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Luxury Charters of New Zealand

We have the best selection of luxury, crewed charter boats in New Zealand. Yacht charters are available for extended holidays or overnight by the hour. We can find the right charter boat to suit your requirements.


If you are planning a cruising holiday you'll find some tips on our Cruising Guides pages for Auckland & Hauraki Gulf, Bay of Islands, Coromandel & Bay of Plenty, Whangarei, Marlborough Sounds and Abel Tasman.

Each of our boats & yachts has something different to offer and it is our pleasure to find the yacht that best caters to your requirements. Whether you're holidaying with family or friends or entertaining business clients, Luxury Charters of New Zealand has a yacht to suit you.

Cruising Ground: Cruising Guide: Hauraki Gulf & Auckland

Kawau to Cape Colville - Auckland to Great Barrier Island

Auckland - the city of sails has more boats per head than any city in the world. Fortunately they are never all out at the same time, but on special occasions an truly alarming number can take to the water.

Perhaps the most appealing aspect of boating in Auckland is the way it offers an anchorage for any occasion. Whether its a picnic lunch in a fizz boat or an all day spinnaker run that takes your fancy, you'll end up somewhere where the birds sing, the fish splash and your anchor sticks. Blasting up the harbour under the resentful gaze of sweaty commuters choking in rush hour traffic is the perfect way to begin any Gulf cruise, and Westhaven's enormous marina is ideally placed for this. Its 1500 berths are right beside Auckland's Harbour Bridge and just 10 minutes from downtown. The Americas Cup base, ferry terminals and shipping wharves and finally Bean Rock light house slip by on the right and North Head - an old artillery battery and the entrance to the Harbour - passes on the left.

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