Nine guests at fifty metres is a deliberate choice rather than a compromise. Every yacht in this group runs five cabins, so nine people spread across accommodation built for ten, and one berth stays empty. A twin becomes a children’s room or a dressing room, the lower deck lobby stays quiet, and a crew of ten to thirteen looks after nine rather than twelve.
Eleven yachts sit in this bracket and the range of them is unusual. Three are sailing yachts, including the Alloy Yachts pair Drumbeat and Favourite Child and Fitzroy’s Ohana. Malahne is a 1937 Camper and Nicholsons. Big Fish is an explorer built to cross oceans. Against those sit Feadship, Amels, Rossinavi, Sanlorenzo and Sunseeker hulls with beach clubs, gyms and, on Parillion, a pool.
Weekly rates run from one hundred and twenty five thousand euros to three hundred thousand, with the median close to two hundred and ten thousand and most of the fleet between one hundred and fifty five and two hundred and forty thousand. An advance provisioning allowance of roughly thirty percent covers fuel, food, berthing and drinks. Sailing hulls sit at the lower end because they burn less.
Nine guests travel light, which opens the itinerary. Fifty metres still berths in Bonifacio, Portofino and Hydra in August. From Antibes a week covers Corsica and Sardinia, and Athens reaches the Cyclades without a night passage. Spirit, Acta and Big Fish also work the Caribbean and Pacific through the winter. Send us your dates and we will show you what is free.
