Perini Navi did not build ordinary sailing yachts, and GITANA, launched in 1989 and refitted as recently as 2015, carries that pedigree in her steel hull and her handling. This is a 36-metre sailing yacht built by a yard that defined what a modern sailing superyacht could be, and three decades on she still sails the way Perini Navi intended: quietly capable, comfortable under way, and entirely unbothered by weather that would send a lesser boat looking for shelter.
Steel construction is the detail worth noting. Where most charter sailing yachts of this size are built in composite, GITANA’s hull gives her the kind of structural mass and long-passage confidence that steel-built Perini Navi yachts are known for, a boat that feels planted rather than skittish when the Meltemi picks up across the Aegean. Twin MTU engines back up the sail plan for motoring days, and a three thousand nautical mile range means she is never tied to a short itinerary.
Her cabin count, three doubles, sleeping up to nine guests, is intentionally intimate. This is not a boat built to maximise berths; it is a boat built for a single family or a close group of friends who want a genuine sailing charter rather than a motor yacht with sails for effect. Below deck, mahogany joinery and portholes rather than picture windows keep the classic-yacht character intact, while a salon that converts to a cinema space gives the layout a flexibility her 1989 build year would not suggest.
On deck, GITANA rewards guests who want to be part of the sail rather than passengers to it. Her wheelhouse, full instrumentation, twin helm chairs, chart table, sits ahead of an aft cockpit designed for the after-sail unwind: shaded seating, an alfresco dining table, and direct access to a water toy stable that includes a jet-ski and dive tender for exploring beyond the anchorage. A crew of six manages the sail handling and service in equal measure.
She charters out of Greece, flagged there and provisioned for the Aegean’s islands and anchorages, a cruising ground built for exactly the kind of unhurried, wind-driven week GITANA is designed to deliver. For charter guests who have done the motor-yacht circuit and want something with more soul, a boat where the passage itself is part of the experience, not a delay before the destination, GITANA offers a genuinely different kind of week on the water.
She is available from fifty seven thousand euros per week, six crew, nine guests across three staterooms. A classic Perini Navi hull, still sailing, still steel, still exactly what she was built to be, modernised just enough, and not one degree more than that.
What that means in practice is a charter week with a different rhythm to a motor yacht’s. Mornings under sail rather than at speed, a wheelhouse crew who read wind and current rather than just a chartplotter, and an aft cockpit that becomes the centre of the day once the anchor is down. GITANA suits guests who have chartered before and are looking for something with more texture, a boat whose age is a credential, not a compromise, and whose steel hull has already proven itself across three decades of Mediterranean seasons.
