manta yacht
A website, a booking system, and the print to match for the M/Y MANTA — the vintage Burger megayacht whose Charleston cruises fund a marine-science nonprofit.
CLIENT
Manta Yacht · MANTA (Marine Science & Nautical Training Academy)
INDUSTRY
SERVICES
Extended
TIMELINE
Ongoing/Retainer
THE BRIEF
putting a floating classroom to work.
The M/Y MANTA is not an ordinary charter yacht. A classic flush-deck Burger — donated to MANTA, a marine-science nonprofit — she works double duty: a floating teaching and research platform for College of Charleston scientists, and Charleston's charter megayacht, whose harbor cruises and dockside events fund the organization's marine-science work in the Caribbean. What the nonprofit needed was the machinery to make that second job effortless: a site that tells the yacht's story, takes a booking without a phone call, and hands a brochure to every hotel rack in town.
WHAT WE DID
01
the website
- Built mantayacht.org on WordPress — the yacht, the story, the experiences, and the rates, composed around the charter photography so the Burger's classic lines do the persuading.
- Told the double story straight: a luxury cruise on the surface, a marine-science nonprofit underneath — so every guest knows their evening on the water funds research.
02
bookings, wired in
- Integrated the FareHarbor booking system directly into the site — harbor-cruise tickets and custom experiences bookable straight from the page, no phone call in between.
- Structured the three experience lines — megayacht harbor cruises, dockside events, and custom charters — so each books through its own clear path.
03
the trifold, rack after rack
- Designed the charter trifold for the places tourists actually decide — hotel lobbies and the visitor center — and rebuilt it across editions as the offer grew.
- Carried it through print production: full-bleed layouts sized and adjusted to the local printer's specs, so the rack copy looks as considered as the yacht.
04
foundations & the long run
- Laid the search foundations — a full SEO audit and keyword research to ground the site's visibility in how people actually look for a Charleston charter.
- Migrated the site onto Kronikon's managed hosting and keep it running — updates applied, uptime watched, season after season.
THE OUTCOME
a charter that books itself — and a nonprofit funded by every cruise.
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CLICK FROM THE HOMEPAGE TO A TICKETED CRUISE · FAREHARBOR WIRED IN
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EXPERIENCE LINES, EACH WITH ITS OWN BOOKING PATH · CRUISE · DOCKSIDE · CUSTOM
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PLACES THE STORY LIVES · THE SITE + THE HOTEL-RACK TRIFOLD
NEXT CHAPTER
running an experience people should be able to book in one click?
Let's build the site, wire the bookings, and print the brochure that fills the calendar.