I used to LOVE searching for boats on the Yachtworld website. The changes to the web version implemented about a year ago (?) and the poor functionality of this lame app are so disappointing. Hard to search for more than one model of boat at the same time. Filters are clunky and don’t always work, hence the 3-star review. However, it is still the most comprehensive compendium of yachts for sale, so you won’t be able to find what you are looking for if you don’t make this your foundation to anchor (no pun intended) your search and ability to compare boats of similar makes and models.

I wouldn’t be so harsh if YachtWorld didn’t have a de facto monopoly on the used sailboat market. This app has one simple job: show a list of products, show details and pictures of individual products when clicked on, and most importantly - keep track of where the user was in the list when going back to the list. Instead we get pushed back to the top of the list every time because the developers can’t solve this monumental conundrum of computing? My peeps just store and update one variable representing the highest seen boat while scrolling and keep track of it, then show me that place in the list whenever I go back. If that’s too much, then when I’m viewing a specific boat and hit back to go to the list, at least put me at the place in the list where that specific boat is instead of the top. Also the filters don’t match the website (website is by region whereas app is by state). Pictures often don’t display correctly. Often I get “no results” for a search even though the blue button after setting filters says there will be results. Change one filter, search, change it back, search, and suddenly I now have results. Just pure untested jank.

I wish you could filter out certain things. Such as time share boats / fractional ownership or other items not interested in. Also some listings are really vague or have limited information about the boat they wish to sell. This is a loss to those trying to sell and not a fault to the developer. But what if the the developer could add fields to help encourage customers to add more data about there boats at the time they write up their ads (something to get better info). It seems weird that someone who wants to sell an expensive yacht but doesn’t make the effort to add as much detail as possible.Update: Dropping to 1 star. Perhaps not the fault of the app but I emailed Lelievre / Alize Marine from within the app. Shortly after i started getting really bad spam. I never ever had spam mail on that email before. I also never got a reply from that marine company either. Not sure why they would post an add with pictures that were clearly not the pictures of that boat or older pics. The description said the boat was hurricane damaged but the pictures were of a new boat. If i am wrong let me know and i will either update or delete my review.

This app has potential, but cannot do it's most essential jobs correctly. It only works in portrait on my iPad, which is in a keyboard case in landscape, so I have to remove it from the case to use. The images load but if you tap on them it will switch the images to landscape, but inexplicably crop the top and bottom off the pictures. Given that the value in an app selling boats is mainly in the pictures and it's handling of them, I can't understand why this simple functionality, show pictures, rotate the device as needed, display the entire image, is a bridge too far for the developers. Please fix image handling, please allow the app to rotate. I am typing this review with the app rotated 90 degrees and me tilting my head to see how many typos I have made. The saving grace for this app is mainly that compared to the website, which has the single worst image handling I have ever seen on a site specializing in selling million dollar boats, is even worse.