This is the smallest region in our catalogue and it needs stating plainly: four boats, two countries, and around two thousand nautical miles between them. Three are at Paihia in New Zealand's Bay of Islands and one is at Port Denarau in Fiji. All four are crewed. Despite the region's internal label, there is not a single boat in Australia.
So there is no Oceania itinerary, and inventing one would be dishonest. What there are is two separate, genuinely good charters that happen to share a label.
The Bay of Islands gives you 144 islands inside one sheltered bay, which means short hops, protected anchorages and a next stop almost always in sight. Cape Brett closes the eastern side with the Hole in the Rock at its tip, the water is clear enough for the diving to be worth it, and dolphins are resident. The season is December to March at its peak — southern summer — which means the European summer is winter there and the fleet is laid up.
Fiji is a different proposition and the one boat there sits in the country's charter hub. The cruising is the Mamanuca group, a compact cluster of coral and volcanic islets within 15 to 25 nautical miles of the marina, with the 80-mile Yasawa chain running north-west beyond it. The season is April to October, the dry half. The distinctive thing about Fiji is not the water but the protocol: anchoring off a village means going ashore to ask the chief's permission with a gift of kava, and that ritual — sevusevu — is how you are made welcome.
Both countries also need paperwork with lead times, and both are covered properly on their own pages. Rates here run €16,314 to €21,520, which reflects crewed charter a long way from anywhere.
