Superyacht tender · GCC · Indian Ocean
A chase boat or a resort transfer — centre console or power cat — specified in Dubai for a yacht in Mina Rashid, Dubai Harbour, the Maldives, Seychelles or Mauritius. Not a RIB hire. Not a limousine tender.
Before the shortlist
Dubai’s tender market is mostly 6–11 m limousines and RIBs that crane into a garage. This desk does not build those. It writes the boat that runs beside the yacht, or the boat that moves guests across a lagoon.
If it must fit a davit, this is the wrong page. If it berths at Dubai Harbour, Mina Rashid or a resort pontoon and meets the yacht, keep reading.
Lagoon transfer wants a cat: no roll at anchor, shallow draft. A fishing programme off the mothership wants a Contender. An owner who drives wants a Scout.
GCC use is short, hot, marina-to-beach. Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius need range, a head, and a hull that does not slam between islands.
Crew-driven dayboat: EdgeWater 248 or 262. Owner-driven: Scout 315. Toy and dive deck: Front Runner 35. Overnight between atolls: World Cat 325DC.
The boats that fit the brief
EdgeWater is the only house here whose factory still prints the word tender — on the 15–18 ft boats. The GCC book starts one size up. Same idea: unsinkable, self-bailing, easy for crew.
Short tender
Closest boat in the book to a real tender. Dual console, unsinkable, beach-friendly. Crew boat off a 40–60 m yacht.
248CX
Short tender
Same job, more deck. Dive door and walk-through bow for a beach landing in the Gulf or a lagoon.
262CX
Day chase
When the tender also fishes. Centre console, foam-filled, still a dayboat.
250CC
Day chase
Family off the yacht, or a longer Gulf run. Still not an overnight programme.
285CC
Offshore chase
Range and a cabin. The step up when the yacht anchors off and the tender has to come back in a sea.
325CC
Resort transfer
Malé to a villa, or a 100-mile fish. Cabin, head, fuel for the Indian Ocean. A chase boat with a bed.
370CC
Lagoon tender
Two hulls, almost no roll at anchor, shallow enough for a sand spit. The atoll boat.
280CC-X
Resort tender
Guests, not a crew RIB. Dual console, stable in a cross-chop between islands, a head on board.
325DC
Lagoon tender
Same platform, fishing layout. Dive bottles, a casting deck, and a hull that waits without rolling.
325CC
Shadow boat
When the tender is almost a second yacht. Toy deck, range, a programme between the outer atolls.
400CC-X
Owner’s chase
The owner drives. Finish matches the yacht. Does not fit a garage. Two hulls of this model are already held for the GCC.
315 LXF
Owner’s chase
Longer owner’s boat. Day programme off the mothership, marina presence in Dubai Harbour.
425 LXF
Shadow boat
Runs ahead of the yacht. Shallow, stable, toy deck. Too wide to crane aboard. Right size to berth beside her.
35 Cat
Shadow boat
More deck and fuel than the 35. Dive compressor, Seabobs, a crew that lives on the chase boat for the week.
37 Cat
Fishing chase
Yachting already files the smaller Contender as a fishing tender. This is that job: fast, stepped, a deck that works. Not a guest shuttle.
39ST
Fishing chase
Support sportfisherman. The yacht stays on the hook; this boat runs the hundred miles. Wrong boat if the brief is a beach club.
44STNot on this page
Williams, Castoldi, Pascoe and Falcon build the 6–11 m boat that lives in the garage. This desk will not pretend a 315 or a 35 Cat is that boat. Adrenaline Reapers and the Scout 670 LXS stay off the list: one is a race cat, the other is the yacht.
Tell the desk the yacht’s length, where she sits, and whether the boat is for guests, crew or fish. The reply is one hull, not a catalogue.
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