Boat Hire Website - Building on the existing web design

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Web Design Brief

Boat Hire Sydney connects boat owners with people looking to charter a boat for their next big event.
There are now over 30 boats to choose from, so I need a nifty filter system to instantly reduce 30 boats down to a small number, based on some user preferences.
I want to use Ajax or similar so that the collection of boats instantly changes in front of you, rather than reloading.

Here is the page we are working with:
http://www.boathiresydney.com.au/c/all_boats

The page should not look drastically different to every other page on the site, so I suggest keeping the entire header section and the blue background but I'm open to ideas.
Your goal is to add dials / gauges / filters / input boxes or whetever way you can think of to allow the user to filter the list of suitable boats for them.
The attributes they can adjust are:
1. Number of guests (overall max is 400)
2. Budget (not exact figures, more like Luxury, Mid-High Range, Mid Range, Budget).

I suggest changing the profile images to make them very small so you can see them all on one page.
It's optional whether you keep all the other info on each boat, such as the short description, the attributes such as BBQ, the enquiry forms.
You must keep the Boat hire cost and the suitable for x number of guests part in some way for each boat.

Things we like:
Smooth, cool designs
Very easy to understand and use

Things we don't want:
Pagination

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Project Deadline Extended
Reason: This is my first time using the service, I would like more designs please.
Added Monday, September 09, 2013

Hey All,

Just to let you know, I've now guaranteed payment.

Thanks to the 2 designers for their work so far.

Doug.

Added Monday, September 09, 2013

3 Days to go!


Thanks for all the designs to date, we're getting closer but still not quite there yet.

Here's a summary of what's been working well so far:
1. Leave the header of the page untouched (http://www.boathiresydney.com.au/c/all_boats) from the logo down to the water line.
2. I like 2 horizontal sliders below the water line for filtering on number of guests and Quality/Budget. Ideally not taking too much vertical space.
3. I like small tiled boat images representing each boat, with at least 3 in each row. 
I like designs where hovering over the individual boat images blacks it out and reveals more info such as price, number of guests, short description, Enquire and (More Info) buttons. Unfortunately I don't think there's enough space to show the attributes such as BBQ?
The more boat images I can see above the fold the better, but unfortunately the smaller they are, the less room there is for extra info to be displayed when hovering over them.

Thanks and I look forward to more designs in the next couple of days.


Added Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Target Market(s)

Age 21 - 50

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A$300
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Project Deadline
21 Sep 2013 08:15:35 UTC
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