The private yacht charter division of WAYPOINT & CO. We match the format, vessel and crew to the water you want to cruise, then arrange each journey through trusted certified operators.
WAYPOINT SEA coordinates private yacht charter — day charter and term charter — across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. We begin with the water, the season and the way you actually want to spend the days, whether that is sailing hard, anchoring early, diving, fishing, or eating extremely well within sight of a beach. Only then does vessel type make sense: sail or motor, crewed or skippered, catamaran or monohull, a boat for a week or a base for a month.
Vessels are sourced through established charter operators and brokers who hold the survey, insurance and crewing appropriate to the ground. Where the charter sits inside a broader private journey, the same WAYPOINT contact coordinates it with AIR, STAY and EXPERIENCE, so the flights, the boat and the nights ashore work to one plan.
One day on the water, planned to the hour. A harbour lunch, a reef run, a birthday, a client day, a wedding party or simply a swim somewhere you cannot drive to. The vessel leaves and returns the same day, so the work sits in timing, catering, tenders and where you actually stop.
Best for celebrations, corporate days, families and first-time charterers.
The yacht is yours for a period — commonly a week or more — with crew, an itinerary drawn with the captain and the freedom to change it when the wind does. Overnight aboard, provisioning to your taste, and a cruising ground chosen for the season rather than the brochure.
Best for a full Whitsundays week, the Kimberley in the dry, or a South Pacific island run.
Fast, open and uncomplicated: a well-kept sports cruiser or sailing yacht for a harbour day, an island lunch or an afternoon of swimming. Easy to move, easy to anchor, and the simplest way to get a group onto the water without ceremony.
Commonly suits private day groups of up to 12.
Range, shade and a proper interior. Suited to longer days, families who want a base for the week, and events where guests need somewhere to sit down, eat properly and get out of the sun.
Selected commercially certified motor yachts may host day groups of up to roughly 35.
Full crew, tenders, toys and a level of service that changes what a day on the water is. Chartered for milestone occasions, private groups and events where the vessel is the venue as much as the transport.
Selected large commercially certified superyachts may host 80 or more for day events.
Built for range, self-sufficiency and remote water. The Kimberley, the far north and long passages where tenders, helicopters, fuel and crew experience matter more than gloss. The itinerary follows tide and weather, not a schedule.
Guest numbers are usually modest relative to size, because range and equipment take the space.
Those figures are guides to what the categories can do, not a promise that every vessel in them does. Day and overnight capacities vary considerably with a vessel's certification, its interior configuration and the area it is licensed to operate in — overnight berths are almost always far fewer than day guests. We confirm the numbers vessel by vessel before anything is planned around them.
Once the boat is right, the work moves to the hours on it — what is served, who is driving the tender, where the group swims and what has to be ready before anyone steps aboard. It is arranged with the captain and crew in advance, then it simply happens.
20°16′S 148°43′E
Trade winds Apr–Oct · protected passages
The most forgiving cruising ground in Australia: short hops, sheltered anchorages and reef within reach. Suited to families and first charters, and still capable of a serious week under sail.
33°51′S 151°12′E
Harbour day charter · coastal overnight
A working harbour that rewards a good skipper. Day boat, motor yacht or superyacht depending on the party, with pickup at Circular Quay, Barangaroo or Rose Bay subject to wharf booking and vessel. Coastal north to Pittwater and the Hawkesbury when there is time to keep going.
15°47′S 124°35′E
Spring tides to 11m · May–Sep window
Expedition country. Movement is governed by tide and the season is short. Vessels here need range, tenders, and crew who have done it before — the itinerary follows the water, not the calendar.
17°37′S 177°26′E
Trade season May–Oct · island clearance
Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Tonga. Longer passages, customs and provisioning to plan for, and anchorages that make the planning look trivial afterwards.
38°00′S 145°00′E
Seasonal · state-by-state
Tasmania's east coast, the Great Sandy Strait, Port Stephens, the Gippsland Lakes and South Australia's gulfs. Quiet water, strong produce and far fewer boats.
Latitude on request
Ice class and remote support
Remote, long-range and support-heavy work — where the vessel is a base of operations. Planned with the operator well in advance, with contingency built into every leg.
The right vessel begins with the right operator.
We work from the destination, the group, the style of charter, the duration and the operating requirements of the water you want to be on. The boat follows from that, and so does the crew standing behind it.
Destination and cruising area, group and guest numbers, charter style, duration and dates.
We shortlist suitable vessels and the operators certified to run them in that area, at that time of year.
Vessel, crew, inclusions, cruising area, capacity, timing and price are confirmed in writing.
Tell us the water, the window and the people. We will tell you honestly whether it works, and what would work better.
