Africa Charter Itinerary

Africa Itinerary

Africa Yacht Charter
The Cape is where two oceans meet and neither gives ground. It is a cruising ground of consequence ’ the Benguela current runs cold up the Atlantic side, the Agulhas runs warm down the Indian, and the weather can change character inside an hour.





What that produces is wildlife of a density found almost nowhere else: southern right whales calving in Walker Bay, great whites at Dyer Island, African penguins nesting among granite boulders, and fur seals in their tens of thousands. Table Mountain stands over the whole beginning of it.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Cape; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Cape Town & Hout Bay

Board at the V&A Waterfront with Table Mountain filling the sky behind. Sail to Robben Island, where Mandela spent eighteen of his twenty-seven years and the museum is guided by former prisoners. Then round to Hout Bay ’ a working fishing harbour under the mountains, seals on the slipway, and the day’s catch on the quay.
Day 2

Cape Point & Boulders Beach

South along the peninsula, past the Sentinel and the Twelve Apostles, to Cape Point, where the cliffs fall two hundred metres and the old lighthouse stands too high to be seen in fog ’ hence the second one below. Then Boulders, where a colony of African penguins nests among granite, entirely used to people and thoroughly endangered.
Day 3

Kalk Bay

A short hop into False Bay and Kalk Bay, which has resisted becoming smart while becoming interesting ’ antique shops, bookshops, a harbour where the fishing boats still land snoek and the seals wait for the offcuts. Fish and chips on the wall by the slipway. Walk the coast path, and swim in a tidal pool if the water permits.
Day 4

Gordon’s Bay

Cross False Bay to Gordon’s Bay, tucked under the Hottentots Holland mountains where the range comes down to the sea. Paddleboard the sheltered water, surf if there is anything running, and take the coastal road east ’ one of the great drives anywhere, cut into the cliff above the water.
Day 5

Hermanus

Hermanus is the best land-based whale watching in the world, and between June and November southern rights come into Walker Bay to calve, sometimes within thirty metres of the cliff path. Behind the town, the Hemel-en-Aarde valley grows pinot noir of real quality. Kayak the bay in the morning, taste in the afternoon.
Day 6

Dyer Island

Between Dyer Island and Geyser Rock runs a channel called Shark Alley, for reasons that become apparent. Sixty thousand Cape fur seals on one side; great whites patrolling between. Take the eco-tour, or cage dive if you have the stomach for it. Penguins and dolphins besides. Few marine encounters anywhere are as raw.
Day 7

Pringle Bay & Simon’s Town

A last day at Pringle Bay, quiet and windswept, with a walk over to Betty’s Bay and another penguin colony. Finish at Simon’s Town, the navy’s home since the eighteenth century, its Victorian main street looking out over the anchorage. Two oceans, seven days, and a coast that never once behaved predictably.

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