Built for boat owners. Trusted by marinas.

Our mission

One search. Every slip.

Finding a wet slip used to mean calling marinas one at a time, hoping someone picked up the phone. We're changing that. WetSlipFinder gives boat owners a single national search — every marina, every slip type, every amenity — and gives marinas a platform to reach the right boaters at the right time. We don't accept pay-for-placement. Listings are ranked on relevance and verified data, not advertising spend.

The marketplace vision

A working slip marketplace is bigger than a directory. It connects the dockmaster taking the call, the boater two days out from arrival, the fuel-dock operator updating prices that morning, and the insurance underwriter checking whether a marina has a hurricane plan. Our long-term vision is the connective tissue between those parties — clean data, real-time price freshness, verified hurricane and depth records, and the kind of editorial trust that makes a 35-foot Catalina owner and a 75-foot Hatteras captain both pick up the phone with confidence.

Who uses WetSlipFinder

Our readers are transient cruisers on the ICW, snowbirds heading south for the season, sportfish captains chasing a tournament schedule, sailing families on a year off, charter operators repositioning fleets, and liveaboard residents searching for a community to call home. Marina operators use the site as a no-cost way to keep their public-facing record accurate — and increasingly, as a place to post fuel pricing, hurricane status, and live availability.

Data sources

Our marina records are built from operator-published rate cards, NOAA Coast Pilot entries, USACE controlling-depth surveys, U.S. Coast Guard Light List data, and direct phone conversations with dockmasters. Weather and sea-state context on the planning pages comes from Open-Meteo's marine model and NOAA station data; tide predictions come from CO-OPS station harmonics. Full sourcing is documented in our data methodology.

Editorial standards

Every long-form page is researched from primary sources and reviewed by our Marina Research Review group before publication. We don't accept payment for editorial placement. Sponsored content, when it appears, is labeled clearly. Read the full rules in our editorial policy, and meet the team behind the byline at the editorial team profile.

Platform overview

Beyond the marina directory, WetSlipFinder publishes a stack of planning tools that work the way boaters actually plan: fuel-dock pricing and route fuel planning, AI route planning with NOAA chart cross-checks, docking condition reads for wind, swell and current, hurricane-safe marina shortlists, and a waterway hub library organized by the way captains actually plan a leg.

Independence

WetSlipFinder is independently operated. We accept advertising and partnerships under the rules in our advertise and partners pages, but advertising never affects which marina ranks first for a search, and editorial coverage is never sold. Disclosures, when relevant, appear inline.