Even with a "bare boat," one without a crew, there should be a local presence to help in difficulty.

Most charters are bare boat, but crews are available.

Bare boats, without crews, are suitable for seasoned sailors who are willing to do all the work.

Tortola is a base for crewed charter boats and bare boats.

I crossed the walk and leaned on the iron railing, looking out across the airy forest of bare boat masts.

In addition to the charter fee, budget for provisions for at least a week, the minimum rental time for bare boats.

The rig received ahead of its schedule; was deployed immediately upon delivery in March 2009; for a period of three years on firm bare boat charter.

But Virgin Gorda has a selection of bare boats - yachts rented without a crew - and an assortment of sea-oriented resorts.

There are 3 types of registration: Full Registration, Provisional Registration and Bare Boat Charter Registration.

Pembina decommissioned 26 January 1946 and was delivered to War Shipping Administration (WSA) representatives for turn over to the Japanese government under loan agreement (bare boat basis).

The Fort La Montee was built in the yards of the North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd., North Vancouver for the British Government under a bare boat charter.

The ship was acquired by the Navy from the War Shipping Administration under a bare boat charter on 13 September 1942 and was renamed Dauphin and designated AP-77 on 16 September.

The ship was surveyed and taken by Navy under a bare boat charter until the urgent need to resupply the Philippines as Japanese forces took Manila resulted in their being taken over by the United States Army.

In 1973 the Government of the USSR decreed formation of a special shipping corporation, separated from the regular state-owned marine fleet, that could use long-term bare boat charter scheme for purchasing new and used foreign-built vessels.

In Transocean Offshore Limited v. The Queen, 2005 DTC 5201, the non-resident taxpayer received a US$40 million lump-sum payment from a group of Canadian residents who had repudiated a bare boat charter agreement.

The yacht belonged to Paul and Sally Cook, who left Peterborough last year to run Atlantic Island Sailing, offering bare boat charters to experienced sailors, as well as skippered day and overnight trips to less able seamen and women.

- Jo Ann Vizzari, Mount Vernon, N.Y. A. The least costly approach is to rent a bare boat with skipper; a skipper (or captain) refers to a person hired on for a sailing, as opposed to a crew, even of one person permanently associated with the boat.

After conversion to accommodate 544 passengers by Thorn Tanahill and Sons in Glasgow, Scotland, she was chartered by the United States Navy, on a bare boat basis, and commissioned on 22 May 1944, with Lieutenant S. A. Davis, USNR, in command.

Within a day a very high level study of the situation concluded three old ex destroyers converted into fast commercial fruit carriers, now named Masaya, Matagalpa and Teapa, and recently taken over under bare boat charter by the War Department with intentions to use them as interisland transports would be suited to that supply requirement.