About Boatbase

Boatbase is an Australian marketplace for trailer boats, tinnies, fishing boats, runabouts and jetskis — the trailerable end of the market, where most boats are sold privately between two people rather than through a broker.

That corner is badly served. Facebook Marketplace buries a $60,000 rig under furniture within a day and gives buyers nothing to filter on. The purpose-built platforms charge private sellers by the value of the boat, and most belong to the same group that runs the car and caravan sites. Neither answers the question every trailer-boat buyer actually has first: can my car tow it?

What we do differently

• Free to list, no commission. Not a launch promotion — the platform doesn't take a cut of your sale.
• A tow check built in. Save your tow vehicle once and any boat listed with its trailer weight shows green, amber or red. Trailer Match turns that around: enter your limits, see everything you can tow.
• Every listing read by a human before a buyer sees it. Slower than automatic publishing, and the point.
• Your phone number stays private until you choose to show it.

Where we're up to

Boatbase is new and small. There is no large listing base yet, no marine surveyor directory yet, and no PPSR encumbrance check yet — we'd rather say that plainly than imply checks the platform doesn't perform. What exists today works; what doesn't, we don't claim.

Run by BREEZEAL PTY LTD, ABN 39 675 617 302, an Australian company. Get in touch — it's a small enough operation that a person reads everything.