A beach club on a forty metre yacht transforms the relationship between boat and sea. The transom folds down or hinges open to create a platform at water level where the crew sets up sun loungers, launches paddleboards and tenders, and serves drinks within arm’s reach of the water. At forty metres, the beach club is proportionally generous, typically running the full beam of the yacht, and the proximity to the waterline gives the sense of being on the sea rather than above it.
Thirty three charter yachts in this band carry a beach club. They range from sportier hulls like Fabulous Character and Boa Vida, with open transoms designed around watersports, to more traditional displacement yachts like Optimism and Viking III, where the beach club sits behind a fold down bulwark. Most take ten to twelve guests in four or five cabins, with crews of nine to eleven.
Weekly rates start at fifty seven thousand five hundred euros for the smaller hulls and run to three hundred thousand for the newest and best equipped. The median sits at one hundred and eighty thousand euros. Provisioning adds roughly thirty percent for fuel, food, berthing and drinks. The beach club adds particular value in summer, when mooring stern to a harbour wall means stepping ashore at deck level.
The Mediterranean dominates summer itineraries, with the South of France, Sardinia and the Balearics the most popular starting points. The shallow anchorages of the Exumas and the Grenadines make the beach club a natural feature for Caribbean winters. Send us your dates.
