For charter captains
Keep 100% of every trip. We take zero commission.
OBX Charter is a booking platform built for Outer Banks captains — flat monthly membership instead of a cut of your trips. Your boat, your price, your money.
Call (252) 573-5666Start your listing
Ten minutes, and we walk the paperwork with you.
Enter your email and we send you a sign-in link. It opens your setup: your details, the boat, photos, licence and insurance, payouts and your first dates. Nothing goes live until we have checked your licence and insurance.
$249/mo · 60 days free · 0% commission
Commission vs membership
The arithmetic
On a full-day offshore trip, the large booking sites take a percentage of the charter price. That money does not come back. Here is what it looks like on a typical $1,800 day.
Commission site @ 20%
$360
taken per trip
Roughly $21,600 across 60 trips a year.
Commission site @ 30%
$540
taken per trip
Roughly $32,400 across 60 trips a year.
OBX Charter
$0
commission, on any trip
Flat membership — $249/mo promotional, $399/mo standard.
The founding-captain offer
- Promotional rate
- $249/mo
- Standard rate is $399/mo. Founding captains lock in the promotional rate.
- Free trial
- 60 days
- Two months before the first charge. Cancel inside the trial if it is not for you.
- Commission
- 0%
- You keep every dollar of the charter price. We never touch trip revenue.
- Payouts
- Next day
- Paid directly to your account through Stripe Connect.
Memberships carry a six-month commitment, then continue month to month and can be cancelled at any time. We will always give you notice before changing the rate you pay.
What you actually get
A trip page that books while you are on the water
Each trip gets its own page with your boat, your price and your photos. Customers pay a deposit through the page and you are notified immediately — no phone tag while you are offshore.
Availability by text message
Each afternoon you get one message listing the days ahead. Reply with a short shorthand — OI SAT AM— and your calendar is updated. No app required to keep your book straight.
Push alerts and a text fallback
Bookings, leads and schedule conflicts hit your phone through the captain app. If the app is not open, we text you instead, so nothing sits unread.
One inbox for your leads
Inquiries from your own website and from the marketplace land in a single tab alongside your bookings, so you answer them from one screen.
Payouts straight to your account
Trip money settles to your Stripe account on your own schedule. We are never in the middle of your cash flow.
A checked listing
We check your USCG license, NC for-hire permit and insurance before your listing goes live. That check is what makes customers trust the booking — and what separates this from a free classified.
What you need to list
- 1.A current US Coast Guard captain's license.
- 2.A North Carolina for-hire fishing permit.
- 3.Commercial liability insurance for your vessel and operation.
- 4.Photos of the boat, and a few lines about how you fish.
Onboarding takes about ten minutes. We will walk through the paperwork with you — you do not need to figure out the Stripe setup on your own.
Start your listing
Rather talk to us first?
Tell us about your operation and we will get back to you to finish setup.
Prefer to talk it through? Call(252) 573-5666or email[email protected].