United States

The only place with a real choice of boats for one day

$ / day

120 – 7900

Season: {from} – {to}

January – December

Best for

Skippered day charter, Crewed yacht

Miami and Fort Lauderdale dominate, with Chicago, Boston and Charleston behind them. Close to a thousand boats here will take you out for a day with a captain aboard — five times what the best Mediterranean option offers.

Why it works for a first time

Everywhere else on this list, a single day on the water means choosing from a hundred boats or fewer. Here it means choosing from a thousand, in cities people are already visiting for other reasons, in any month of the year. What you will not find is a sailing week island to island — that fleet is small, and it lives in the Mediterranean.