An hour with the boat, once, and your listing stands out.
On a partner marketplace, a boat cannot go live until its seller has done three things in SoundHull. None of them needs a professional. All of them make the boat easier to sell.
Type the number off the transom.
Press “Verify with SoundHull” on the marketplace, sign in or register, and you land on the listing check. The first step is the hull number moulded into the back of the boat. Often the marketplace has already passed it across and the step is ticked before you start.
The number is decoded as you type, so a mistake shows immediately.
Photograph the folder.
Add the boat’s earlier paperwork: the last survey, the yard invoices, the engine service sheets, the safety certificates. A PDF or a photo of the page is enough. SoundHull can read the document and suggest what to record from it; you tick what is right.
No paperwork at all? Some marketplaces accept an honest declaration, which buyers will see. Others require at least one record. The check tells you which.
Walk the checklist, then sign.
Forty-six checkpoints in the order you would walk the boat anyway: hull, deck, rig, engine, electrics, plumbing, safety gear, interior. Each one is OK, attention or defect, with a photo where it matters. Around an hour for a 10-metre (33 ft) boat.
At the end you sign, and the report is sealed. A report you signed in the last month counts, so a boat you inspected last week is not walked twice.
Then press “Back to the marketplace”. Your listing goes live.
Request a demo →Two honest items sell better than none.
Every used boat has something. A report that shows two moderate items, each with the fix and its likely cost, reads as a boat that has been looked at properly. A listing with nothing on it reads as a boat nobody has checked.
Repairs you make before the sale are recorded too, with before and after photographs, so the buyer sees what was done rather than taking your word for it.
The record is yours, and it follows the boat.
The boat’s SoundHull record belongs to you, not to the marketplace. You control the public report link and can stop it. When the boat sells, hand the whole history to the buyer in SoundHull and the record moves with the hull — which is exactly why the next buyer will trust it.
If you take the boat off the market, nothing is lost. The inspection and the paperwork stay on your account for the next time.
- Not a marine survey, not a valuation. SoundHull flags what a camera and a guided walk can see; a surveyor with a moisture meter still finds what they cannot, and nothing in the report puts a price on the boat. Every report says so on its first page.
- The seller does the work; the record is what makes it honest. Findings are dated and sealed with a fingerprint at signing, so an edit afterwards shows as FAILS VERIFICATION. Earlier paperwork is kept as the original document, unchanged.
- Prices are indicative, never a quotation. Each fix carries a range for labour and parts so a buyer knows the scale of what they are taking on.
- Where a seller has no earlier paperwork, the marketplace decides whether an honest declaration is enough — and buyers see that declaration.
List it with a history, not a hope.
Selling through a partner marketplace? Look for “Verify with SoundHull” on the listing form, or open the seller app if you already have your link. Want your marketplace to offer it? Ask them, or ask us.
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