Fill Every Seat on the Boat: AI-Built Booking and Websites for Fishing Charters

Mythex builds a fishing charter the booking system it needs: seats sold one at a time or the whole boat at once, departure times that move with the tide, a live page of spare seats and a catch report feed. You describe your boat and trips in chat, check the preview, and publish.

Running a charter from the skipper's phone

A charter has a fixed number of places and a schedule set by tide and weather. Groups of friends book a boat and split it; single anglers want a seat on a shared trip. Tomorrow's two empty places get posted on social media the evening before, and a weather call means phoning every angler on that trip. Tackle hire, bait and ice have to be ready the night before, and private charters with no deposit are the bookings that hurt when nobody turns up. Most of it lives in a notebook and a message thread.

Seats counted down per trip, with a whole-boat option
A departure time per trip rather than a fixed slot
Tackle hire booked with the seat
Weather cancellations moving a whole trip at once
Deposits on private charters
A list of regulars who want last-minute seat alerts

What you can build for fishing charters

Seats or the whole boat, on one calendar

Each trip has its own departure time and capacity. Anglers book single seats and the count drops; a private charter takes every remaining seat. Rod hire is added at booking so the right gear goes aboard, and when weather cancels, every angler on that trip is moved or credited together.

Build a booking system for my fishing charter. Each trip has a date, departure time, length (half day or full day) and 10 seats. Anglers book single seats or the whole boat as a private charter with a deposit. Add rod hire as an option. Let me cancel a trip for weather and move all its anglers to another date at once.

A standing page of spare seats

One link lists upcoming trips with places left, updating as bookings arrive. Share it instead of retyping trip details each evening, and regulars learn to check it. Seasonal pages for a run of a target species carry dates and a book button.

Create a page for my charter that lists upcoming trips with spare seats, showing date, departure time, target species and seats left, with a book button on each. Hide trips that are full. Add a separate page for the summer mackerel season with dates and a group booking form.

Trip pages and fresh catch reports

Each trip type gets its duration, target species, departure point and maximum anglers, with seat and private prices shown separately. Say what is included (bait, tackle, ice) and what to bring. A catch report after every trip, with species, photo and conditions, keeps anglers coming back to the site.

Build a website for my fishing charter with pages for half-day, full-day and private trips showing duration, species by season, departure point, seat and whole-boat prices, and what is included. Add a catch report section where I post a photo, species and conditions after each trip from my phone.

Regulars, group organisers and seat alerts

Record each angler's preferred trips and species, the group organisers who book every year, and who has opted in to last-minute seat alerts. Notes on seasickness or mobility help plan the longer trips. Sending alerts needs an email or SMS provider you connect.

Make a CRM for my fishing charter. Store anglers with preferred trip type and species, an opt-in for spare seat alerts, and notes like seasickness. Flag group organisers whose usual annual trip date is coming up in the next 6 weeks.

Crew rotas that follow the tide

Skippers and deckhands are assigned per trip, and each shift starts at that trip's departure time, with prep time for bait, ice and tackle before it. Certificate expiry dates sit on the rota so nobody is assigned with a lapsed ticket.

Create a crew rota for my charter boats. Assign a skipper and deckhand to each trip, start each shift one hour before that trip's departure time, and store each crew member's certificates with expiry dates, warning me if anyone is assigned with an expired one.

Weather calls, deposits and credits

State your weather policy on the booking page before anyone pays: who decides, how late, and whether anglers get a new date, a credit or a refund. Take deposits on private charters and record the balance due on the day. When a trip is cancelled, ask for every booking on it to be moved or credited in one action, and keep a record of trips lost to weather by month for the dashboard. Card deposits need a payment provider you connect with your own account.

What to put on day one

Load the next month of trips with their departure times and capacity, and publish the spare seats page. Add the catch report feed next, then the angler list with seat-alert opt-ins. Crew rotas and the monthly dashboard can follow once bookings run through the app.

Trips with times and seat caps
Spare seats page link
Weather policy text

Questions

Can anglers book individual seats on a shared trip?

Yes. Set a capacity per trip and seats count down as people book. A private charter option takes all remaining seats.

Can departure times change with the tide?

Yes. Each trip carries its own departure time rather than a fixed slot, and crew shifts can start from that time.

Can I take deposits for private charters?

Yes. Ask for a deposit at booking and a balance due on the day. Card payments need a payment provider you connect under your own account.

Can I update catch reports from the boat?

The published site works in your phone's browser, so you can post a photo and species from the harbour. On Pro, Mythex can also make Android and iPhone apps that open your published app.

Is it free to start?

Yes. The Free plan needs no card and has daily credits to build and publish. Pro is $25/month and adds a custom domain, code editing and export.

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