PRIVATE CHARTERS
Charter Kuru or Cherry Pie privately for your own group of relatives, friends or work colleagues.
GROUP SHARED CRUISES
If you don’t have the group numbers to hire the boat? No worries. Join up with a shared cruise and make new friends while enjoying our beautiful harbour.
SUNSET SHARED CRUISES
We require minimum numbers on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We depart at 4:30pm from Cullen Bay Marina.
Enjoy a relaxing harbour experience while sailing on our modern catamaran Kuru
- Relax, connect with friends, colleagues and family
- Great sailing on Kuru, a Seawind 1160R catamaran, or our catamaran Cherry Pie
- Discover snippets of Darwin history, wildlife, ecology or heritage and visit Cullen Bay Marina, take away a history strip map
- light bbq is available with free drinks.
Great features of Kuru
- very comfortable layout for our clients - lots of shade, cushioned seating
- 360-degree views, easy to talk to the skipper and crew
- we sail 95 % of the time
- electric toilet onboard
- surround sound stereo system
- after dark atmosphere enhanced by mood lights including underwater blue lights
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PRIVATE SAILING CHARTERS
Find below a copy of the Private Charter Booking Calendar with confirmed bookings. Private Charter time slots are (1) 4.30 to 7 pm Sunset Cruise, (2) 2 pm to 4 pm for Daytime Cruises, and (3) 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm for the Citylights cruise. When the calendar shows "busy" in the timeslot, a boat is booked for that date.
Shared cruises will not occur when a Private Charter is booked in the time slot on the calendar.
Private charter Kuru
Kuru Private Charter Pricing
Fri to Sun plus Public holidays - 2.5 hrs inc nibbles platter
- less than 24 people $1,900
- 25 - 32 $2000
- 33 - 42 $2300
Includes
- Kuru sound system
- eskies available byo ice
- cold water
- wine glasses
Booking requires a non-refundable deposit of $200, the balance on the day.
Monday to Thursday, Daytime or Citylights 2 hr byo everything cruise
- less than 30 $1800
- 31 to 40 $2100
Private Charter Cherry Pie
- 2.5 hr nibbles $1700 inc gst
- 2.0 hr BYO everything $1500 inc gst
Includes
- Bluetooth speaker
- eskies available byo ice
- cold water
- wine glasses
Booking requires a non-refundable deposit of $300, the balance on the day.
SHARED SAILING CRUISES
Shared cruise with Nibbles, BBQ Meal and free drinks
2.5 hr sunset cruise with BBQ meal, nibbles,
- Adults with free mid-strength beer and white wine $169.00 pp
- Adults with BYO drinks $159.00 pp
- 5 to 17 years $80
- Seniors pricing available
Shared cruise with nibbles and free drinks or BYO drinks
2.5 hour nibbles sunset cruise
- Adult with free Sauv Blanc wine and mid-strength beer $119 pp
- Adult BYO drinks $99 pp
- Children 5 to 17 $40 pp
- Groups of 10 or more shared cruise in the dry season (1 May to 30 Sept) $80 pp
- Note minimum numbers may apply for all cruises
- Seniors pricing available
Get some info about Top End and Darwin history
We love our Top end history. Hit "Read More" to continue to our history page.
Our experience includes
- learn about catamaran "sailing"
- our harbour sailing route is governed by the wind and tide
- all ticketed and group cruises include nibbles with options of BBQ meal and free bottled wine and mid strength beer - group discounts
- experience a marina lock in action
- easy walk to our vessels, disability friendly
- enjoy a marina lock experience
- choice of many shops, restaurants and bars in Cullen Bay
- plenty of free parking
- easy walk to our vessels
- disability friendly
- taxi and Darwin Bus services close by
- NT heritage, local wildlife, ecology - you will be able to ask our crew or check our web site material before you come sailing.
- take away a complimentary our Harbour Strip Map click here to learn more
- during the cruise find the strip map harbour features or ask our friendly crew to point them out
- opportunity to see wildlife, mainly bottlenose dolphins, the rarer Snubfin Dolphin can be seen occasionally similar to the elusive Dugong.
- we provide a great venue for social gatherings to connect with friends, colleagues and family while exploring Darwin Harbour
- sailing can be interesting for the whole family – kids can have a go at steering
- our Kuru catamaran layout has many comfort features
- shade, plenty of room with cushioned seating,
- electric toilet,
- after dark mood lights including blue lights shining into the water
- a modern stereo with sub woofer, Bluetooth or cable connected
- easy access to chat with our friendly skipper and crew
- 360 degree views to enable you to appreciate Fannie Bay and Darwin harbour
- silent power using the sails
- enjoy our platters included on every ticketed cruise.
- Nibbles Menu - Two Cheeses, kabana, dip, biscuits, sundried tomatoes, carrot and celery sticks, olives, dried fruit, nuts
- BBQ Meal menu - Asian inspired beef and chicken skewers, piece of local fish, chilled tiger prawns, potato salad, green salad, with free bottled bubbles, white wine and mid strength beer.
- drinking water provided.