Nine guests on a thirty metre yacht is the point where a charter stops feeling like a boat trip and starts feeling like a house on the water. The hull is long enough for a proper aft deck, a flybridge and a tender that goes somewhere, yet short enough to berth in Portofino in August on a crew of five.
Five yachts carry this combination. Benetti’s Endless Summer and Sanlorenzo’s Azzurri are the volume choices, both four cabin boats with wide beam and shaded aft dining. Feadship’s Heavenly Daze, launched in nineteen seventy two and kept immaculate since, is the character option. Azimut’s Super runs five cabins across thirty metres, and Moonen’s Galena carries the smallest party on board with three cabins and a crew of four.
Weekly rates run from fifty eight thousand euros for Endless Summer to eighty three thousand for Azzurri, with the median close to seventy thousand. Add an advance provisioning allowance of roughly thirty percent covering fuel, food, berthing and drinks. August sits at the top of every range on this list, and a late June or mid September week regularly buys the same yacht for less with better harbours.
All five spend the season in the Mediterranean, and Heavenly Daze works Corsica, Greece, Italy and the South of France across a single summer. Thirty metres hops rather than crosses, which suits a week built around Saint Tropez and Porquerolles, or Capri and Amalfi from Naples. Tell us your week and how the nine of you want the cabins made up.
