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Charter yachts from Dubai Marina routinely run about four kilometres offshore to the World Islands, which is forty to forty-five minutes at cruising speed. The practical limit is not the boat's range but the charter length you have booked and the vessel's licensed operating area — most Dubai charter licences cover coastal waters rather than open sea.
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Not fuel. A 48ft motor yacht carries far more range than any day charter uses. Three things limit it instead: the hours you have booked, the vessel's licensed operating area, and the sea state on the day.
Charter time runs berth to berth, so every kilometre offshore costs you twice. At a typical 10 knots cruising, forty minutes out is about seven kilometres — and eighty minutes of a four-hour charter gone before anything happens.
Most Dubai charter licences are for coastal operation rather than open-sea passage. That is a legal boundary rather than a capability one, and it is the reason a charter cannot simply be pointed at Iran because someone asks.
These are round trips from a Dubai Marina berth at normal cruising speed, with time left over for the reason you went.
The World Islands. Four kilometres is not far in absolute terms but it is far enough that the coast goes quiet, and the channels between the islands are sheltered enough to anchor and swim in. It is the standard answer to "can we go somewhere with nobody else".
Beyond that, the honest answer is fishing. Offshore fishing charters work wrecks and drop-offs fifteen to forty kilometres out, on four to eight hour trips with an early start. That is a different kind of day and a different kind of boat setup — the range exists, but not as a sightseeing product.
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