Is there anywhere you can charter a Mobo bare boat?

[Whitelighter]

In the UK, or more specifically the Solent. They all seem to be big 50ft plus jobbies with skipper only, yet in the med it seems possible to charter a 34-37 foot boat fairly easily.

What sort of cost would you expect something like an S34 on bare boat to be? More or less than the equivalent skippered rate?

 

[Chas25]

This place have a Targa 37 from £500 + Vat per day for bareboat, can't imagine something slightly smaller would be significantly different

 

[MedDreamer]

Why the question? Are you thinking of chartering your boat?

 

[Whitelighter]

Want to do an extended weekend on the boat with a few friends, one of whome is an ex-moboer but currently boatless. Our is not really good for more than 4, so thought chartering somrhting of equivalent size for four more would make a nice W/E of it.

 

[tcm]

not much bareboat power charter in uk.

Partly i think tides and likely bigger winds means everything is more complicated - so even on sailing boats, charter co's are wary of cients from non-uk waters.

Also not huge demand as in med cos itisn't so sunny. powerboatig makes less sense in rubbish weather - it's a sunshiney thing, wind in hair, like convertible car.

Also loads more powerboats in med cos of extra sun.

Also er *praps* a bit more oops a bit overstretched boaties in med doing a bit of charter, or at least there were before clampdowns...

However, poster "observer" charters his boat bareboat i think? 43-45 ish footer i think?

 

[gjgm]

I think there s a Windy 37 at lymington. Berthons use it, so I m sure they know the set up.

 

[Retaco_04]

Hi,
I have done some crewing recently on a Sealine F37 in the Solent the boat is based in Portsmouth, I am sure he would do bare boat charter. Great bloke who owns it, let me know if you want his e-mail or mobile.
Regards
Chris

 

[tcm]

\"i\'m sure he would do bareboat charter\"

ah, He can't just lend it out, far too simple. That would require that the owner and renter weighing up the risks themselves. But of course not being politicians with iffy law degrees and people voting for them it means they are completely unable to run their own lives, and quite frankly I wonder how people manage to do anything at all since the govt has consistently FAILED to wake people up in the morning and go to work to pay their taxes, ever.

Er anyway a British registered boat has to be "coded" in other words licenced and for that it has to have lots of chandlery on board and other things including a surveyor expertly tapping it and a black line painting on it, and appropriate insurance too. Not all ofthe coding process/requirements are silly but some of them are, a bit.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

there stuff you can charter on the thames around windsor i think.Okay its v limted to up river down river and about four knots but it is a boat.
i would assume insurance premium probably kills the market here that and the weather

and if you're prepared to go on the shropshire union or to llangollen you can get something 60 foot. although there may be a stipulation to smoke a pipe and for your wife to sell clothes pegs.

 

[alastair]

Hi Jez,
I can charter Java Bean (F37) bareboat, after a call to my insurers, but only for suitably qualified skippers. However skippered charter is far more popular. AFF Charters will bareboat too, but this is a larger boat.

Alastair
www.javacharter.co.uk

 

[blueglass]

You can hire them on the Scottish lochs/canals. I think Blakes do it.Restricted to non tidal areas but the highlands are your oyster. Long way from the solent though!

 

[Observer]

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