EME
Well-Known Member
Chartering in the Med...
Your long term plan needs careful consideration... I'm yet to meet anyone who genuinely can claim to make any money out of owner/chartering a single boat. Most people use charter as a cost - defrayal exercise.
Basically most boats in the Med up to 35-ish feet are chartered out 'bareboat'. These boats are obviously used as Day/Weekender boats and given a good hammering. More than one of us here have hit pontoons rather hard.
Then comes an in-betweeny range up to about 50 feet where the owners insist that a captain comes with the boat BUT most of these boats do not easily lend themselves to a skipper on board overnight as there is no clear delineation between owner and crew quarters. These do not appear to charter out very easily as they are a little small for families plus crew. Then come what might be called the luxury boats with discrete crew accomodation, BUT you are now loooking at £300k+ and most peeps would probably say No .... really £0.5m.
Sun Coast and TCM could undoubtedly be more precise on the state of the market.
Everyone else is providing you all the info on where and how to start but bigger is undoubtedly better for ease of handling, safety, seaworthiness etc if cruising is your personal aim.
Just don't be like me and aim too high and never own!
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Your long term plan needs careful consideration... I'm yet to meet anyone who genuinely can claim to make any money out of owner/chartering a single boat. Most people use charter as a cost - defrayal exercise.
Basically most boats in the Med up to 35-ish feet are chartered out 'bareboat'. These boats are obviously used as Day/Weekender boats and given a good hammering. More than one of us here have hit pontoons rather hard.
Then comes an in-betweeny range up to about 50 feet where the owners insist that a captain comes with the boat BUT most of these boats do not easily lend themselves to a skipper on board overnight as there is no clear delineation between owner and crew quarters. These do not appear to charter out very easily as they are a little small for families plus crew. Then come what might be called the luxury boats with discrete crew accomodation, BUT you are now loooking at £300k+ and most peeps would probably say No .... really £0.5m.
Sun Coast and TCM could undoubtedly be more precise on the state of the market.
Everyone else is providing you all the info on where and how to start but bigger is undoubtedly better for ease of handling, safety, seaworthiness etc if cruising is your personal aim.
Just don't be like me and aim too high and never own!
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