YACHTONUS.Com PRESS PACK

YACHTONUS.com PRESS PACK

Contents

· Introduction

· Quick Guide

· User Log In

· Founder Biography

· Languages Available

· Imagery Access

· FAQs

· Latest News

· Press e-newsletter Signup

· PR contact

Introduction

YACHTONUS.com is the world’s first international online platform for yacht management that launched in May 2011. It offers a full maintenance planning service, with the additional option of inviting providers and other users to assist in the process.

www.yachtonus.com

Quick Guide

Covering sailing and motor yachts, registration is free for any boat owner, whereupon users can create an online boat profile in their chosen language including all components on board and their state of repair. This facilitates the development of an integral maintenance plan for the boat. As a boat is used, wear and tear impacts all moving parts e.g. sails stretch, hatches, windows and joints leak, canvas covers get torn and running lines degrade. The profile can be continually updated to reflect this degradation.

With YACHTONUS.com, the owner can safely give services suppliers access to this online profile enabling them to update the configuration, the corresponding maintenance plan and schedule essential tasks in the future. A brief overview of the boat can be shared easily via an email link.

Users can review the highest rated advice for items on board, raise questions with fellow boat owners and specialists as well as accessing required products or services with the click of a mouse. The service is currently being expanded to offer an online comparison against pre-defined profiles for boat safety and offshore racing regulations.

Alex Dowdalls, General Manager, YACHTONUS.com, identified a gap in the market for an international web based yacht management service focused on the needs of owners and started by choosing the website’s name.

This has become a talking point across nationalities with the original idea stemming from the Latin term ‘ONUS’ for responsibility of your yacht and ‘TONUS’ which implies maintaining the fitness or tone of your yacht to Spanish, Italian and French users.

The Overview

User Log In

To set up your free trial please create a profile via the link below on the registration page:

https://www.yachtonus.com/yachtonus_my_profile.php

Simple Steps

1. Register as a user and a password will be sent by email to you within a few minutes

2. Set up a general profile of your boat on My Profile including name, type and description

3. Input the configuration and upload images via My Boat – saved at each stage so can be expanded over time. Start with elements such as hull, motor, mast and e.g. electrics

4. Assess and record the status of each component (using predefined checklists to save time)

5. Determine and schedule maintenance tasks as required- you will receive an email reminder when the task is due to start

6. Raise any questions you may have and view the best rated advice available

7. Invite suppliers to view your boat profile (on permission) and offer the help that you need using the secure digital key

The Process

Founder Biography

Alex Dowdalls founded YACHTONUS.com during 2011. A keen boater himself, Alex has been yachting since he was 10 years old originally learning in dinghies around the west coast of Scotland. Now a proud owner of a 45ft yacht Alex aspires to complete a passage along the UK, French, Netherlands and Belgian coasts as well as sailing to Norway and crossing the Atlantic.

With an engineering background understanding the design, build and operation of boats is a strong passion. During many years experiencing charter of motor and sailing boats around the world Alex never had the gift of a boat where all components actually functioned and some of the boats even lacked basic safety features.

This sparked the concept of YACHTONUS.com, where online yacht management can be effective in maintaining all of a yacht’s components, including the essential safety features.

Languages Available

· English

· German

· French

· Italian

· Spanish

· Dutch

Imagery Access

High resolution imagery is available on request

FAQs

YACHTONUS.com offers value to owners and suppliers through:

· Assisting owners in understanding the maintenance required for their own yacht

· Enabling each owner to develop a customised maintenance plan in line with their lifestyle and intended use of the yacht

· Allowing service providers to access and manage their customers’ boat profiles online

· Allowing service providers to record advice to specific components on board the yacht and schedule future maintenance

· Working to reduce the cost of ownership and long term reduction in boat value

· Increasing the awareness of safety implications associated with neglect or poor maintenance

· Providing unlimited access to specific boat maintenance knowledge

YACHTONUS’ philosophy is to be proactive to prevent component failure before it could happen, reducing risk and cost, whilst increasing the fun of owning and using your boat.

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Latest News

YACHTONUS.com Reinvents Boat Maintenance with Launch of Online Yacht Management

Yacht maintenance is a certainty across all marine models and is essential for value preservation and safety. Planning the upkeep of sailing and motor yachts requires an ongoing commitment and an intimate understanding of the yacht to ensure it is prepared for the voyage that lies ahead. YACHTONUS.com is a completely new service launching within the marine world this month, which for the first time enables owners to proactively manage their yacht online, preventing component failure and reducing the risk and cost involved with boating.

‘YACHTONUS.com starts a new era for yacht management and puts the element of fun back into yacht ownership, giving owners reassurance that their boat is well managed. Recently maintenance has been far more scrutinised by yacht owners as boats become more complex requiring help from multiple suppliers whilst budgets tighten. Owners have gone back to basics and looked at doing some jobs personally as well as seeking a way to follow specific advice online from more creditable and value orientated suppliers’.

The pleasure of yacht ownership will be revived through building an online profile that includes the configuration of the yacht, the state of repair of the components on board and an integral maintenance schedule. YACHTONUS.com is easy to use and caters to a wide range of languages.

For further information contact

Alex Dowdalls

+31 653 204 932