One hundred and seventy five thousand euros a week is the threshold where a charter yacht stops feeling like a large boat and starts feeling like a small ship. Thirty seven yachts sit in this band, quoted between one hundred and seventy five thousand and one hundred and ninety six thousand euros for a week, and the median length is forty seven metres.
Thirty one are motor yachts and five are sailing, the fleet running from thirty seven metres to sixty five. Benetti and Codecasa are the best represented yards, with Feadship, Heesen, Delta Marine and Perini Navi also present. The band tops out with the sixty five metre phinisi LAMIMA, which shows how much length traditional construction buys at this money. On the motor side expect a tri-deck of around forty eight metres, six cabins, a beach club and a crew of eleven to thirteen.
Rates cluster tightly, with the median at one hundred and eighty five thousand euros. Add an advance provisioning allowance of around thirty percent covering fuel, food, berthing and drinks. Because the band is narrow, the differences that matter are the deck layout, the tender and toy inventory and the crew, not the headline number.
Summers run the Western Mediterranean and the Greek islands, with enough range for Sicily, Malta and the Turkish coast. From December the motor yachts work Saint Barths and the Grenadines while the sailing yachts head for the Indian Ocean. Send us your dates and we will tell you what is still open.
