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Charleston Boat Tours

Charleston Boat Tours · Updated 2026-10-20

Person seen from behind at the helm of a center-console boat, hands on the wheel, looking toward the Charleston skyline
A person stands at the helm of a center-console boat, seen from behind, both hands on the wheel, looking across the harbor toward the Charleston skyline.

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Charleston boat tours and private charters

You came for captained boat tours with a captain aboard, on Charleston Harbor and the nearby coastal waterways.

You want a captain on the boat for a tour or a private charter.

A bareboat rental, a jet ski, a freight run, offshore fishing past state waters, or a water taxi is a different job, and this form stops.

Charleston Boat Tours receives a fitting request and replies by email.

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Do you want a captained boat tour or private charter, with a captain on board?
Does all of this describe your trip: a captain is aboard, the water is Charleston Harbor, the Wando or Cooper, Shem Creek, or a nearby barrier island in coastal South Carolina, and it is not a bareboat rental, jet ski, freight run, offshore fishing trip past state waters, or water taxi, and it is not in North Carolina, Georgia, Savannah, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, or Georgetown?

Charleston Boat Tours receives this request at requests@charlestonboattours.xyz and replies by email. The privacy page says how that request is kept. Privacy

Sending this request does not mean a company will call you.

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Who this is for

You already know you want time on the water with a captain. That might be a shared sightseeing ride or a private charter for a family, an event, or a work group. The pages under Counties quote the document that makes each waterway its own page.

What this form will not take

Bareboat rentals with no captain, jet ski rentals, commercial freight transfers, deep-sea offshore fishing past state waters, and water-taxi commuter passes are outside this job. Answer no on the form and the request stops.

A fare is not printed here. None of the quotations on the live pages state a tour price.

If the trip is a historic ride on the harbor, start with the Charleston Harbor boat tour.

We did not measure the tide, the seats still open, or a fare.