Beach Landing Tenders for Sale — Builders & Prices

A beach lander (also called a beach landing boat or beach landing craft) is a tender designed to drive its bow onto a beach, drop a ramp or door, and let guests step off onto dry sand. It needs three features together: a bow ramp or door, shallow draft (typically 0.4 to 0.6m at the propulsion), and a forward-trim hull that can plant on sand without slamming. The mainstream is 10 to 12 metres.

It earns its keep on Mediterranean charter with frequent beach lunches, Caribbean and Bahamas anchorage-to-anchorage cruising, and expedition programmes where the beach is the only landing point. It is the wrong second tender for a yacht that mostly visits commercial ports.

9 to 10.5m semi-custom 600,000 to 1,400,000 EUR; 10.5 to 12.5m semi-custom or custom 1,400,000 to 2,800,000 EUR; 12.5 to 14m custom 2,800,000 to 5,500,000 EUR, the largest often with a limousine-grade interior aft of the ramp deck.

Twin waterjet is dominant, zero exposed underwater geometry, instant reverse, and it dries out cleanly, with surface-piercing drives or twin outboards on smaller hulls. A conventional shaft-drive boat is not a beach lander, and sterndrives take the grounding load so are rarely the right answer.

A concentrated segment: Wajer, Ribco and Sacs for RIB-format beach landers, Castoldi Jet, Hodgdon, Pascoe International, Vanquish, Goldfish, and Iguana Yachts for the specialist amphibious format. For most programmes a conventional waterjet beach lander is the right answer.