Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net Partners With Marinalife To Provide Online Dockage Reservations

For Immediate Release 

May 2, 2012  

The Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net (SSECN) and MarinaLife jointly and proudly announce a partnership to provide online dockage reservations through the SSECN web site. This online reservation capability, powered by Marinalife, makes it very easy for mariners to book dockage or moorings once they have located a Marinalife participating marina on the SSECN web site.

Visitors to the Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net web site will be able to peruse the extensive, professionally researched data in SSECN's various marina directories. Reservations can then be made on the same form, simplifying the process. Cruising the coastal waters from southern Virginia to the Western Florida coastline will now be a more enjoyable experience because of this new capability.

Joy McPeters of Marinalife commented on the partnership, saying, "Partnering with the Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net is exciting, and it allows us to help more people make the reservations they want quickly with our streamlined process." McPeters noted that Marinalife has seen a 26% increase in online reservation bookings this year. "Just like booking a hotel online, booking dockage and moorings online saves time and is so much easier."

Claiborne Young, co-founder of Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net, said, "We are honored to number such a prestigious company as Marinalife among our strategic partners. The cruising community will derive real value from using our web site's Marina Directories and then making dockage reservations via Marinalife without leaving our site.

Young added, "The Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net is already enjoying the greatest popularity it has ever known during the first four months of 2012. Now, with our MarinaLife partnership in place, alongside exciting future plans, we believe the SSECN is already moving forward into an entirely new phase of growth and development!"   

II. How Does It Work

Quite simply, what we have done is place colorful links within the professionally gathered listing of marina services, prices and specifications contained in our site's Marina Directories, so that, when clicked, the user is taken to a Marinalife reservation form, specific to the marina in question. No having to hunt through a list or type the name of your intended destination. That work is done for you.

Of course, the SSECN lists many more facilities in our various Marina Directories than those which have chosen to participate in the Marina Life reservation program. In these instances, the dockage reservation link will simply not appear.

As usual, an example is worth a thousand words. Please take a moment to go to:

http://www.CruisersNet.net/36-river-dunes-marina

This link will bring up the North Carolina Marina Directory Listing for River Dunes Marina, located just off the AICW and Neuse River. Scan down the listing, and locate the "Transient Dockage - Available" item.

Look just below this field, and there you will quickly see one example of the new links to Marinalife's dockage and moorings reservation service. Click this link, and a new window will open, taking you to a reservation form specific to River Dunes Marina. You should probably stop here, unless, of course, you want to make a dockage reservation at River Dunes.

Making a dockage reservation for all other Marinalife participating marinas works in exactly the same fashion, no matter where on any of our other reporting coastlines the marina in question happens to be located. 

III. Once Again, Our Sponsors Deserve All Your Thanks

The Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net's staff has been working with Captain Joy McPeters and her entire MarinaLife team for weeks to develop our new, joint marina dockage reservations capability. None of this work would have been remotely possible without the loyal support of our sponsors.

As had been said on many previous occasions, we respectfully ask our fellow cruisers to patronize our sponsors whenever possible, and take a moment to thank them for their support of the cruising community, by way of their support for the Salty Southeast Cruisers' Net! 

And, of course, if you happen to own or manage a marine related business, and would like to participate in the record shattering popularity our web site has already enjoyed during 2012, please give us a call at 336-266-1369!