Is it right for me?
Made for people who already boat.
Your favorite fishing spot. An afternoon on the lake. Dinner across the bay. WaterCar is built for the days you want more of. Explore on-water capability →
Made for local life
Can you get from home to the ramp?
Load up at home, cruise through the neighborhood, and head for your local launch. Coffee stops, waterfront dinners and sunset runs can all be part of the same day.
Most U.S. vehicle trips are under six miles. WaterCar brings that local-life idea to the waterfront, with electric driving on permitted roads.
Based on the 2022 National Household Travel Survey. View the trip-length data →
Picture your kind of day.
What you should already be comfortable with.
None of this is exotic. It is simply what any boat of this size asks. Before taking delivery, you should be at ease with:
- Running a boat of roughly this size in the conditions where you plan to use it
- Setting trim and managing throttle as conditions change
- Reading water, weather, and traffic, and knowing right of way
- Launching, docking, and handling the boat in close quarters
- Flushing the engine after a day in salt water
- Pulling the drain plug before it sits out in the rain
- Watching engine hours and fuel rather than trusting the gauge alone
- Ordinary seasonal care and keeping up with scheduled service
If you read that list and nodded through it, you already know what this boat is.
Picture yourself at the helm of a 19-foot bowrider.
If you can picture yourself stepping onto a well-equipped 19-foot bowrider at a dealer, taking the helm, and running it out of the harbor without thinking twice, the WaterCar will make immediate sense to you, and you will see in about ninety seconds what took twenty years to build.
If you cannot picture that yet, the honest answer is that the WaterCar is not the place to start. Being able to drive a car has never meant being able to run a boat, and this one does not pretend otherwise.
The WaterCar is a real planing boat, built to run in salt, fresh, and brackish water. Everything a boat asks of the person at the helm, it asks.
What makes it different is that it carries its own logistics. It drives from the garage to the ramp under its own power, launches, retracts its wheels, and runs as a boat. At the end of the day it drives home and parks in the garage.
It is not a car that floats. It is a boat you would want even if it never touched a road.
See the full specs →What it makes easy
The WaterCar removes the apparatus that grew up around boating: the trailer, the tow vehicle, the ramp line, the slip, the storage yard, the hour before you leave and the hour after you get home. That is the part it was built to eliminate.
What it does not change
It does not change the water. Trim still has to be set. Chop still has to be read. Weather still has to be respected. Right of way and judgment on the water are exactly what they have always been.
The WaterCar is not the top of any ladder, and it is not a stripped-down starter boat either. It sits about where any well-equipped 18-to-20-foot runabout, bowrider, or center console sits. If you are comfortable at the helm of one of those, everything about the WaterCar will feel familiar within a minute of leaving the ramp.
A WaterCar is owned the way a boat is owned. It lives in salt, sun, spray, and vibration, and it wants the attention any good boat wants. Rinse it, flush it, keep up with service, and it is built for long-term ownership. That is not a caveat. It is the deal every boat owner already knows.
It was engineered to be serviced where you live. The outboard is a Mercury, backed by its dealer network. The brakes, bearings, suspension, and controls come from suppliers that qualified marine and automotive technicians already recognize, through channels that already exist. Routine work does not mean a trip back to the factory.
The WaterCar is a full-size, fully capable boat, and the best first boat for anyone is a simpler one. Time on the water is the only thing that builds the judgment this or any boat asks for, and there is no way to shortcut it. Take a boating safety course. Get a season or two behind the wheel of something forgiving. Log the hours.
Then come back. We will still be here, and you will get far more out of it.
Owners come from further apart than anyone expected, but the pattern is consistent. Somebody who fishes and is tired of losing the first half hour of daylight to the ramp. A lake house with no lift and no appetite for bottom paint. A family whose Saturdays died in the loading and unloading. Someone two miles from water on a marina waitlist. A boater who has owned every kind of boat there is and simply wants another ten or fifteen years of it without the winch and the walk down a moving dock.
Nobody bought a WaterCar because it was amphibious. They bought it because something specific was standing between them and the water, and this was the machine that removed it.
We are not simplifying boating. We are simplifying boat ownership and access.
Ask us.
Call and talk it through. We would rather spend twenty minutes on the phone helping you decide than sell a boat to somebody it was never going to suit. If the answer is yes, we will tell you. If the answer is not yet, we will tell you that too.