Welcome to the Open Marine Initiative

The Open Marine Initiative is an undertaking by the leaders in the marine classified advertisements industry to create open, interoperable standards for boat specifications.

Put simply, the Initiative intends to set standards for trading data between its members, so that brokers only have to enter in their data once, in order to take full advantages of the services that a world of classified websites have to offer. Initiative members are also committed to sharing the data free of charge to the broker.

For more details, please look at the About the Initiative page, and look at our Planned Rollout schedule. If you are a provider of classified marine ad services or stock management or CRM software, please look at the Becoming a Member section. We can be contacted us through the means listed on the Contact Us page.

Conditions of Membership

A stipulation of membership to Open Marine is that any new member must have well in excess of 10,000 boats to share with other members and must have been trading for at least a year. If your company meets these basic criteria, your application will be put forward to all existing members who will then consider your membership application.

Please Note: Membership to Open Marine is currently suspended awaiting the development of version 2 of the schema. If you wish to register your interest in Open Marine, then please send us an email with your Portal's address and any other information that may help your membership request.

News & Press

Open Marine Version 2

February 7, 2011

Open Marine is temporarily closed to new members whilst we develop version 2 of the schema. More >

Yacht Council joins Open Marine

November 11, 2009

With great pleasure, Open Marine welcomes Yacht Council as a member (www.yachtcouncil.com and www.yachtcouncil.org). More >

Boot 24 Joins the Open Marine Initiative

October 8, 2009

The Open Marine Initiative is pleased to announce that Boot24.com has joined. This adds to the ever growing strength of Open Marine, setting it up for continued expansion into Europe. More >

Richard Roberts Re-elected as Chairman

August 18, 2009

"There is still a great deal to do regarding the planned expansion into Europe and other countries and to have so many members that are cooperating is really very exciting. The next few months will see new members joining and Open Marine will be growing from strength to strength.

All our members are committed to accepting each other's data feeds without prejudice; signatories are pledged to accept data feeds from each other without adding any cost or complications to the brokers. This ethos continues!"
Richard Roberts, Chairman - Open Marine More >

Richard Roberts Re-elected as Chairman

June 5, 2008

"By unanimous decision, Richard Roberts of TheYachtMarket has been re-elected as Chairman of the Open Marine Initiative for the next 12 months." More >