Welcome yacht07, to the forum.
You are underestimating the hard work. This is not a canned website generator. There is a lot of time, money and at least 1000 cups of coffee invested in this website.
Good point. I jumped the gun assuming it was a canned generator. Now I am understanding your background. You are a developer and/or boat builder with little marketing experience. That's why we're busting your chops. You need to hone your marketing skills to make this site successful.
And please stop despising me. I am 35 y/o, built 100's of boats, designed the largest (45m) epoxy composite yacht ever built in Turkey, contributed to many multinational projects, published on magazines several times and educated many young engineers in boatbuilding and design. I am not an amateur and I never start any work with amateur desires. Whatever I have done in my life so far, I have finished professionally. You do not have to save me from anything. If you have something valuable to say, I'm listening but not to your underestimating and conceited words.
We're the same age (within 4 years). I've been on the web since my browser was Gopher. I got my first computer as a child.. a Sinclair ZX-81 I used hook up to a black and white TV to program in basic on.Being that we're the same age, you probably know what I'm talking about. After Gopher, I was amazed when Mosaic came out and used to run that on my Sparc Station at NASA. So yeah... I do appreciate your background and that you took a lot of time to put all that PHP/MySQL together to get that site up and running... I see BoonEx is something like Wordpress, but for social media. Good job there.
How did you do all that boat design and building if you were developing websites all these years? I'm thinking one of them is your true profession, not both.
However... you need to get rid of the "powered by Boonex" stuff. It makes your site look unprofessional (from a marketing standpoint).
Also, as everyone has said, you need to let people in the front door before you ask them to sign up. Get rid of the intro video and allow and "anonymous" or "guest" user group to read only. I can see you've been doing plenty of web development, but now it's time to work on your SEO skills. If you don't have at least a robots account to go through your site and index everything, you're not going to get anywhere... nobody will find your site. You need to open it up and only have accounts required when someone wants to post or make a profile. That's how it's done.
I am not trying to make money out of a social network website here. All I wanted to do is to get together the people involved in boating in one single environment. At least this is what I have seen missing in our business based on my experience.
You still haven't replied to my question. How can you be so sure , while you haven't even gone through any single page other than the homepage?
Obviously, I've been in now. What is the "ads" section for? Seems like a place I would never go to as a user.
And why does everything keep disagreeing? You say you're 35 here, then your profile on the site says 34. You say you're from Turkey, now it says Kuwait.
I was programming in Basic with that commodore and record them on tapes. Graphics with ASCII days .. 
Then I had my IBM with Intel 8086 on board!!!! Wow, 5 1/4 " 8MB hard drive. You need to remove around 30 screws to get into the case 
LoL, I remember Sinclair pretty well. I had a Commodore 64 though
Anyway, I'm glad you appreciate my work. You are right with this marketing issue. I need some help. That's why I'm talking to you now
Yes, I have the robots, analytics etc all setup. Meta tags , keys all in place. It's just been 10 days since I got the domain name, so it would take some more time to get crawled.
As you can see, I did not register any fake accounts. People bulk in 150k profiles in the beginning to make it look crowded. We don't need that!
Now, I am 95% done with coding (I think). All I need is some advice and help from my fellow colleagues.
