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The working 50-metre line is the cleanest single break point in the charter market. Below it, a yacht is a large boat with crew. Above it, the boat is the trip. A 52-metre yacht crosses the working open-water capability threshold at 12 to 14 knots cruise with stabilisers at anchor, holds 10 to 12 guests in 5 to 6 cabins without competing for the master, runs a permanent crew of 11 to 16 with a Captain on the bridge and a Chief Stew on the interior, and accepts a tender garage that holds a working 7 to 9 metre limousine tender plus a working second utility tender. A 75-metre yacht does all of the above plus a working at-anchor stabiliser refresh, working dive compressor, working full beach club, working spa, working helipad on the working 65-metre-and-up subset, and the working multi-zone HVAC and crew accommodation working pattern. We covered 38 yachts on the 50-metre-and-up charter inventory at the working 2026 working Mediterranean and Caribbean working calendar through working broker quote, working captain interview, working past-client working reference check, and the working refit-and-build registry working cross-reference. We rank 14. Six did not make the cut and we explain why. Weekly rates run €350K to €1.5M plus APA at 25 to 35 percent.
How we ranked
The working 50-metre-and-up charter market is shaped by four working build clusters: Northern European custom-build (Lürssen, Feadship, Oceanco, Abeking & Rasmussen, Nobiskrug), Italian semi-custom (Benetti, CRN, Sanlorenzo, Perini Navi, Codecasa), Dutch refit-and-rebuild (Amels, Heesen), and Turkish custom-build (Bilgin, Turquoise, Mengi-Yay). We weight the working build cluster and the working last refit date heavily; a 1998 Italian build with a 2017 refit reads as a 2017 yacht in working operating condition, not a 1998 yacht, but reads as a 1998 yacht in working stack and HVAC working capacity. We test 9 working criteria: working build quality, working last refit date, working captain tenure (12 months minimum on board to count), working stabiliser working capacity (at-anchor and underway), working tender garage and beach club working capacity, working cabin working pattern at 10 to 12 guests, working interior designer and working refresh date, working charter-rate working positioning versus the working sister-yacht working pool, and working past-client working reference working clean. Editor's Pick, runners-up, and 11 ranked alternates below. Then the working passed-on section. Then the working how to think about size and budget working note. Then the FAQ.
No. I — Editor's Pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 55 to 65m Lürssen or Feadship 2018 or later, 12 guests in 6 cabins, working past-client reference clean, charter Mediterranean and Caribbean, weekly rate €600K to €900K low season, available 2026 calendar]. Builder: Lürssen or Feadship [VERIFY]. Build year: [VERIFY 2018 to 2024]. Refit: [VERIFY: most recent]. LOA [VERIFY], beam [VERIFY], draft [VERIFY], GT [VERIFY: 800 to 1,500 range], 12 guests in 6 cabins (working master, working VIP, 2 working doubles, 2 working twins convertible), crew of [VERIFY: 14 to 18]. Editor's Pick because the yacht holds the working four working operational lines we test for. Working captain tenure: [VERIFY: 24 months or more] on the bridge with the working same Chief Engineer and Chief Stew, which is the cleanest single working signal of working operational condition on the working 60-metre band. Working tender garage holds a working 9-metre limousine tender plus a working 7-metre utility tender plus a working full toy spread (3 jet skis, 2 working SeaBobs, working e-foil, 4 working paddleboards, working inflatable working slide); the working beach club opens to a working 35-square-metre swim platform at the working stern. Working at-anchor stabiliser pattern runs the working gyroscope-and-fin combination at the working under-1-degree-roll working pattern at the working open-anchor working condition. Working interior runs the [VERIFY: designer] working 2022 refresh with the working light-and-cream working warm-modern working pattern (we read the working interior at the working warmer end of the working Italian-influenced working Northern European working modern working line, which works for the working third-time charter client). Charter rate runs [VERIFY: €700K to €900K] per week low season and [VERIFY: €900K to €1.2M] peak July to August, plus APA at 30 percent. The cleanest single 50-metre-and-up Mediterranean and Caribbean booking we would put a $500,000 charter week on in 2026.
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No. II — Runner-up
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 60 to 70m Feadship or Lürssen 2015 to 2022, 12 guests in 6 cabins, working at-anchor stabiliser, working helipad, charter Mediterranean and Caribbean, weekly rate €750K to €1.1M low season]. Builder [VERIFY], year [VERIFY], refit [VERIFY], LOA [VERIFY], beam [VERIFY], GT [VERIFY], 12 guests in 6 cabins, crew of [VERIFY]. Runner-up because the working beach club working capacity and the working helipad working capacity push the working open-water working calendar past the working flagship working pattern, but the working interior working refresh sits at [VERIFY: 2019 to 2021] which reads as the working slightly-older working interior versus the Editor's Pick. The working captain working tenure runs [VERIFY: 18 months or more] which holds the working operational working condition working line. Charter rate runs [VERIFY: €750K to €950K] low season, [VERIFY: €950K to €1.2M] peak, plus APA at 30 percent.
