Nine guests at forty metres buys privacy rather than square metres. Most of these yachts are laid out for ten in five cabins, so the ninth and tenth berths absorb the group easily and one cabin usually ends up as a study, a nursery or a place for the luggage. A crew of seven or eight runs the week, and at dinner the aft deck table seats everyone at once.
Nine yachts carry this combination. Benetti has two in Diane and Liv Love, alongside Feadship’s Sport, Heesen’s Jems, CRN’s Hana and Baglietto’s Perla Bianca. Perla Bianca and Liv Love both carry a pool and a beach club, which is unusual at this length. Two outliers widen the choice, the Sunreef catamaran Graya and the Alloy Yachts sailing yacht Genevieve, both four cabin boats that charter for considerably less.
Weekly rates run from seventy five thousand euros to two hundred and thirty five thousand, with the median close to one hundred and sixty thousand and most of the fleet between one hundred and twenty and two hundred and ten thousand. An advance provisioning allowance of around thirty percent covers fuel, food, berthing and drinks.
Forty metres goes almost anywhere a group of nine would want to be. The Riviera and the Balearics work as day hops, Naples puts Capri, Amalfi and the Aeolian islands within a week, and Greek harbours rarely ask more than a morning between stops. King Baby and Genevieve cross for the Caribbean each winter. Tell us your dates and how you want the cabins made up.
