About us

Built in Kentucky, for marinas like yours.

Field Guide Marina is made by Field Guide Digital, a small web and marketing studio in Corbin, Kentucky. We’ve built websites and marketing for lake marinas for years. Field Guide Marina is what happened when we decided they deserved better tools than spreadsheets and phone tag.

Fall color on the sandstone shoreline of Laurel River Lake, from our photo shoot for Grove Marina

Laurel River Lake, close to home.

How it started.

Field Guide Marina began with one marina and one very ordinary problem. A tenant was away when the renewal notice arrived, and when the marina called, the only ways to pay were a check in the mail or a visit to the office. Everyone involved knew there had to be a better way.

So we spent a year with that marina before writing much code: how the office ran, what tenants needed, how boat rentals were booked and how no-shows were handled. Then we built the first version of the system, to do exactly what they needed. Renewals and payments moved online, boat rentals were paid in advance, and the notebooks and filing cabinets started to empty.

It’s a real system, built by real people, to solve real problems. And it isn’t finished. We keep listening to marina owners, staff, tenants and renters, and what we hear becomes the next improvement.

What we believe.

Prices belong on the website.

You shouldn’t need a sales call to find out what something costs. Ours are published, and the setup fee is too.

Your money is yours.

Payments go straight to your marina’s account. We never hold your money, and we never take a cut of a booking.

Your records are yours.

Your domain, your website and your data belong to you, and you can download a full copy any time.

Always listening.

Every improvement starts with something an owner, a dock hand, a tenant or a renter told us.

The builders are the support.

The people who set you up are the people who answer when you need help.

Honest about the details.

We’ll tell you plainly what it does today, so there are no surprises in July.

Marinas we work with.

Cherokee Lake, Tennessee. Boat rentals and their website.

Laurel River Lake, Kentucky. Boat rentals and their website.

Laurel River Lake, Kentucky. Boat rentals and their website.

Come see what we built.

Thirty minutes on a working marina, and all the questions you want to ask.