These are UK-based operators and charter companies offering sailing holidays and chartered yachts. Some also offer learn-to-sail courses and tuition based on the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) qualifications (skipper or crew) for yacht and dinghy sailing and for windsurfers. |
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| Activity Yachting |
0845 345 7418 |
Bareboat and flotilla sailing operation in Croatia, and agents for a broad range of bareboat and other sailing holidays in Greece, Croatia and Turkey. |
| Boat Bookings.com |
020 7193 5450 |
Yacht chartering specialist with a huge selection of over 5000 boats - from day power boats to sailing yachts to super yachts - available in the UK, French Riviera, Ibiza, Palma, BVI, Caribbean, USA, & Thailand. |
| Camper & Nicholsons International |
020 7491 2950 |
Yacht builders, turned brokers, agents, and charterers. We are talking big yachts here, so get your gold card out. |
| Cosmos Yachting |
020 8878 0880 |
Bareboat and crewed yachting holidays in the Mediterranean (esp Greece), the Caribbean, Florida, Bahamas, Seychelles, and the South Pacific. |
| Crestar Yachts |
020 7730 2299 |
A charter fleet of around 60 motor yachts in the 100-150ft/10-12 guests bracket, in locations all over the world. |
| Edmiston |
020 7495 5151 |
Charter company for mega-yachts. |
| Elemental Adventure |
0870 7387838 |
Sailing holidays off-the-beaten-track (or 'tack'?) for example in Thailand, Alaska, Mexico, and the Southern Pacific. |
| Euro-Sail |
01473 833001 |
Bareboat & skippered sailing holidays from Vilamoura in Portugal. They also operate RYA approved sailing courses. |
| Girls For Sail |
02380 36 36 36 |
Women-only sailing holidays in the waters of the UK, Australasia, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. All skill-levels catered for. Holidays are based around cruises or international race events. They also have their own charter company, GFS Charters offering bareboat and crewed boats... for all sexes. (btw. If you were wondering if there are 'men for sail' see notes below - Ed) |
| Kestrel Travel |
01672 520651 |
A worldwide selection of over 200 boats. |
| Mark Warner |
08708 480480 |
Well-known and well-respected family-orientated sailing & watersports centres around the Mediterranean. |
| Minorca Sailing Holidays |
020 8948 2106 |
Holidays based at a sailing & windsurfing centre on Minorca with accommodation (hotels, apartments, villas) on land. Good for families & beginners. |
| Minotaur Sailing Holidays |
01785 285434 |
Bareboat charter and skippered sailing holidays in the Ionian Sea, Greece. Also 'Sail & Stay' holidays based on Meganisi Island (hotel or apartment).. |
| Moorings, The |
01227 776677 |
Huge range of yachts, big & small, in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean, USA, and Pacific, for bareboat, skippered, or flotilla sailing. One of the two big names in yachting Holidays (the other being Sunsail - see above). |
| Neilson |
0870 333 3356 |
Sunworld Sailing, has now been incorporated into its sister company, Neilson Ski. The merged company is Neilson Active Holidays Ltd. They offer Flotilla holidays and bareboat charter in Greece and Turkey. |
| Nigel James Yacht Charter |
020 8568 8562 |
Yacht charters, crewed & bareboat, in The Mediterranean, covering the Greek islands, Turkey, Spain, Mallorca, Italy, along with the Caribbean, Seychelles & the south Pacific island paradise of French Polynesia. |
| Nigel Burgess |
020 7766 4300 |
Large & super-large yacht broker/agent/charterer. Both sail and motor yachts for corporate & private charter. |
| Nonstop Sail |
01803 833 399 |
Devon based sailing school operating RYA courses for sailors both in the UK and abroad (Canaries, Caribbean). They alos offer six week adventure sailing breaks in the Caribbean, Atlantic and around Britain. Sister brand to Nonstop Ski.
 Podcast/MP3 clip Marketing Manager, Tom Gordon-Walker, talks about NonStopSail - Oct 07. (3' 45") |
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| OceanBlue |
020 8360 9191 |
Independent yachts charter agent, for Bareboat, Skippered and fully crewed yachts in Greece, Turkey and Croatia |
| Penelope Kellie - World Wide Yacht Charter & Tours |
01962 779317 |
Luxury sailing holidays on fully crewed yachts, often large ones! They cover Latin America, the Caribbean, the Med, Scandinavia, Indian Ocean, Australasia and the Far East. |
| Sail Greece |
01484 688248 |
UK agents for Nicopoli Yachts & Villas based in the Ionian and, since 1984, offering yacht charters, flotilla, bareboat and beach villas for 'sail & stay' breaks.
