Poole Harbour Boat Hire: Explore 10,000 Acres of Open Water and Find Seals

Experience the beauty of Poole Harbour with Poole Boat Hire. Explore 10,000 acres of open water, visit islands, spot seals, and enjoy a picnic on the beach. No experience necessary!

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Experience the stunning Poole Harbour from the water with our self-drive boats.

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!

Sail around Brownsea Island or enjoy a trip to Wareham for a delightful lunch.

What's Included
  • All safety equipment, including life jackets
  • Full safety briefing and training
  • Fuel included
Additional Information

Greetings from Poole Boat Hire! We offer self-operated boats, and you don’t need any prior experience. Discover the vast 10,000-acre expanse of Poole Harbour’s open water. Enjoy serene isolation by sailing around the islands. Feel free to drop anchor and take a dip at our beautiful beaches. Don’t miss Brownsea Island, Shipstal Point, Bramble Bush Bay,…

Location
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Find us at the top of B Pontoon in front of the Marina Office
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Mylesg958
Sep 1, 2024
.... Excellent Boating Experience - Well organised, trained and made the day enjoyable and excellent. Would recommend, for a fun time out. Get away on the water to cruise, wine&dine, dive & swim.
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Jonandems
Jul 29, 2024
Fantastic consecutive sea fishing boat trips or charters - A Review for Chopsea Charters Sea fishing boat based at Poole Quay.. ..Skipper Malcolm provided an absoloutely fantastic time over 3 charters! Makes the best cups of tea for all and sets up a fantastic mix of fishing! Worth every single penny!!! His local knowledge (places to eat, hotels etc in Poole Quay) and his knowledge on areas to get us on the fish was outstanding! I noted he was also extremely patient with those on charter not so familier in the boat fishing hobby too! Great funny light hearted banter from Malcom. He is a peoples person! I really did have a trully fantastic time! Cant wait for my next trip! I cannot reccomend Malcolm and Chopsea anough! Coming from a seasoned angler.
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514jezh
Jun 22, 2024
Day out on the water - Booked a six hour trip, not knowing what we area we would cover in time. Surprise trip for the wife, we had a great time from initial briefing to end of the trip. Stopped and dropped anchor clise to recommended spot for picnic, trip round Brownsea island and up the river to Wareham. Boat was easy to handle and we were given good initial instruction and suggested routes, guidance device really good. Thank you Poole Boat Hire - Gareth
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Chloe
May 10, 2024
Great time - Had a great time the owner explained how the boat works and the rules of the sea very well the boat was comfy saw some great views and just enjoyed everything about it
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962anisz
Sep 21, 2023
Good way to spend an hour in the afternoon - Absolutely amazing, the captain has entertained us with history, knowledge and good humour. I will do this again when I visit with family. It's a shame the weather wasn't so great it would have been better if it was sunny
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Youngsmudger
Aug 30, 2023
Brilliant Boat Hire in Poole Harbour - This is the second time we've hired a boat with Poole Boat Hire and we will be back again in the future. The owners and staff are really friendly and gave us the chance to delay our start due to the typical Bank Holiday rain. Once aboard we were given a thorough safety briefing, shown how to use the controls and given recommendations on where to take the boat. The boats themselves are perfect for exploring beautiful Poole Harbour. They're easy to operate and there's plenty of room on board for 4 people. It's great to get a perspective of Brownsea, Poole Quay and Arne from the water. Looking forward to using Poole Boat Hire again in the future
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Tracysupra
Jul 2, 2023
Great afternoon on the water via Poole Boat Hire - We had a lovely afternoon on the waters in Poole which we booked through Poole Boat Hire. The boat was in pristine condition, the instructions were very clear and thorough and the owners were incredible friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. We were able to navigate around all the small islands including Brownsea. We even followed a seal for a while. The boat was easy to drive and it was just great fun. We spent 3 hours out on the boat and would have happily stayed longer. We will definitely be hiring through Poole Boat Hire again.
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Stellae988
Jun 19, 2023
Highly recommended! Faultless service! Fantastic day! - My Husband booked a boat for his birthday and we weren't disappointed! Gareth was welcoming and friendly as soon as we met, he explained everything to us, including safety info and gave us a map of the harbour. He explained where we were to avoid due to the tide and where we could get refreshments etc. Life jackets are provided and there is a cool box on board for drinks and in our case, a birthday cake for the birthday boy lol. We had the boat for 6 hours at a very reasonable price, we ensured that we remained within the red and green buoys at all times as instructed and had a fantastic time. The boat was easy to drive and had a depth bleeper fitted which let us know if we were getting near shallow waters, the navigation system was also very easy to use. We wanted to get some chips from the quay for lunch, we called Gareth to ask how we do this and he gave us a number for the quay boat office. We called them and they let us moor up for 20 minutes for free! (very kind of them) - I think it's about £7.50 per hour usually. We got some chips, jumped back on the boat and drove back behind Brownsea Island where we anchored at Goats horn - so peaceful and beautiful! The boats aren't to go outside of the harbour (past the chain ferry) but this didn't matter, there is plenty to see within the harbour, its all stunning! We enjoyed every single minute of it and we will be recommending this service to everyone we speak to, it's incredible! Thank you Gareth, you are a star, we will be hiring a boat from you again in the future! We've already told our friends about it and they want to come along too! **Gareth's boat hire is on pontoon B on Cobbs quay**
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Needlotsmoreholidays
Jun 15, 2023
Great fun and highly recommended - Really enjoyed our trip around Poole Harbour. We booked for 3 hours but would happily have stayed out longer and will probably book for 6 hours when we're back again and go a different route. Really nice people running the hire - make sure you pay attention to their briefing before hand as it's easy to go the wrong way and there's a few bits that are important to understand. We'll definitely be back and highly recommend Poole Boat Hire.
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675laurencec
Jun 4, 2023
Good day out - Too be fair we had a decent day. Problem was the lady who sat us down for 30 minutes running through the safety etc. By time she finished we didnt want to go out. We were more worried about crashing the boat...smashing the propellor and having additional costs....and what we were probably not best off doing for the day. Its a shame because we would have liked to have stopped and swimmed or gone on land for 30 mins or so as we had a dog with us. The lady said if we anchored up the liklihood was that we could be stranded for 6 hours due to the tide and that when we returned the water and harbour would look totally different. It didnt. Infact The owner did interupt as he was pretty awesome and assured us the water level wouldnt change over the 3 hours we were to have the boat. I guess some more simple instructions would be good as its all pretty straight forward but we left the harbour feeling like we would be lucky to make it back. We would visit again...but next time do all the things we now know we could of and should of as they would have been easy. We paid 180 quid for 3 hours. There was 2 adults a teenager and dog. If we had known what we could have done and not been made scared of our adventure we would have booked a few hours more and done all the things we had hoped for. All said and done still a great time. Thank you.
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