hi

im thinking to buy a tour boat , 13 m x 5.4 m with 30-40 pax capacity for sydney harbour cruise.

does anyone have any experience in charter boat business / operating a tour boat business. happy to share your thoughts and experience in this.

alternatively im also open to coorperation , me supply the boat, 3rd party manage the rental and operation and share the profit.

my background is travel consultant, i can help with some marketing to tourist group client from overseas. its the operating the boat, day to day operation of the boat im not familiar.

any advise/comment is appreciated.

thank you

Hope you have lots of money ..... no really I meant LOTS of money.

As Wise Sailor once said to me B.O.A.T.
B= bring
O= on
A=Another
T=Thousand
and you will easily spend that in the first week a Thousand is chicken feed
Owning a BOAT is like filling a bucket with water but it has holes in it so you have to keep filling the bucket till you don't own it

Ali789 said..


does anyone have any experience in charter boat business / operating a tour boat business. happy to share your thoughts and experience in this.

any advise/comment is appreciated.

thank you

Yes, I owned and operated a very nice charter yacht (42 ft ex racing yacht ) out of Airlie Beach, Cairns and Mooloolaba.

I found it to be a most efficient way of defraying money, wasting time and sending oneself crazy.

DAMA said..
Will it have a mast and a sail?

No it does notnhave mast and sail . Its more like houseboat style.

I'm not sure how much experience you have in the industry but I would say it would take a lot of guts to try to get a new tourist boat operating in a place like Sydney harbour.

Really if you have a dream and disire to start some business venture like that you need to crack a booming town that has the tourists but not the established business.

The tour company's on Sydney harbour have years of charter experience under there belts. Unless you can find neich in the market or something completely different to what's already exisiting I personally wouldn't even waste my time thinking about it.