Cumberland Charter Yachts (61-7-4946-7526; ccy.com.au) was also spoken well of by other bareboater sailors, and there are several other outfits as well (search "bareboat Whitsundays").
On bareboat charter, which is less frequently used in ordinary commercial practice, the owner of the ship delivers it up to the charterer for the agreed period without crew, stores, insurance, or any other provision.
There are four principal methods of chartering a tramp ship voyage charter, time charter, bareboat charter, and "lump-sum" contract.
However, before you commit yourself to a bareboat charter, it's worth considering that elsewhere in the Canaries the seas can get very rough.
He bareboat chartered sailboats with his family in the Caribbean and crewed aboard sailboats on ocean crossings.
A package costs £1,750 for a seven-night bareboat (uncrewed) charter for up to six people in two cabins and bunks in the living area, with snorkelling gear (excludes damage waiver and fuel).
Our three classmates would press on for the rest of the week to earn their bareboat credentials.
Some bargains, for example, are available now for Caribbean charters this fall and winter: through Oct. 24, the Moorings is cutting the price of a two-week, 41-foot bareboat charter for six passengers in the British Virgin Islands by 25percentto to $3,308.
For $1,053 a week, experienced sailors can take a so-called bareboat charter -- the kind on which you do everything yourself -- on a 32-foot Moorings sailboat large enough for four passengers in the British Virgin Islands, through Oct. 24.
A sailboat for two to eight people is typically 30 to 61 feet, and can be chartered with an English-speaking skipper and cook ($135 and $100 a day respectively) or with no crew, that is, "bareboat".
Mr. Lunney said it might be a bareboat charter — renting a boat with no captain or crew — in the Virgin Islands.
