Saint-Tropez
The gulf, in the summer of 2027.
Forty minutes of traffic around the bay, or twelve minutes across it.
Why here too
The most congested twelve kilometres of coast in Europe.
In August, the road between Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Tropez takes longer than the flight that brought you to Nice. The water between them is empty, flat and takes a quarter of an hour. The boats are already there, tied up, because their owners are working one charter a day instead of four.
Saint-Tropez is the second market, not the first, for one honest reason: the season is three months long and it starts in June. Miami runs through our winter. Opening Miami first pays for opening here properly.
The water
From the gulf to the islands.
Saint-Tropez
The old port, and the anchorages just outside it.
Sainte-Maxime
Fifteen minutes across, against forty by road in August.
Port Grimaud
The canals, and the fastest way out of them.
Pampelonne
The beach clubs, reached from the water instead of the lane.
Cannes
The bay, the festivals, and the traffic that comes with them.
Îles de Lérins
Sainte-Marguerite and Saint-Honorat, twenty minutes offshore.
Monaco
A passage along the coast rather than the corniche.
Nice
The airport, and the coast road that never moves.
How it works in France
Private charter, on demand. Never a scheduled line.
French law separates two very different trades. Carrying the public on a published route at published times is a regulated public transport service, with its own authorisation, and it is not what we do. Putting a boat and its licensed captain at the private disposal of one customer, for one crossing that the customer asked for, is charter, and that is exactly what GlideBlue is.
That distinction shapes the product. There is no timetable, no route published in advance, no seat sold separately to two strangers. Each crossing exists because one customer asked for it, and the boat is theirs for it.
Every captain on the French side holds the professional qualification and the commercial registration their activity requires, and their own insurance. We check the papers before the first request and again at each expiry.
December 14, 2026
Be there on day one.
Leave your address: you will know before anyone else when the first crossings open, and professionals who sign up now are the first ones called.
One address, nothing else. No marketing, and you can leave in one click.