WiFi that reaches the boat. Service that recognises the member.
Long-range outdoor coverage from clubhouse to pontoon, member-tier access policies, regatta-day burst capacity, and presence-driven services for the yachtsman who's just stepped aboard.
Reach. Tiers. Bursts. Saltwater.
Marinas are an outdoor problem, a member-club problem, an event problem, and a corrosion problem. Most WiFi vendors solve one of those four. Purple was designed for the marina that has all of them on the same Saturday in June.
The marina is your customer-data spine. Run it that way.
Members pay £4-12k per berth and expect the experience to match. Yet most marinas know less about who's aboard tonight than a 15-room Travelodge. Purple makes the marina WiFi the operational dashboard the harbour master always wanted.
Members 200m off the clubhouse — still on WiFi.
Standard indoor APs blanket the clubhouse and die at the basin. Sector and point-to-multipoint antennas at clubhouse height, aimed at the pontoon strings, deliver usable 5GHz to a yacht moored 200-400m out — without forcing every member onto an offshore Starlink plan.
Five tiers. Five experiences. One SSID set.
Full member gets uncapped pontoon-grade access. Associate member gets the same speed at the clubhouse only. Day visitor gets a paid 8-hour pass. Sailing-school instructor gets a 2-week classroom code. Event guest gets a regatta-branded splash. All on the same hardware, all switched by membership-system attribute, all without a phone call to IT.
500 guests on race weekend. Decommissioned on Monday morning.
Regatta weekend brings 500+ guests, race committee livestreams, sponsor banners, and a media area. Purple auto-provisions a 'Race 2026' guest tier with sponsor-branded splash on the Friday, and decommissions it Monday — without a permanent capacity bill or an unused SSID lingering in the controller.
A leisure boat sees the marina more than the open sea.
12 million US registered boats. ~500 UK marinas. A typical leisure yacht spends more days alongside than offshore — and connectivity is consistently a top-3 'must have' for marina members alongside fuel and clean facilities. Purple is the platform marinas adopt when WiFi stops being plumbing and starts being product.
Tender on demand. Race-day muster. Boat-aboard tonight.
Marinas run on a tender-driver radio call, a paper sign-in book at the dockmaster's office, and a regatta committee that prints crew lists on Friday morning. Purple replaces every one of those with a presence-aware app — the harbour office knows who's aboard, who needs a launch, and who hasn't shown up for race start.
- Boat-aboard auto-detection on the pontoon SSID
- Tender-on-demand request from the member's app
- Race-day muster — phone in geofence by 0800 = present
- Captain alert if a crew member misses muster
The boat aboard tonight. The launch on its way. The crew checked in.
Members already have your branded marina app for berth reservation and account management. Purple turns it into a presence-aware companion — the moment a phone joins the pontoon SSID, your harbour office dashboard flips the berth status, the laundry team gets a pre-aboard service prompt, and the captain's race-day crew muster fills automatically.
Tender on demand. Provisioning order pre-arrival. Race-morning crew check-in. The high-touch member experience that justifies the £8k berth fee — automated, presence-driven, and run from the WiFi network you already pay for.
The marina-member metrics nobody else measures.
Berth utilisation tells you who paid. Purple tells you who's aboard, who's lapsed, who's racing, and who's never come back since the last AGM. The leading indicators of marina-member retention.
Real berth utilisation by boat, by member, by month — replacing dockmaster headcount estimates with actual presence data.
Members whose visit pattern has dropped flagged to the GM before subscription renewal — with a personal call instead of a churn statistic.
Crew muster, sponsor activation, race-committee comms — all measured per-event, replayable Monday morning.
Common marina WiFi questions, answered.
How far offshore does the WiFi reach?
Realistic usable 5GHz coverage extends 200-400m from a clubhouse-mounted sector antenna, depending on basin geometry and antenna height. For longer-range needs we deploy point-to-multipoint links to remote pontoons. Purple plans the coverage and works with marine-rated installers — we don't ship a box and wish you luck.
Will it work in the British winter?
Yes. We deploy IP67-rated outdoor APs and weatherised PoE injectors designed for coastal salt exposure. Season-aware billing means you don't pay full capacity in February when half the boats are on the hard.
How do member tiers integrate with our membership system?
Direct integrations exist with Harbour Assist and other marina-management systems. For everything else, Purple syncs membership tiers via a webhook/API — your full members get the full experience automatically, no manual access-list management.
Can we do paid day-passes for visitors?
Yes. Purple supports paid WiFi tiers — typically £3-8 for an 8-hour pass for visiting boats — paid at the captive portal via Stripe. Revenue back to your marina, no third-party plumbing.
Does it support our regatta?
Yes. Race-week burst SSIDs with sponsor-branded splash auto-provision Friday and decommission Monday. Race-day crew muster, sponsor lead capture, and committee livestream prioritisation are all covered.
Ready to run the marina that recognises every member?
Speak to a marina specialist who's deployed Purple at single-pontoon clubs and 100+ marina groups. We'll scope a single-marina pilot, prove the pontoon-coverage and member-tier numbers, and roll out from there.
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