Yachts For Kings is an independent buyer's guide to three things: weekly yacht charters at $50K to $2M per week, day charters at $1.5K to $40K per day, and yacht brokerage at $2M to $300M and up. We cover 80 destinations and more than 12,000 yachts. The data is refreshed every quarter. The site went live in 2026. We earn affiliate commissions and broker referral fees, and we have never changed a ranking for money. The full revenue breakdown sits on our how we make money page.
Why this site exists
The places most people use to research a charter, hire a day yacht, or buy a yacht are all run by the people brokering the yachts. That is not a small problem. Burgess will not tell you that the 70m motor yacht they list has a captain who has been on the boat 11 months and is looking for the next position. Edmiston will not tell you that the Caribbean flagship in their winter catalogue was patched and repainted rather than properly refit. Boat International runs a yacht awards program funded in part by the same shipyards whose yachts the awards rank. The industry press is structurally compromised. We are not, because our revenue comes from a different angle, and that angle is documented in detail rather than buried in a legal footer.
What we cover
The site is built around three product lines, kept separate because they serve different readers.
The weekly charter index covers yachts available for charter at $50,000 to $2,000,000 per week, organized by destination, size, and trip shape. The Mediterranean season runs May to October. The Caribbean season runs December to April. May and November are repositioning weeks and worth knowing about for buyers of shoulder-season inventory.
The day charter index covers boats available by the day at $1,500 to $40,000, organized by city and operator. This is the page you want when you are at a hotel in Cannes and need a tender, a sportfish, or a 30m motor yacht for the morning.
The brokerage index covers yachts for sale at $2,000,000 to $300,000,000 and up, organized by builder, LOA, and asking price. Asking is not selling, and the gap matters. We say so on the page.
The cross-references between the three product lines exist where they should and nowhere else. A charter client researching a week in Sardinia does not need a brokerage memo about the same yacht. A buyer reading about a Feadship for sale should not be diverted to its day-rate availability.
How we are different
Five things separate us from the broker-owned yacht guides.
We rank. Most yacht sites list. A list of 200 Mediterranean charter yachts is not editorial. A ranked guide to the 12 we would actually charter is. We take a view, we name an Editor's Pick, we say who comes second, and we say why.
We publish a "passed on" section on every best-of guide and every broker review. A review that names no failures is not a review.
We cover all three product lines in one editorial voice. If you are chartering the yacht you may eventually buy, the charter page and the brokerage page speak to each other. The technical vocabulary is consistent. The verdicts are consistent.
We publish how we make money, by revenue stream and by partner. Direct broker referral, aggregator affiliate, brokerage sale referral, sponsored content, planned display and premium tiers. The numbers are on /about/how-we-make-money/.
We link out. A destination page for the French Riviera connects to villas at VillasForKings, hotels at HotelsForKings, restaurants at RestaurantsForKings, and bars at BarsForKings. A charter week is not just the yacht. The yacht is the trip. The trip includes the rest of the coastline.
Who runs the site
Yachts For Kings is built and edited by Fredrik Filipsson, working from a base in Florida. Fredrik also runs the four sister sites in the For Kings network. The yacht-side editorial work is supported by a small group of contributors with charter broker, captain, and owner-side backgrounds. They are not named on the site because they still work in the industry. They are paid in cash, their notes are fact-checked against MYBA contracts and registry records, and their copy is re-verified before publication. Contributors do not choose which yachts are covered or where they rank. That decision sits with editorial.
Methodology and refresh cadence
The full review checklist, the disqualification criteria, the refresh schedule, and the reader correction process are documented on our methodology page. The short version: every recommended yacht has been reviewed against a 35-to-40 criteria checklist, every broker review is rebuilt every 12 months, and every destination page is re-verified each quarter. If we cannot verify a fact, we mark it [VERIFY: pending] inline. We do not invent specs, refit dates, or APA figures.
Contact and corrections
Reader email goes to editor@yachtsforkings.com. If you have chartered, bought, or considered any yacht we cover and we got something wrong, the contact and corrections page is the fastest route to the editor. We publish corrections inline and date them. Broker and shipyard PR contacts use the same address. We respond to factual corrections within five working days. We do not respond to ranking-change requests.
The brand promise
The line at the top of every page is, "The yacht is the trip." The promise behind it, the one we run the site by, is shorter. You will not waste a million dollars at sea.