain business logic in a more decentralised 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 bring a new level of transparency and flexibility to the yachting industry, together with a host of other new features by bringing the transactional business logic of applications into this new decentralised environment.
Customers / sailors will be able to:
Fleet operators 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’s 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 finalisation
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 finalisation
Yachtco.io Token Presale Crowdfunding starts,
Crowdsale marketing,
Publish Yachtco website,
Set up community, social media and content channels
Community growth
Ready beta app
Conclued of preliminary agreements with partners,
Get first boats onto 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:
The Yachtco team is distinguished by entrepreneurship and dedication to everything that we do. Our experts have more than ten years of experience in the yachting industry, graphics 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 characterised by a high degree of trust. Decisions are made by 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, etc. For now, our team looks like this:
(*NOTE: We also have nine skippers that work with us on a contract basis. We did not present their profiles here.)
Miha is an entrepreneur with a background in business, technology, marketing and finance. He is also a skipper with a Yachtmaster licence and VHF GMDSS licence.
Founder of Blackbird Group Ltd and Blackbird One Ltd - successful and profitable yacht charter companies.
Ian Scarffe is a serial entrepreneur, investor and consultant with business experience from around the world.
As a leading entrepreneur, Ian is on a personal mission to develop a culture of entrepreneurship, helping startups achieve their full potential as well as helping to expand existing companies.
Ian has founded ‘Binkplus’, a startup incubator in Europe. A leading expert in Bitcoin, Blockchain and Crypto industries, Ian is at the very heart of revolutionising the financing industry across the globe and currently consults and advises for a range of multi-million dollar companies.
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.
He has a knack for successful content marketing, creative media strategies and brand building.
Anthony built his career in the world’s most prominent financial institutions. PWC Banking Advisory, Rothschild & Co, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. His expertise now being the world of cryptocurrency and ICO investing. His pedigree in finance is unparalleled.
Jure is an expert in software development of various flavour (embedded, desktop, web) and in different programming languages/tools ASM, C, C++, PHP, Java, Talend, UML, ...). He also has much experience in R&D and project management.
Anja has years of experience in finance. After graduation from business school, she ran the accounting department for Blackbird Group Ltd., Blackbird One Ltd. and now Yachtco Ltd.
Jure is an IT expert in system engineering with the ability to create and deliver solutions tied to business growth, organisational development, and system/network optimisation.
He's a skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter and is comfortable managing systems and projects in a range of IT environments. With more than ten years of experience working across different platforms, he possesses a wide range of skills in system development, installation, configuration, upgrading, and maintenance.
A good hybrid between web designer and front-end developer.
Responsible, committed and creative community manager.
