Tell me about the trip. I’ll send back three or four yachts genuinely worth your attention — with the reason each one made the list, and the honest trade-off.
The difference is almost never in the listing. Two yachts can look identical online and give you completely different weeks.
I spent seven years aboard, not in an office. That is the difference between reading a spec sheet and knowing what a week on that boat feels like.
Build my shortlistDates, destination, how many guests, rough budget, and what would make the week exceptional. One conversation. No charge.
Not just availability and specs. Crew, layout, operating style, tender setup, and fit for the waters you actually want.
Three or four yachts worth your attention — each with a clear reason it made the list and an honest note on the trade-off.
Itinerary, guest preferences, activities, restaurants, transfers. The details that turn a booking into a week people remember.
Charter well in season and everything is easier — weather, availability, price, the water itself. Charter against it and no boat saves the week.
Two things worth knowing. The Mediterranean dips in August — the Meltemi is at its strongest and the coast is at its busiest, so late June or September usually gives you a better week for less. And the Caribbean shoulder in May is the most underrated window in charter: the weather still holds, the crowds have gone, and the rates drop.
Turquoise shallows, secluded anchorages and sandbars. Draft, tender setup and local knowledge shape everything here.
The best weeks balance time aboard with beach clubs, diving and quiet bays you can still have to yourself.
Greece, Croatia, Spain and the Balearics each call for a different style of charter, and a different kind of boat.
Coastal towns, protected anchorages, lobster rolls and long summer evenings. A quieter kind of yachting.
Seven years inside a world most people only see from the dock. Charters, crossings, shipyard periods, overnight tender runs, changing weather, and long days when every detail had to work.
So I don’t look at length, cabins and photographs. I look at crew, deck space, maintenance programme, layout, tender, operating style, and how she will actually work in the place you want to go.
Yachting is a small, closely connected world. Captains, crew, managers, owners and shipyards know the things that never reach a public listing. Seven years buys the phone numbers — and the straight answer when you call.
Build my shortlistYou are not chartering a boat. You are choosing the moments that will happen around it.