Day Boats for Charter in Saint-Tropez

A day boat charter here runs on a single stretch of daylight rather than a full itinerary handover. Guests board mid-morning at Port de Saint-Tropez, the boat clears the harbour within minutes, and the captain shapes the afternoon around where the anchor field is thinning out rather than a fixed route. The category holds 33 boats - day-boat and sport-yacht styles for the most part - starting from €1700, open sun deck layouts built for swimming stops and a short hop to lunch, not for sleeping aboard.

The Gulf anchor field south of town is the usual base: 5 to 12 metres of water, close enough to tender ashore to Quai Jean Jaurès for the market or a coffee without breaking the day up. Corporate groups use this exact setup for a client lunch - a boat anchored with the village in view, catering brought aboard instead of a restaurant table, open water standing in for a private room. The same footprint suits a party group running music and swimming straight off the Nouveau Port, or a couple who would rather have a quiet stretch of Baie de Briande to themselves for a few hours.

Further along the coast, the same boats reach Cap Taillat or the offshore approach to Pampelonne, tendering in toward the beach clubs - Club 55, Nikki Beach - from around 500 metres out, with a table booked in advance if that stop is part of the plan. In July and August the Gulf fills by mid-morning, so boats leaving before 09:00 still find room to anchor; June, September and October thin the crowd out considerably and leave Baie de Briande and Cap Taillat far easier to sit in without other boats close by.