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| Types of Chartering | Crewed Charter
In this case you will get the boat, the skipper and crew and a good cook. It is one of the most expensive ways of chartering, you are to pay the salary of the crew and because you are taking more people the vessel is bigger and costs more to charter. But if you dream of sailing and just sit in the sun sipping a gin and tonic and watching others do the work, then this is for you.
Nearly all skippers won’t stop you from getting involved in the sailing of the boat in case you want to but if you wish to get more experience, think over an alternative form of charter.
Bareboat Charter
Such type of chartering offers you the ultimate freedom. Everything you will get is the boat and a consultation when you collect the boat at the beginning of the charter. Such consultation usually includes safety on board, a briefing about the way the various systems work on the boat and some local information of the planned cruising district.
And it’s absolutely up to you. Before getting a bareboat charter you should have some essential skills in navigation and seamanship, the level of which is partially determined by the planned cruising area. If you head for the Channel Islands, just of the coast of France in the English Channel, you will need more experience for a two week charter there, as there you may observe 5 meter tides with its numerous rocks and shoals lying just beneath the surface. Unlike an Ionian charter in Greece, that witness no tides, very little to bump into in terms of hidden rocks and most of the sailing between islands is by line of site.
Corporate Sailing
Various yacht charter companies provide a corporate charter. The yacht will be chartered by a company or organization and used for team building, an employee motivation reward or for customers’ entertaining.
A relatively modern novelty is to take the yacht for hen/stag parties. Those who are chartering a boat for any company purposes can get it with skipper and crew.
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