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At its heart, a yacht charter is a love letter to the natural environment as you float through landscapes of astonishing beauty and witness marine life in all its splendour.
A yacht charter is the experience of being immersed in life-affirming nature — swimming in sunlit seas, walking through rainforests, and kayaking through icebergs. And every day, at every turn, those endless views of sky and sea, the deep breaths of salty air, the warm evening breeze as you dine on a remote sandbank under the moon.
And there’s never been a better time for nature lovers to indulge in the yachting life, as a new fleet of eco-conscious yachts spreads across the globe. The green wave is breaking across the superyacht industry, revolutionising environmentally conscious tech, marine products and practices. Today, luxury yacht charter allows you to get up close and personal with the planet’s most exotic places and wildlife while leaving a smaller environmental footprint (or splash) than ever before.
It can be easy to be distracted by a superyacht’s heady glamour, the pampering, the food, and the service. But the true star of a yachting vacation is the environment.
The gasp of appreciation as you drop anchor in paradise — in a turquoise lagoon or the shadow of a glacier. The childlike thrill of hanging over the bow watching the dolphins leaping in the bow wave. The peaceful wonder that closes over you as you sink beneath the surface, watching the vast wings of manta rays soar above you. The awe of a killer whale breaching against a backdrop of snowy mountains.
A yacht lets you leave the busy world behind as you cast out into nature. To breathe deep and glory in the exquisite beauty of this earth.
If your idea of luxury is revelling in nature, there are two crucial ingredients to the perfect superyacht charter: physical grandeur and up-close experiences with wildlife.
The increase in world-cruising and explorer yachts has opened the globe to charterers, introducing the exotic wonders of remote cruising in the tropics and cold-climate cruising.
For a cold-climate wonder, Alaska and Antarctica both offer a once-in-a-lifetime combination. In Alaska, killer whales hunt in the fjords, and you spend days kayaking through milky-blue iceberg fields and watching grizzly bears amble on the edge of the forest that runs to the Arctic Circle. In Antarctica, the forbidding white wastes and lonely mountains create a backdrop of jaw-dropping splendour while colonies of penguins and seals clamour on rocky beaches.
For a nature-lover’s yacht charter in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives cannot be beaten for its marine life and picture-perfect atolls. But, at the same time, Seychelles is a rainforest paradise of giant tortoises and breathtaking beaches with enormous granite boulders.
In SE Asia, Raja Ampat in Indonesia will imprint on your memory its spectacular karst and jungle landscapes and its coral feeding grounds for whale sharks and sperm whales. At the same time, a charter in the Australian Kimberley offers a fierce, wild look into nature at its most dramatic. New Zealand provides an irresistible temperate climate cruising through fjords and Pacific islands teeming with seals and whales. At the same time, further north in the Pacific, quiet Palau promises an underwater Serengeti in a pristine sea.
In Central America, Costa Rica offers a landscape of volcanoes and coconut palm beaches, a place where monkeys and jaguars inhabit the cloud forests, while in Mexico, the waters of the Baja California Peninsula are a gathering ground for the big pelagics, who frolic and give birth in clear turquoise waters edging desert landscapes.
A significant change has happened over the last two decades in the superyacht industry as it transitions to a greener future. At first, the difference was a trickle and then a tide. A rising tide lifts all boats, and that rising tide is green. Today, yacht charterers have many environmentally conscious choices, from hybrid yachts and solar power to efficient hull design.
But this is more than just a change with improving technology. It has been an industry-wide effort. Yacht crew have been instrumental in implementing more eco-friendly practices on board, from what cleaning products they use to the minimisation of single-use products. At the same time, marinas and shipyards are awarded for their clean waters and eco-conscious operations. Some yacht owners even use their yachts to conduct scientific research on their journeys around the globe. As a result, charterers of those yachts can participate and contribute to a better understanding of our environment. Some yachts are leading the fleet in this regard, and we suggest you call us for a chat about chartering an eco yacht.
It is a thrilling time to be in yachting for those who adore the sea. And really, isn’t that all of us? If luxury, to you, is a way to experience the best of this planet and its wildlife, then a yacht charter is calling your name and calling it loudly.
