| llowing article shows the spectacular way in which the | | | | and agent companies. These offer to organise a |
| bare boat sailing industry has developed in the past | | | | bareboat yacht charter anywhere in the world at |
| few years and the description of the process of | | | | very low cost by giving to a certain client the boat |
| hiring a bareboat. There are two important types of | | | | which bests fits his needs, these are of course linked |
| charters: the bare boat sailing charters and the | | | | to location and comfort. The cost of a bareboat |
| crewed charters. A bareboat yacht charter involves | | | | yacht charter is determined by the size of the yacht, |
| the hiring of a boat for a certain period of time to a | | | | its age, its experience, often called pedigree, the |
| person, who is also responsible for skippering it. | | | | number of crew, if it has one, and of course the |
| The bare boat sailing charter industry has become | | | | destination. |
| familiar to a larger number of people since the middle | | | | A worldwide range of bareboat charter prices’ |
| of the 1990’s and especially since 2000, during | | | | have been estimated between $1000 and $25000 |
| this time the sailing and yachting have become very | | | | per person during a week. Due to these very good |
| popular among those looking for sailing holidays. When | | | | prices and large diversity of destinations all the |
| we talk about bareboat yacht charter or bare boat | | | | experienced and semi-experienced yachties prefer |
| sailing charters we actually refer to arranging the | | | | sailing holidays to the inland ones. Every year this |
| hiring of a boat, without including the crew and | | | | branch of tourism is being enlarged by new sailors. |
| provisions in the agreement, these are meant to be | | | | What is more, for all the beginners, the agent |
| brought by the temporary owner of the boat who | | | | companies offer courses for seamanship and teach |
| also uses it for that period of time. | | | | people all the basic rules required to bareboat charter. |
| The most important difference between the bare | | | | They also help the novices by giving them skippers |
| boat sailing charters and other similar types of boat | | | | with the boats, but no crew, just like bare boat |
| arrangement is the legal one. The voyage charters, | | | | sailing charters arrangements should be. |
| the ones in luxury yachts, are based on the hiring of | | | | All in all, we can say that this increasingly important |
| the crew as well, while a bareboat yacht charter | | | | bareboat yacht charter industry helps us firstly |
| implies only the temporary change of owner, who is | | | | organise a pleasant holiday anywhere in the world, |
| obliged to bring its own captain and crew. | | | | and it is also a strong promoter of every national |
| The increasing development of this industry has | | | | branch of tourism, bringing each year a huge amount |
| brought with it a large number of bareboat brokers | | | | of money to the local and national economy. |