It's Easy to have a Skippered Yacht Charter!

Not a sailor? No qualifications? Want a chauffeur? No problem!

Bareboat Sailing Holidays are easily able to provide a skipper and further crew for your bareboat sailing holiday if required.

In each location we have a pool of professional, experienced and qualified skippers to sail your yacht for you. From this ‘pool’ we are able to select the one best for you based on your individual requirements (leggy Spanish brunette, muscle bound Italian etc).

Skippers allow for non-sailors or sailors without qualifications to charter a yacht and experience what we sailors have been going on about for years. Being invariable local, the skippers are also able to advise you on ports to visit, restaurants to eat, places to swim and dive and then of course what locations to avoid.

Hiring a skipper is similar to hiring any piece of inventory (with all due respect to our skippers of course!), in that you order them as extra and we will add the charge accordingly. The cost of a skipper differs from location to location so please contact us directly for specific costs, but do be aware that you are responsible for the skipper’s food as well. This doesn’t mean wining and dining your skipper, but rather ensuring there is enough cereal, bread, and sausages to go around!

The skipper also needs to have their own cabin, so please bear this in mind when organising your sailing holiday party.

Your Skippered Charter Itinerary

When you take a skippered  charter you are still in absolute charge of where and when you sail - within reason! With this flexibility also come responsibility however, you should research the sailing area to work out what areas sound appealing to you. Not everyone is into historical architecture or partying until the early hours, so please use the 'places of interest' guides we send out, use our website and do research of your own...

Do also remember that not all requests are realistic, particularly with regard to weather. We suggest you sit down with your skipper on the first night, open a bottle of your finest,  get him to bring out  maps of the area and go through your research  and interest s with him. Local knowledge goes a long long way!

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