When a charter is the right call
If the yacht is the location — talent on deck, a lifestyle scene, a party — a charter can be the picture vessel. What it usually cannot do is film itself from the outside, at speed, with a stable horizon.
Where a charter costs you
Rigging. A camera clamped to a rail or a gimbal held on a moving deck is not a stabilized crane. The Basilisk carries an Ultraarm crane with a Motocrane stabilized head built into the vessel.
Crew. Charter crews are hospitality crews. A production vessel runs a captain, a camera arm operator and a DIT/VTR technician who work camera days as their job.
Monitoring. Wireless video offshore and a shaded place to judge color rarely exist on a charter. The Basilisk carries Wave Central wireless video and an air-conditioned DIT dark room.
Weather. Ask what happens when the day is called. Under the Flat Water Guarantee, an unshootable sea state reschedules at no additional day rate.
The usual answer: both
Most productions shooting a yacht book the yacht as the picture vessel and a camera boat to film it. The Basilisk can also run drone and underwater units from the same hull, so one booking covers the outside angles.