luxury yachts

Luxury Yacht

The term luxury yacht refers to a very expensive privately owned yacht which is professionally crewed. Also known as a super-yacht or a mega-yacht, a luxury yacht may be either a sailing or motor yacht.

A luxury yacht tender

used to service and to provide support and entertainment to a private or charter luxury yacht. Known commonly as the 'yacht's tender' a luxury yacht tender will often be a rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB) which features cushioned inflatable rubber inner tubes around its rigid (usually fiberglass) hull to protect the luxury yacht when in close contact.

Other types of luxury yacht tender include inflatable boats, which are almost totally synthetic rubber or plastic, and also rigid inflatable boats (RIB's) which are usually constructed from materials like fiber glass, wood, steel or aluminium with inflatable sythetic rubber or plastic sponsons. Tenders are motor powered by outboard motor engines or inboard engines burning either petrol/gasoline or diesel. They use either propellers or more recently impellers as utilized by water jet boats.