Yacht Rental Cape Town: Hire a Crewed Yacht

Yacht Rental in Cape Town: Hiring a Crewed Yacht

A yacht rental Cape Town through Chartercraft is private hourly hire of a fully-crewed yacht or catamaran, two-hour minimum, departing the V&A Waterfront Marina. Rates starts at the entry-level tier per hour on Le Cat (12 guests) and run up to premium-tier rates on Princess Emma (12 guests, premium tier). Rentals are by the hour, not by the day; bring your own catering or order through us; bar service quoted separately. Every vessel is SAMSA-licensed.

Yacht rental Cape Town or yacht charter? Same fleet

People search for both terms; we book the same boats either way. The two words describe the same product. Yacht rental is the phrasing most visitors use when they want a boat for a couple of hours on a specific day. Yacht charter is what the industry calls it. Same V&A vessels, same per-hour rates, same skippers. If you came in via the yacht charter page, you saw the same fleet table. Pick the page that matches what you’re looking for; the booking experience downstream is identical.

Hire a yacht Cape Town: short trip ideas

If you hire a yacht Cape Town for a tight two-hour window, what fits in that time? A few of the routes we run most often:

• Sundowner loop. Depart 90 minutes before sunset. Out past Mouille Point and Three Anchor Bay. Sun goes down behind the Twelve Apostles. Back in as the city lights up. Two hours, classic.
• Granger Bay anchor. Out of the Waterfront, east through Granger Bay, drop anchor for a swim or paddle. Two hours, kid-friendly.
• Clifton 4th drift. Two and a half hours. Up the Atlantic Seaboard, anchor off Clifton 4th if the swell allows, swim, drift back via Camps Bay.
• Birthday afternoon. Three hours. Same Clifton route plus on-board catering, bar service and a music playlist you supply.
• Hout Bay coastal. Four to five hours. South via Chapman’s Peak, the Cape fur seal colony at Duiker Island, back along the Twelve Apostles.

Rent a yacht Cape Town: what’s included

When you rent a yacht Cape Town through us, the per-hour rate covers:

• Exclusive use of the vessel for the booked period
• Skipper plus crew (ratio matched to guest count)
• Fuel
• Pre-departure safety briefing and equipment
• On-board sound system, Bluetooth-enabled

Quoted separately: catering, bar package, custom décor, photographer, wedding officiant, on-board entertainment. Most of these we arrange through Cape Town suppliers we’ve worked with for years; one booking call covers the lot.

Yacht hire Cape Town rates and fleet

Why book private yacht rental Cape Town through us

Private yacht rental Cape Town through Chartercraft means we don’t own the boats. We’re an independent booking agency working with about a dozen V&A operators. That means no incentive to push you onto the wrong vessel. When you tell us you want a quiet sundowner for eight people on a Saturday in February, we don’t try to sell you a 65-guest power cat just because we have one available.

• Per-hour pricing in Rand, no resort fees or commission loading
• Annual operator inspection on every listed vessel
• One booking manager per rental, start to finish
• Confirmation in 24 hours, signed terms before payment
• Skippers with five-plus years on this coastline

How the booking works

1. Pick a vessel from the table above (or use the booking filter on the site).
2. Send the request: date, group size, what you want to do.
3. We confirm availability and send a quote with terms in 24 hours.
4. Sign the terms, pay the deposit, we lock in the booking.
5. You get a final reservation email with the berth, time and skipper contact a week before.

Same-day or large-group enquiries: ring +27 (0)21 300 6180.

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