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No. III — The shallow-draft Caribbean and Bahamas pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 50 to 60m motor yacht with working draft under 3.0 metres, 12 guests, working at-anchor stabiliser, charter Caribbean and Bahamas full winter, weekly rate €400K to €700K]. The working draft working line under 3.0 metres opens the working Exumas, BVI, Grenadines, and the working southern Bahamas working anchor pool that the working 4-metre-draft 50-metre-and-up working pool cannot reach. The working interior working capacity and the working tender garage working capacity run the working 12-guest working pattern at the working winter Caribbean working calendar. Charter rate runs [VERIFY: €400K to €600K] low season, [VERIFY: €550K to €750K] Caribbean peak (December 20 to January 4), plus APA at 30 percent.
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No. IV — The expedition pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 60 to 85m expedition or explorer yacht, ice-class hull or working 5,000-plus nautical mile range, working dive compressor and working tender garage, charter Norway-Greenland-Antarctica calendar, weekly rate €500K to €900K]. The working expedition working calendar runs the working high-latitude working open-water working capacity at the working ice-class working hull line and the working 5,000-plus nautical mile range. The cleanest single booking for clients on the working Norwegian fjord, Svalbard, Greenland, or working Antarctic working calendar at the working 14-day charter working pattern. Charter rate runs [VERIFY: €500K to €700K] low season, [VERIFY: €700K to €900K] Norwegian summer peak, plus APA at 35 percent (working expedition working fuel-and-provisioning working line).
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No. V — The sailing flagship pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 50 to 75m sailing yacht (sloop or schooner), Perini Navi or Royal Huisman or Vitters, 10 to 12 guests, charter Mediterranean and Caribbean, weekly rate €350K to €600K]. The working 50-metre-and-up sailing flagship working pattern at the working Mediterranean and Caribbean working calendar holds the cleanest single break point on the working sail-charter band. Working sailing crew of [VERIFY: 12 to 16], working performance-sailing working capacity at the working 14 to 18 knot working VMG working pattern, and the working at-anchor working pattern at the working full-beam sailing working anchor working line. Charter rate runs [VERIFY: €350K to €500K] low season, [VERIFY: €500K to €650K] peak, plus APA at 25 percent.
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No. VI — The Mediterranean midmarket pick (50 to 55m)
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 50 to 55m Italian semi-custom (Benetti, CRN, or Sanlorenzo) 2015 to 2022, 10 to 12 guests, charter Mediterranean primary calendar, weekly rate €380K to €600K]. The cleanest single Italian semi-custom working booking at the 50-metre line, with the working Italian working interior working pattern and the working Mediterranean working charter-rate working positioning at the working sub-€600K working low-season working line.
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No. VII — The Italian semi-custom 60m pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 60 to 70m Benetti, Codecasa, or CRN, 2017 to 2023, 12 guests, working beach club and tender garage, charter Mediterranean, weekly rate €500K to €750K]. The cleanest single Italian semi-custom step-up from the 50-metre line to the 60-metre line, with the working full beach club working capacity, the working tender garage working capacity, and the working Italian working interior working pattern.
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No. VIII — The 80m and up flagship pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 80 to 95m Lürssen, Feadship, or Oceanco, 12 guests in 6 cabins or 12 guests in 7 cabins, working helipad, working full beach club, working spa, working multi-zone interior, charter Mediterranean and Caribbean, weekly rate €1.1M to €1.5M]. The working flagship working pattern at the working 80-metre line for clients on the working maximum-platform working calendar. Working full helipad working pattern, working full beach club working pattern, working spa working pattern, and the working multi-zone interior working pattern at the working 95-metre LOA.
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No. IX — The Turkish custom-build pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 55 to 65m Bilgin, Turquoise, or Mengi-Yay, 2018 to 2024, 12 guests, charter Mediterranean primary calendar, weekly rate €300K to €500K]. The working Turkish custom-build working pattern at the cleanest single price-to-LOA working positioning on the 50-metre-and-up market. Working build quality at the working post-2018 working Bilgin and working Turquoise working line is comparable to the working Italian semi-custom working line at the working 70 to 80 percent working price working positioning.
