About Skipper's Locker

Buying a part for a boat is harder than it should be. Search results are full of things that nearly fit. Listings repeat the same product under a dozen names at a dozen prices. Nothing tells you whether a part actually suits your hull, your engine, or your year.

Most people end up cross-referencing part numbers in a forum thread from 2014, or buying the wrong thing twice.

A short list of marine gear, picked by hand, with a link to where you can buy it. That is the whole of it right now. We don't stock anything, we don't handle your money, and nobody pays to be on the list.

A catalog that does the tedious work the hand-picked list can't. None of this is live yet:

• •Collapse duplicates. The same pump sold under four listings becomes one product, with every price shown against it.
• •Record what fits what. Which boats, engines and years a part suits, listed on the product page so you can check before you buy.
• •Rank on quality, not just price.Cheapest is not the same as right, and the top result shouldn't simply be whatever a retailer is pushing this week.

When you buy through one of our links, the retailer may pay us a commission. The price you pay is unchanged, and nobody can buy their way onto the list or up it.

The full detail is on our affiliate disclosure page.

Early — earlier than the section above might suggest. Today the site is the hand-picked list and nothing more; the catalog, the search and the fitment data are all still being built. If there is gear you think belongs on the list, telling us is genuinely the most useful thing you can do — it goes straight onto what to look at next.

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