At eighty metres sail has effectively left the conversation. One yacht in this bracket carries a rig. Everything else is a displacement motor yacht in steel and aluminium, five decks tall, drawing four to five metres, engineered to hold a schedule across an ocean rather than around a forecast.
The machinery is what makes the volume usable. Zero speed stabilisers keep three thousand gross tons steady enough for a spa treatment at anchor, and the propulsion plants push these hulls at sixteen knots while the aft deck stays quiet. That is why Solandge, Sunrays, O’Pari and Excellence can carry a beach club, a cinema, a certified helideck and a tender fleet of five without any of it feeling squeezed in.
Weekly rates across these thirty four yachts run from four hundred and eighty thousand euros to one million eight hundred thousand, with the median close to eight hundred thousand and most hulls between six hundred thousand and one million one hundred and fifty thousand. Add an advance provisioning allowance near thirty percent and budget seriously for fuel, since a loaded eighty metre displacement hull burns well over a thousand litres an hour under way.
Range is total, so the season decides the map rather than the yacht. Summer runs Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily and the Cyclades, with Monaco and Porto Cervo booked early, then a December crossing to Saint Barths, Antigua and the Bahamas. La Datcha and a handful of others instead work higher latitudes and the Pacific. Send us your dates and we will tell you what is genuinely open.