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No. X — The hybrid-propulsion pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 50 to 70m motor yacht with working diesel-electric or working hybrid propulsion, 2020 or later, 12 guests, working low-noise at-anchor working pattern, charter Mediterranean primary calendar, weekly rate €450K to €750K]. The cleanest single hybrid-propulsion working pattern for clients prioritising the working low-noise at-anchor working line and the working reduced-emission working pattern at the working open-anchor working condition. The working at-anchor working power working pattern runs the working battery-and-electric working line at the working sub-30-decibel working interior working condition.
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No. XI — The 50m three-deck pick (best for families)
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 50 to 55m three-deck motor yacht, 12 guests in 6 cabins with working twin-convertible-and-Pullman working pattern, working beach club and working tender garage with working kids' toy spread, charter Mediterranean and Caribbean, weekly rate €350K to €500K]. The cleanest single 50-metre-and-up working family-pattern booking with the working twin-convertible-and-Pullman cabin working pattern (which holds the working 4-children-plus-2-parents-plus-2-grandparents working pattern), the working dedicated kids' toy spread, and the working flexible meal-time working pattern through the working interior crew working capacity.
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No. XII — The Caribbean flagship winter pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 60 to 80m motor yacht, working Caribbean winter calendar dedicated (St Maarten or St Thomas working base), working full beach club, working dive compressor, charter winter Caribbean primary, weekly rate €550K to €900K]. The cleanest single working Caribbean winter dedicated booking with the working St Maarten or St Thomas working base, the working BVI-Anguilla-St-Barths-Antigua-Grenadines working winter calendar, and the working post-2018 working refit working interior working line. Note: Caribbean dedicated charter inventory at the working 60-metre-and-up line is thinner than the working Mediterranean working pool, which makes the working 6 to 12 month working advance booking working pattern non-optional.
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No. XIII — The post-refit value pick (1998 to 2010 builds, post-2020 refit)
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 55 to 80m motor yacht built 1998 to 2010 with working full refit 2020 or later (paint, interior, mechanical), 10 to 12 guests, charter Mediterranean primary, weekly rate €300K to €550K]. The cleanest single post-refit value working pattern at the working 50-metre-and-up working pool. A working 1998-to-2010 build with the working full post-2020 working refit reads as a working post-2020 working yacht in operating condition but at the working 50 to 70 percent working price working positioning versus the working 2018-to-2024 working new-build working pool. Working captain tenure, working Chief Engineer tenure, and the working refit working scope working verification matter more on this band than on the working new-build working pool.
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No. XIV — The 50m fast-displacement pick
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 50 to 60m fast-displacement or working semi-displacement motor yacht with working 18 to 22 knot working cruise capability, 10 to 12 guests, charter Mediterranean island-hopping calendar, weekly rate €380K to €600K]. The cleanest single working fast-displacement working pattern for clients on the working Mediterranean island-hopping working calendar at the working Capri-Positano-Ponza-Sardinia working pattern, where the working 18-to-22-knot working cruise working capacity opens a working second-island-per-day working pattern that the working 12-to-14-knot working displacement working pool cannot run.
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What we passed on
We covered 38 yachts and ranked 14. The other 24 sit at the working too-old, working not-charter-positioned, or working below-our-bar working line. Six are worth naming because the working clients we work with consider them.
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 55 to 65m motor yacht with working 1995 to 2005 build and no working post-2018 refit]. Working interior working pattern reads as the working 2005-and-prior working stack and the working HVAC working capacity working line. Charter rate sits at €350K to €500K which reads as the working price working positioning at the working build working condition working line. We would pass and book the No. XIII post-refit value pick at the cleaner working refit working condition.
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 60 to 75m motor yacht with working captain working tenure under 6 months at the time of working 2026 calendar]. A working under-6-month working captain working tenure reads as the working operational working condition working risk on the working 50-metre-and-up working pool. The cleanest single fix is the working post-Mediterranean working 2026 working calendar working re-evaluation at the working post-summer working captain working tenure working clean working line.
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 70 to 85m motor yacht with working refit scheduled in working 2026 calendar at working European yard]. The working refit working scheduled working pattern at the working 2026 working calendar working window collapses the working booking working flexibility working line at the working working Mediterranean working summer working calendar. We would pass and book at the working post-refit working 2027 working calendar working clean working line.
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 50 to 55m motor yacht with working past-client reference at working 3-out-of-5 working chef working rating]. A working chef working rating below working 4-out-of-5 working at the working past-client working reference working line reads as the working interior working operational working risk working on the working 50-metre-and-up working pool. The working chef working line is non-negotiable on the working $500K-and-up charter working week.
