Sail Boat Chartering

"Remember now, keep the cabin simple with everything stowed where it won't get wet or shifted in a knockdown. Eat sensibly. Don't get sunburned, for no berth is comfortable under those circumstances. Make the whole cruise an interesting game where you have pitted your wits against the elements: try to do everything in the best and simplest way; try to improve your technique each time; rest and relax whenever you can, for there may be some occasion coming when you will need a well-rested mind and body. If you cruise this way for a week in a small sailboat you will be greatly refreshed and strengthened, and if you go for a whole month you will feel like a Clydesdale stallion in the leafy month of May."

- L. Francis Herreshoff, Sensible Cruising Designs

This page is new and evolving. You should also check amoung the tall ships section, since many of those vessels provide opportunities. Also, many of the sailing schools also have chartering opportunites, and some charter companies provide educational opportunities.

Charter Overview and Services Sites

Sail-On-Line.com: The purpose of this site is to serve exclusively the charter community, with insider tips for charterers, charter boat owners, and most importantly, would-be charter boat buyers.
Bareboat Yacht Charter Guide: From Mike and Jane Cobbe.
Custom Float Plans: Provide suggested itineraries, waypoints, local knowledge, and tourist information for your intended cruising area. U.S. East Coast.

Down Under (Australia, New Zealand)

Boating OZ Charters & Events: Information on Australia as a boating holiday destination.
Picot's New Zealand Charter Guide
Whitsunday Yacht Charter: Whitsunday Islands, Australia.

The Mediterranean and Vicinity

Sailing with ARION
Frode Fanebust's Sailing Adventures in Greece: Chartering in the Greek Islands, and other info.
SeaScape: Adventure Sailing opportunity in the Greek Islands on a 53' sloop as well as a whole bunch of other info on bareboat chartering, sailing conditions, wind, weather, etc etc, relating to Greece.
K. Yachting: An Athens based sailing company involved in chartering, sailing cruises, offshore racing, and yacht management in the Greek Islands.
WaterWays, L.L.C.: WaterWays specializes in chartering sailboats for cruising the Greek islands and the Aegean Sea.

The Caribbean and Vicinity

Caribbean Yacht Charters: Offering charters in the Virgin Islands for the past 20 years.
Libreterre's chartering in the lesser Antilles
Shadowfax....Leeward Island Cruises

Pacific Northwest

Cooper Boating Center: Yacht Charter and Sailing School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Mystic Moorages: Bareboat sailing charter, Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Islands, Alaska.
Sailing, Inc: Located in Seward, Alaska. They offer skippered, guided and bareboat charters as well as ASA instruction.
Top of the World Sailing Charters: Offers long and short term excursions into the aquatic wilderness of Alaska's inside passage as well as sailing and exploration on the gulf of Alaska coast.

Other North America

Bareboat Sailing Charters: Newport, Rhode Island.
North Cove Sailing School: New York City.
North Huron Charters: A charter service from the town of Blind River on the North Shore of Lake Huron.
Elsie: Cape Breton Island.
San Diego Yacht Charters: San Diego Yacht Charters is located on Harbor Island in San Diego Bay. They offer both sail and power bareboat yachts ranging in size from 28 feet up to 43 feet.
Spinnaker Sailing: San Francisco Bay.

Other Europe

Canaries Cruising Club: In Tenerife.
Danish Schooner Charter
Europe Sailing: Chartering two traditional schooners, Luciana and Catherina in the Netherlands, Baltic, and Canary Islands.
Frisian Sailing Company: A charter company in Holland, specializing in crewed traditional sailing vessels. They sail on the inland Dutch waters (IJsselmeer, Waddenzee and Frisian lakes) and the Baltic Sea. These sailing boats are former cargo vessel, built between 1890 and 1930 and have a typical flat bottom and lee boards on each side of the ship.
Cirrus Jachiverhuur: Chartering vessels from Marina Schokkerstrand which is located directly on the Ketelmeer in the Netherlands.
Scandinavian Charter Yachts: A charter broker with the western coast of Norway as a specialty.
Arctic Circle Yachting: Out of Bodø in northern Norway.
de Zeilvaart: Chartering traditional sailing vessels. Enkhuizen, The Netherlands.
sailcharters.nl: A website containing a database with (almost) all traditional sailing ships that you can charter in the Netherlands. Also, http://www.zeilcharter.nl, http://www.segelcharter.nl.

Cool Places or Cool Boats!

Expedition Sail: Articles, photos & charter info about chartering in high latitudes, especially Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego, and South Georgia. Kate & Hamish Laird
Victory Yacht Cruises: Exploring The "Uttermost Part Of The Earth": Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the Strait of Magellan
Lions on the Beach: World Wide Private Sailing Safaris.
Dirigo Cruises Ltd.
Challenge Business: Various racing and cruising opportunities.

Organizations with Multiple Sites

Sailboats Inc.: Sailing Instruction and chartering.
Charter Sailing Unlimited: Chartering in Chicago, and the Virgin Islands.
The Moorings®: Charters available in lots of places.
Star Clippers
Windjammer Barefoot Cruises

Yes. My eighth grade geography teacher is now probably rolling over in her grave in the way I have divided up the world.

I'm always open to adding resources to my list, so if you know of other items, give me a holler: mbrmbr@acm.org

Form last updated: Sun Aug 22, 2004