Thirty metres is where a sailing charter stops being a boat you help run and becomes a yacht with a crew. At roughly one hundred feet the rig is beyond what a guest can handle alone, so a captain, a mate, a chef and a stewardess come with it, and three to seven cabins sit below without feeling narrow.
Our thirty metre sailing fleet divides cleanly. Traditional and gulet style hulls such as Croatia, Andeo and Eleganza carry five to seven cabins, wide teak decks and shaded aft dining, built for anchoring rather than racing. At the other end sit Attimo from CMN, Aurelius 111 and the Jongert built Icarus, three and four cabin yachts with taller rigs, deeper keels and the manners to hold a course in a stiff afternoon breeze.
Rates follow that split. The traditional hulls charter from around eighteen thousand five hundred to twenty thousand euros a week, the least expensive crewed sailing on our books. The performance and classic yachts run from forty one thousand to forty nine thousand. Add an advance provisioning allowance of roughly thirty percent for fuel, food, berthing and drinks, which stretches a long way on a yacht that burns very little.
Draft and size open the coastline rather than the marina. Summer belongs to the Turkish coast, the Dodecanese and the Croatian channels, where a bay is rarely more than three hours away and the afternoon wind arrives on schedule. Tell us your week and the sailing you want, and we will send a shortlist.
