Eight guests at forty metres is the most generous ratio in the charter fleet. These are yachts built to carry twelve, run at two thirds of that, so every cabin is a real room, the saloon never fills up and the crew to guest ratio moves in your favour. It is the configuration two families or four couples choose when the week is about space rather than headcount.
Six yachts hold it and the group splits neatly down the middle. Le Pietre, an Ada Yatcilik ketch working Greece, Miss Silver, a 1995 Alloy sloop out of the Balearics, and Radiance, a 37 metre Bayards, cover the sailing side. Indiana from Bilgin, RH Three from RMK Marine and Canoe Canoe, a 2025 Custom Line, cover motor. Five of the six run four cabins.
Weekly rates spread widely, from fifty five thousand five hundred euros for Le Pietre to two hundred thousand for Canoe Canoe, with the median near ninety two thousand. Build year and propulsion explain almost all of that gap rather than length. An advance provisioning allowance of roughly thirty percent covers fuel, food, berthing and drinks, and it runs lower on the sailing yachts.
Cruising grounds follow the same split. The sailing yachts work Greece, the eastern Mediterranean and the Balearics, where a forty metre rig and modest draft open anchorages that larger yachts reach late or not at all. RH Three and Canoe Canoe run the Bahamas and the Caribbean through the winter. Tell us your dates and which coast you have in mind.
