About Us

Setting the Standard in Marine Excellence.

Empowering Your Adventures on Water.

At Nautical Marine Depot, we are Americas premier source for top quality marine and water sports products, proudly serving the USA and customers worldwide. From boats, yachts, and jet skis to outboard engines, accessories, and cuttingedge water toys, we offer an unparalleled selection to suit every adventure. Our expert team is not only highly trained and experienced but also genuinely passionate about helping you find the perfect gear for fun on the water. Whether you’re a family, business, resort, or global buyer, we are dedicated to delivering a personalized and extraordinary buying experience. We believe in promoting a healthy, adventurous lifestyle through water sports and recreation. With a diverse inventory from tenders, kayaks, SUPs, and dive gear to submersibles and yacht toy; we are the go-to people for fun on the water, in the USA and beyond.

Empowering Your Adventures on Water.

Nautical Marine Depot is a Jacksonville, FL-based boat dealership that has been in business for over 30 years and is operated by an award-winning team of professional boating enthusiasts. We are now opening a second location in Bluffton, SC!

Located on Clements Ferry and Cecil Reynolds, our facility houses boat displays, service areas, and a retail shop all under one roof. Our Lowcountry boat dealership is built for an affordable and quality-based, boat buying experience with a newly redesigned showroom and a service lot for large vessels.

Nautical Marine Depot carries Robalo, Chaparral, Nimbus, and EdgeWater Power Boats, along with Yamaha Outboards, Mercury Outboards, Volvo Penta and MerCruiser Stern Drive. Whether you are looking for a family boat, a water sports boat or an inshore fishing bay boat, we have a huge selection of new or pre-owned boats for sale as well as popular styles like bowriders, dual consoles, center consoles or walk arounds. We also carry Yamaha Outboards, Mercury Outboards, Volvo Penta and MerCruiser Stern Drives.

Our Culture

We pride ourselves in the development of our company, team, and inventory. Our goal is to promote professional and personal growth for our employees while they develop, excel and advance in their given position. We advocate for a strong work-life balance and fun company events.

Our values of Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Financial Strength resonate with our team as they provide our customers with exceptional service. 

We are also proud to be a part of and support local communities and charities throughout the Charleston and Bluffton areas.

 

Our Mission

It’s simple – to deliver an exceptional boating experience.

Driven by a passion for the boating lifestyle, we want to pioneer a new standard of boat ownership and help customers escape, recreate and share a love of boating with family and friends.

Set Sail with Confidence and Quality.

We are proud to announce that Global Marine Empire has been named the #1 Dealer for 2024 by Boating Industry at the prestigious Top 100 Dealer Awards!

This incredible achievement is a testament to the dedication, excellence, and teamwork. From sales and service to marketing, logistics, and beyond, every member has played a vital role in this success.

Thank you to our amazing team and loyal customers for making this possible.

Here’s to continued excellence!

About Our History

Many, many years ago my Wife and I fell in love with fishing. As time passed, simply being on the water with family and friends allowed us to relax and enjoy life while forgetting about life’s everyday trials. Our biggest problem we encountered was finding a quality used boat. Sure, there are many boats for sale on the market, yet so many we found were not described accurately, had many problems or were unreasonably priced. Often we failed to learn of the seller’s problem prior to making our purchase. Spending time on the water, I believe makes for a great day. However, when you are in a tournament and something as simple as the live well fails to work properly or worse, experience an engine problem while spending time with family and friends will prove to ruin what may be your only opportunity of the week to forget about life for awhile.

We believed we could continue doing what we love and make some extra side money by refurbishing boats and supplying customers with a quality product. Really a hard job to pass up, in fact doing what you love really makes it hard to classify as a job but a joy. Many years went by and the demand continued to grow. We went from selling 15 boats a year to nearly 80. The time came for us to make a choice as the hobby was quickly becoming a full time responsibility. Believe it or not, the decision was not easy to make and as you can see, we pursued the dream of selling quality boats.

Our new found business was created while working out of our back yard and quickly began to grow. We jumped to selling around 80 boats in the first year. If memory serves me right, breaking the first million dollar year in boat sales. Despite the fact as an economy we were on the verge of recession our business continued to grow and at a surprising rate, almost 40% each year. We found hundreds of customers were also tired of searching for a boat only to encounter the same problem we once did and we had the answer, a quality boat, reasonable prices and most importantly accurately marketed. To date we have satisfied customers in 44 of the continental 48 states, as well as 31 different countries.

As you can see, the business has now outgrown the back yard. Spring of 2011 was an exciting time for us. We selected a beautiful piece of property located in beautiful Faye Road, FL only minutes from the St. John’s River. With high hopes we knew we could prove to be successful by working towards the same goal as what brought us to this point: Quality – meeting all of the customers level of expectations through fairness and integrity. The new facility is nearly 10 acres and features a stunning 16,000 sq ft. building. This location offers plenty of room for growth yet one day in the future I’m confident we will again out grow this location… Speaking of growth, check out our state of the art ships store with all of the latest and greatest accessories / full freshwater tackle from specs to bass, we have what you’re looking for and at surprisingly very reasonable prices.

Rest assured, when you elect to make a purchase at Nautical Marine Depot, you will be investing in a turn-key boat that is sure to assist with making many positive memories with friends and family. We offer late model boats that are not only beautiful, every light / gauge / pump / and more has been tested prior to placing the boat on the market for sale. Our knowledgeable, friendly staff will be more than happy to assist with any of your questions or concerns.

Mission Statement – Be a state of the art business, using modern technology within the marine industry, marketing a quality product to satisfy customers’ boating needs worldwide. Our desire is to have all in one marine locations in countries worldwide. We are already a go to business that other marine businesses come to for wholesale supplies and assistance. all our business associates and employees are proud to be associated with.