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| Sailing Holidays |
020 8459 8787 |
Flotilla & bareboat among the Greek & Dalmatian islands. Celebrating their 30th year in 2006. |
| Set Sail Holidays |
01737 764443 |
Flotilla sailing holidays and bareboat charter in Greece, Croatia, Turkey and Majorca. |
| Sunsail |
0870 777 0313 |
One of the two 'biggies'. Between them Sunsail & Moorings have more boats and more charter options in more destinations than anyone else. Sunsail operate over 1000 yachts on both flotilla and bareboat charter from 36 bases in 25 different countries, including such exotic destinations as the Whitsundays, Tahiti, the Seychelles, Thailand and Vietnam in the Asia Pacific region. They also operate 8 watersports beach clubs, 4 in Turkey, 3 in Greece and 1 year round resort in Antigua. Sunsail was originally founded in 1974. It was bought by First Choice Holidays PLC in 1999 and is now part of First Choice Activity Holidays.(See research notes below for more details.) |
| Sunvil Sailing |
020 8758 4780 |
Sunvil Holidays' programme of sailing holidays based on Levkas in the Ionian Sea and features Learn-to-sail, Flotilla, Bareboat and Villa-Flotilla holidays. There is a flotilla/sightseeing cruise into the Sea of Corinth - an area rarely visited by flotillas - which includes three one-day stopovers at the ancient sites of Delphi, Corinth and Olympia. |
| Tall Ship Adventures |
023 9283 2055 |
The Sail Training Association runs activity holidays for young people learning to sail tall ships. |
| Templecraft Yacht Charters |
01273 812333 |
Bareboat charter and flotilla sailing in France, Italy, Spain & Greece. |
| Temple World |
020 8940 4114 |
Yacht (gulet) cruising in Turkey & Greece. |
| Tenrag |
01227 721874 |
Long-standing yacht charter company with yachts in a very wide range of destinations. Mostly bareboat - the company describes itself as "A service by yachtsmen for yachtsmen" - but some crewed yachts available also. |
| Top Yacht |
01243 520950 |
Bareboat charter & skippered yachts in the Med (esp Turkey), caribbean, Seychelles, Whitsundays & Polynesia. |
| Wildwind |
01920 484516 |
Dinghy sailing holidays on Levkas, Greece |
| Yacht Charter Club, The |
020 7580 3447 |
Large yachts for fully-crewed charter, glamourous 'honeymoon' charters, and some smaller bareboat charters. Also a programme of luxurious hotel & yacht combination holidays in the Caribbean and elsewhere. |
| Yacht Connections |
01590 671 667 |
Fully-crewed sailing yachts (mostly) and motor yachts in the Caribbean (mostly) , Mediterranean, and other worldwide locations. |
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| Research Tips: | * | Not really an operator, but Simon Bornhoft's Windwise runs windsurfing courses in various locations including the British Virgin Islands, Egypt (Red Sea), Turkey and Maui. |
| * | WaveRiders (0870 745 5646) operate kite surfing holidays on Egypt's Red Sea coast, Cyprus, and Margarita island, Venezuela. |
| * | Zuza Expeditions (01326 374989) runs Zuza, a 22m sailing research vessel fully equipped to conduct worldwide explorations and charters. This summer, 2005, they are running a series of short charters in UK waters, mainly diving but also climbing and sailing, from Falmouth up to Scapa and back. They are selling berths on these trips and similar trips in the future. |
| * | Men 4 Sail (08444 999 500) offer fully crewed yacht charter holidays on their 42ft yacht on the Côte d'Azur, South of France, catering for families, couples and groups of friends who want to experience life on a luxury sailing yacht. They tell us they've been operating for three years now, with 70% of their guests re-booking. |
| * | Sunsail (see above) has re-organised into two separate divisions: Sunsail Clubs – Activity & Watersports Beach Resorts and Sunsail Flotillas, and Sunsail Worldwide Yachts division - focusing on bareboat and skippered charter holidays around the world including the Platinum Luxury Yacht Charter product, as well as Sunsail’s Sailing Schools and Corporate Sailing Division here in the UK, and Sunsail's Yacht Partnership scheme for boat ownership. From September 05 there will be separate brochures covering flotilla holidays and bareboat and skippered yacht charter, whereas before they were combined. Sunsail Clubs, Sunsail Yacht Partnership, Sunsail UK Sailing Schools, Sunsail UK Yacht Charter and Sunsail Corporate Sailing will all have their own separate brochures. |
