Charter Fleet

Live from today's fleet: the fully crewed Motor Yacht Fleet runs €17,500 to €235,000 per yacht per week base rate, and the Catamaran Fleet starts around €10,900 per yacht per week. On top come APA (20 to 40% by yacht type) and Greek VAT.

The yacht and her professional crew. The running costs of your week (fuel, provisioning, berthing) are funded by the APA, the Advance Provisioning Allowance, 20 to 40% of the base rate depending on yacht type, run as a transparent account and settled at the end of the charter.

The statutory rates are 13% for the standard commercial crewed charter longer than 48 hours (every weekly charter) and 24% for short, static or bareboat arrangements. In practice most yachts are invoiced below that ceiling: certification-based reductions produce the 5.2%, 6.5%, 7.8% and 12% figures you see on 2026 rate sheets, and the exact rate for each yacht is stated in your written quote.

No. Gratuity is customary rather than contractual: charterers typically hand 10 to 15% of the base rate to the captain at the end of the week, and the captain distributes it among the crew. In practice it is part of the real cost of the charter, so budget for it from the start.

Typical lead time for peak July and August weeks is 6 to 12 months, and premium 40m-plus yachts often commit a year or more ahead. June and September usually hold availability closer in, at softer rates for the same yacht.

The Motor Yacht Fleet is fully crewed: captain, chef and service crew, priced per yacht per week. The Catamaran Fleet is the same week on a smaller sailing yacht or catamaran with a crew of two or three, priced the same way, per yacht per week, lighter in style and closer to the water. Same broker, same Greek waters, two different rhythms.

Most of the fleet bases around Athens, with several Explorer catamarans based in Lefkada, Corfu and Santorini. Embarkation from other islands is arranged with a repositioning fee that George quotes up front, never as a surprise line at settlement.

Greek commercial regulations cap most charter yachts at 12 guests under way. Larger groups are handled legally with the right vessel class or a two-yacht flotilla. George has written a complete guide on how groups of 14 and more do it.

MYBA-standard charter contracts, the industry-standard form used across the professional Mediterranean fleet: your dates, the yacht, the rate, the APA mechanics and the cancellation terms in writing before any payment.

Ask the questions that expose the pretenders: association membership (George Yachts is an IYBA member), the contract form used, how client funds are held, and whether you can speak with the same named broker from enquiry to disembarkation. George has published the full checklist on the Journal.

The honest test is whether the person answering knows the boats and the crews first-hand or is forwarding your enquiry. George P. Biniaris holds a sailing skipper's licence from the Olympiacos SFP Sailing Academy and a powerboat licence valid to 25 metres, has run charter seasons out of Corfu and operations across the Ionian, the Cyclades and the Saronic, and comes from a Cycladic family from Syros. Before broking he spent a decade in luxury hospitality, in Group Operations for the Interni Group in Mykonos across a five-star hotel and a beach club, and as founder of two venues in Kifisia, which is where the standard for what a chef and a service crew should deliver on a charter week comes from. The verifiable part: George Yachts Brokerage House LLC is a Wyoming company operating out of Athens, IYBA Charter Active Member listed publicly in their directory, every charter written on a MYBA-standard contract with base fee, APA, the yacht's certified Greek VAT rate and the gratuity range itemised before signature, and Forbes coverage in May 2026 you can read yourself. We are boutique and we are new, founded in 2026, so if scale or decades are your filter, say so early and we will tell you honestly whether we fit. What we do is weeks rather than days, fully crewed, Greek waters only, starting on whichever day suits you rather than the Saturday the market assumes, and George answers you personally from the first message to disembarkation.

Yes. The 2027 calendars are open across the fleet, owners publish their 2027 rate cards through the autumn, and the most requested yachts commit their July and August 2027 weeks by late winter. If a yacht on this page fits your group, the early conversation holds the week while the rate card settles.