Guides

Destination Seventy-Four Islands, One Week. The Whitsundays are the reason most people charter in Australia at all. Here is how the fleet actually runs them, Whitehaven at first light, Hill Inlet on the tide, and the reef by air. The crossing The Case for Fiji by Superyacht. Three hundred and thirty-three islands, blue water that Australia cannot quite match, and a hull cleared to make the run. Why Fiji is the charter worth planning months ahead. Destination Sydney Harbour, By the Hour. The world's best harbour is wasted on the shoreline. How an afternoon aboard actually works, from the Heads to Cockatoo Island, and why the hourly charter is Sydney's best-kept format. Destination The Broadwater Behaves Like a Secret. Sheltered water, sand islands, and a city that parties at the shoreline while the anchorages stay quiet. The Gold Coast is the most underrated charter ground on the east coast. The business What a Charter Actually Costs. The weekly rate is the start, not the story. APA, crew gratuity, delivery legs and the numbers most brokers only explain after you ask, laid out plainly, because you should not have to ask. The business Choosing the Right Yacht Is Simpler Than It Looks. Guest count, water, season, format, four questions settle nine-tenths of the decision before a brochure is ever opened. The rest is taste, and taste is the enjoyable part. The business Why We Answer the Phone Ourselves. Most charter yachts are inventory on someone else's list. Ours are the yachts we own, crew and account for personally, and that changes the week you have aboard in specific, checkable ways. The season A Year on the East Coast, Charted. The fleet does not sit still, it follows the weather down the coast and across to Fiji and back. Where the yachts are, month by month, and when to book which water. Itinerary Seven Days, Whitehaven to Hardy Reef. A working itinerary from the yachts that run this water every season, anchorage by anchorage, tide by tide. Treat it as a starting point; the weather will edit it, and the crew will improve it. Itinerary Ten Days in the Mamanucas and Yasawas. Fly in over the reef, step aboard at Denarau, and spend ten days working north through two island chains that were built for exactly this. The working plan, bay by bay. The business The Boardroom Does Its Best Work at Anchor. Product launches, client days, milestones that deserve better than a function room, how event chartering works, what it costs, and why the water outperforms the venue every time. Life aboard The Galley Never Repeats Itself. Provisioned to your preference sheet, cooked to the morning's catch, served wherever the light is best. How eating works on a charter, and why it ruins restaurants for a while afterwards. The business Charter Types, Explained. Crewed for the week, by the hour for the evening, or built around a company. What each kind of charter actually means, what it costs, and which one is yours. Life aboard The Toy Box, Explained. Seabobs, tenders, paddleboards, the inflatable everything, a plain-language guide to what is actually in the garage, who each toy is really for, and what fills the afternoons at anchor. Destination Saint-Tropez to Monaco, the long way. Why the Cote d'Azur still rewards those who arrive by sea, from the quiet anchorages of the Esterel to a berth in Port Hercule for the Grand Prix. Destination Positano, before the first ferry. The Amalfi Coast has one road and it is always full. Arriving by sea turns Positano, Ravello and Capri into a private itinerary rather than a queue. Destination The Aegean, island by island. Six thousand islands, two hundred inhabited, a coastline sailed for five millennia. How to charter Greece properly, from the Cyclades to the Ionian. Destination A thousand islands, one sea. Croatia strings more than a thousand islands along the Adriatic. A superyacht turns Hvar, Vis, the Kornati and Mljet into one unhurried itinerary. Destination Four islands, four temperaments. From the cliffs of Cap de Formentor to a long lunch on Formentera, how to charter Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera at your own pace. Destination The Blue Voyage, done properly. Gulets, Lycian ruins and pine fringed anchorages from Bodrum to Kekova. How to charter the Turquoise Coast, and when to go. Destination Water like nowhere else on earth. From Nassau down the Exuma cays, swimming pigs, gin clear banks and empty sandbars. Where to anchor, what to eat and when to cruise the Bahamas. Destination A small island of serious polish. Red roofs in Gustavia, a quiet bay at Colombier and the best tables in the Caribbean. A charter guide to St Barths, in season and out. Destination Sailing's home waters. Line of sight islands, The Baths at dawn, lobster on Anegada and a Painkiller at White Bay. A superyacht guide to the British Virgin Islands. Destination The Caribbean, before the crowds. Bequia, Mustique and the Tobago Cays. Trade winds, lobster on the beach and empty anchorages in the quietest corner of the Caribbean. Destination Beyond the reef, a deeper blue. Five archipelagos, 118 islands and lagoon water no photograph gets right. How to charter French Polynesia properly, from Moorea to the Tuamotus. Destination Sails at the edge of the world. Fiordland waterfalls, Bay of Islands calm and crayfish eaten in sight of the snowline. Why New Zealand rewards the charter guest who sails furthest. Destination An ocean drawn in rings of light. Twenty-six atolls, manta rays by the hundred and a private sandbank every evening. The case for seeing the Maldives by superyacht, atoll by atoll. Destination Granite islands, a slower blue. Ancient granite islands, Creole octopus curry and outer atolls almost nobody reaches. The Seychelles, taken at anchor pace from Mahe to Aldabra. Destination Where limestone rises from the sea. Phang Nga Bay before the day yachts, the Similans in season and Phuket street food after dark. Thailand favours the yacht that moves early. Destination Seventeen thousand islands, one yacht. Komodo dragons before breakfast, Raja Ampat reefs beyond counting and a fleet that follows the seasons. Chartering the largest archipelago on earth. Destination Where the mountains fall into the sea. Thousand metre walls, water deep enough to idle beside a waterfall, and a coast that rewards patience. The fjords, done properly. Destination The last great wilderness coast. Tidewater glaciers, bubble-net humpbacks and anchorages with no one in them. What an Alaskan expedition charter really looks like. Destination South of everything. Crossing the Drake, or flying over it, for the emptiest coastline on Earth. Ice class yachts, penguin rookeries and the season that suits you. Destination Darwin's islands, on their own terms. Strict park permits, a naturalist on board and wildlife that never learned fear. How to charter the Galapagos properly, and when. Destination Sailing to the end of the world. Glacier Alley, Cape Horn and the granite towers of Torres del Paine. Chartering the far south of Chile, where the wind writes the itinerary.