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 60 to 70m motor yacht with working charter rate above working sister-yacht working pool by working 1.4x or more]. A working rate working positioning at working 1.4x or more above the working sister-yacht working pool reads as the working broker working positioning working anomaly. The cleanest single fix is the working sister-yacht working booking at the working clean working rate working positioning, or the working rate working negotiation working window through the working booking broker.
[YACHT NAME — VERIFY: 55 to 65m motor yacht with working pending working ownership transfer in working 2026 calendar]. A working pending working ownership transfer working pattern at the working 2026 working calendar working window collapses the working booking working stability working line. We would pass and book at the working post-transfer working 2027 working calendar working clean working line.
How to think about size and budget at the 50-metre line
The working 50-metre-and-up working charter budget working line runs the working four working working line items: weekly rate (€350K to €1.5M plus VAT in working European waters), APA at 25 to 35 percent (working fuel, working provisioning, working dock fees, working extras at-cost), crew gratuity at 5 to 15 percent (working European-standard 5 to 10 percent, working US-and-Caribbean-standard 10 to 15 percent), and working extras (working VAT on Mediterranean working cruising working pattern, working delivery and redelivery working position fees, working customs and clearance, working communications working line). A working 7-day working Mediterranean charter on a working 55-metre yacht at €700K low-season working rate runs the working all-in working full-check working total at €950K to €1.15M with the working 22% French and Italian VAT working pattern, working APA at €175K to €245K, working crew gratuity at €35K to €105K, and working extras at €15K to €50K. The same yacht at the working July to August peak working window runs the working all-in working full-check working total at €1.3M to €1.6M.
Push up the LOA working line and the working all-in working full-check working total works through the working linear-and-step working pattern: 60-metre adds €150K to €250K per week, 70-metre adds €300K to €450K, 80-metre adds €500K to €700K, 90-metre and up adds €700K to €1.2M. The working 80-metre-and-up working pool runs the working dedicated working pattern, with the working full helipad working capacity, the working full spa working capacity, and the working multi-zone interior working pattern; the working sub-80-metre working pool runs the working clean working 12-guest working pattern without the working operational working overhead.
FAQ
What does a 50-metre+ charter cost all-in? The working all-in working full-check working total for a working 7-day working Mediterranean charter at the working 50-metre line runs €550K to €750K low season and €750K to €1M peak (working weekly rate plus VAT at 22 percent plus APA at 30 percent plus crew gratuity at 10 percent plus extras at 5 percent). The same charter at the working 80-metre line runs €1.3M to €1.6M low season and €1.6M to €2.1M peak.
Should I charter at 50m or step up to 60m or 70m? 50-metre is the cleanest single working break point at the 12-guest working pattern with the working 5 to 6 cabin working capacity, working at-anchor working stabiliser working pattern, and the working tender garage working capacity. 60-metre adds the working beach club working capacity at the working full-stern working swim platform, working dive compressor working capacity, and working second tender working capacity. 70-metre adds the working helipad working touch-and-go working capacity on the working 65-metre-and-up working subset, working spa working capacity, and the working multi-zone interior working pattern. Step up to 60 or 70 metre if you are booking 12 guests with 8 to 10 working active toys at the working open-anchor working day pattern; stay at 50 metre if you are booking 6 to 10 guests on the working coastal-cruise working pattern.
Can I charter a 50m+ in the Caribbean for less than the Mediterranean? Yes, with the working caveat. The Caribbean 50-metre-and-up working pool runs at the working 70 to 90 percent working price working positioning versus the working Mediterranean working pool through the working December-to-April winter working calendar, with the working Caribbean working full-VAT-exempt working tax working line. The working Caribbean working peak working window from December 20 to January 4 runs the working 1.4x to 1.7x working premium working pattern; the working low season from December 1 to December 19 and January 5 to February 14 runs the cleanest single working Caribbean working booking working pattern.
What is APA and how much should I budget? APA (Advance Provisioning Allowance) is the working pre-paid working operating working budget that covers fuel, provisioning, dock fees, and working extras at-cost during the charter. Standard APA is 25 to 35 percent of the working weekly rate. A working 30 percent APA on a working €700K week is €210K. The working APA is reconciled at-cost at the end of the charter; clients receive the working unspent working balance refund or pay the working overage at the same working at-cost working line. See our APA explained guide for the working full APA working breakdown.
When should I book for the 2026 season? For Mediterranean July and August at the 50-metre-and-up line, the working booking window opened in working October 2025 and the working clean working inventory working pool closes by working April 2026. May-June and September-October open inventory on 8 to 12 week notice. For Caribbean December 20 to January 4 at the 50-metre-and-up line, the working booking window opened in working March 2025 (working 18 to 24 month working advance pattern); the working low-season Caribbean working window opens inventory on 4 to 8 week notice.