A curated marketplace for boats
Exceptional boats deserve a better marketplace.
Curated wake boat auctions. Detailed listings, organized with AI and reviewed by Ballast. Transparent bidding. A better way to buy and sell.
Live auctions
Nothing live right now
No auctions are live right now
There's nothing to bid on at the moment, and we can't say when the next boat will be listed. Here's what you can do in the meantime.
Get an email when a boat you want goes live
Choose a make, and a model and years if you like. When a matching auction goes live, we email you: one email per boat, with a link to stop whenever you like.
Alerts are free. They need a Ballast account with a confirmed email address, and nothing more: no payment and no ID check. (Signing up also asks for a phone number to finish joining the community; alerts only need the email.)
We can't say when a matching boat will be listed, or whether one will be.
See how bidding works
What you need to bid, what winning costs, how long an auction runs, and how a reserve works.
Selling a boat? List it free
List free. The buyer pays Ballast's 5% platform fee, included in the winning bid.
Your boat. Your setup. A better wave.
See how community members dial in their boats. Explore shared setups, share your own, and get feedback from the community.
2023 Nautique Super Air Nautique G23 Paragon
Port weight gives it a wide slope. Lead bags on pot clean up the lip
The Ballast standard
We believe knowing more means buying better.
Most listings give you a price and a few photos. Ballast listings follow one structure — specs, sorted photos, disclosed defects — so you can compare like with like. The details are the seller's, and a Ballast administrator reviews every listing before its auction goes live.
Photos, sorted by what they show
Exterior, interior, engine and hours, surf setup, electronics, trailer, service history — grouped so you can find what matters, not scroll through fifty random shots.
Defects disclosed, not buried
Known issues are called out in their own section, up front, instead of cropped out of frame. They are the seller's disclosure: Ballast doesn't inspect boats.
Facts, organized into one spec sheet
AI helps turn the seller's notes, answers and any research they share into one consistent spec sheet — not a wall of text to dig through. It only suggests: the seller confirms each fact before it's shown, and AI doesn't verify anything about a boat.
A Ballast administrator reviews every listing before its auction can go live. They can approve it, ask the seller for changes, or decline it. A review is not an inspection, and Ballast doesn't certify a boat's title, condition, engine hours or mechanical integrity.
Questions before you bid or list?
Send us a message about an auction, selling a boat or your account, and we'll reply by email.