The Riviera coastline from the water at golden hour.

Experiences

Days worth planning around.

Every charter is built rather than booked off a menu. These are the shapes a day usually takes — the rest is ours to arrange.

A day boat anchored alone in a turquoise cove.

The classic

A full day, coast to cove

Out at ten while the water is still glass. A cove before the crowds find it, lunch somewhere you can only arrive at by sea, and the run home with the light going gold.

Swimmers in clear water beside a boat at anchor.

Half day

Four hours, and back for dinner

Enough for Villefranche and Cap Ferrat, a long swim and a drink on the water. The day that fits around everything else you had planned.

The wake of a boat running home along the coast at sunset.

Sunset

The two best hours

Out at six with the coast on one side and the sun going down the other. The sea flattens, the light goes, and everybody stops talking. Back alongside in the dark.

The wooded shore of the Lérins islands above clear shallow water.

The islands

Saint-Honorat and the Lérins

Twenty minutes off Cannes and a different century. Anchor off the monastery, swim in water the colour of a pool, and eat at La Guérite under the pines with the tender waiting.

Children snorkelling beside the bathing platform of a boat.

For families

The day the children remember

Sea pool rigged off the platform, snorkels in every size, and a captain who has done this with children aboard a thousand times. Nobody spends the afternoon counting heads.

Lunch laid on the teak aft table of a boat at anchor.

Long lunch

Somewhere only a boat can reach

A table held at Paloma, La Guérite or Club 55, and a tender to the beach. Or the whole thing laid on the aft deck instead, which is what most people choose the second time.

The Monaco waterfront and harbour seen from the sea.

Monaco

The Principality, from the water

Along the Basse Corniche and into Port Hercule past everything moored in it. Forty minutes from Beaulieu, and the only approach to Monaco that does not involve a tunnel.

The old port of Saint-Tropez approached from the water.

The long run

Saint-Tropez and back in a day

Two hours west at a proper pace, lunch at Club 55 or in the old port, and home along the Estérel with the red rock going pink. The one day that needs the fast boat.

A seabob under clear water beside the bathing platform.

In the water

Seabobs, and a whole afternoon in it

Two seabobs aboard, snorkels, paddleboards and a platform you can walk off. Some days nobody gets back on the boat between eleven and four, and that is the day working.

A quiet toast on the aft deck of a boat at dusk.

Celebrations

Birthdays, proposals, and the rest

Tell us the occasion and how much of it should stay a secret. "We are going to lunch in Villefranche" has covered a hundred boardings.

A day yacht underway along the coast, carrying guests to their destination.

Transit in style

Arrive by sea

Nice to Saint-Tropez without the coast road, Monaco without the tunnel. A transfer that is also the best hour of the trip — bags aboard, and you step ashore where the day actually starts.

A small group on the aft deck of a boat on a working afternoon.

Company days

The afternoon that ends the conference

Cannes and Nice fill with people in lanyards for a week at a time. Four hours on the water does more for a client than another dinner, and it can be invoiced properly.

Whatever you have in mind

That is the day we build.

Catering from a champagne tray to a full lunch spread. Transfers from your villa or the airport. A photographer aboard for the afternoon. Water toys, seabobs and a sea pool for the children. Tell us the shape of the day and it is ours to arrange.