Sailing yachtSail Maldives.
The Charter Desk arranges bareboat, skippered and crewed yacht charters across the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, with live availability and a real person on the other end of every enquiry.
Maldives · Crewed
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Motor yachtWhat does the hostess do?
Plans meals (from your preferences), provisions ashore with the captain, cooks 1-2 meals/day, makes beds, services cabins, cleans the saloon. Bigger boats have dedicated chef + separate hostess.
Can we have specific food preferences?
Yes — vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, allergies, kid-friendly: tell us when you book. Last-minute requests are easy too.
How much do we tip?
5-15% of charter fee, end of week, in cash. The captain typically distributes.
Can we drink the bar dry?
Within reason. Standard wine + beer comes with the trip; for top-shelf gin or specific Burgundy, factor it into the APA.
Is the crew always around?
They give you privacy. Captain on watch at the helm, hostess in the galley or her cabin. You get the cockpit and deck to yourselves outside of meals.
Maldives · Crewed.
The Maldives isn't a place you sail between harbours. It's a chain of coral atolls scattered across the Indian Ocean, and the only sensible way to see more than one is by boat. From the deck you swap the single-island resort life for a moving base camp: anchor off an uninhabited sandbank at lunch, dive a channel on the afternoon current, tie up near a fishing village at dusk. The water is the draw — visibility often runs 20-30m, and the reef starts a few metres from where you drop the hook. This suits divers, snorkellers, and anyone who'd rather wake up somewhere new than fly home from the same beach they arrived on.
Living aboard — the skipper does the work
A crewed charter is the full sailing holiday with none of the workload: a professional skipper (and on larger yachts a hostess and chef) handles the sailing, the cooking and the logistics while you relax.
It suits families, groups and anyone who wants to wake up in a new bay each morning without lifting a winch — multi-day, sleeping aboard, the itinerary shaped around you.