How to Choose a Crewed Yacht Charter Broker in Greece

The contract and the money come first. A crewed week in Greece is a contract with a private owner for a yacht, a crew and seven nights. The MYBA Charter Agreement is the form every serious house in the Mediterranean writes on; it fixes how the deposit is held, how the APA account is kept and what happens if the yacht cannot sail. A broker who writes on anything else, or who asks for a transfer to a personal account, has answered the question for you. The APA and the VAT tell you whether the broker has done the work. The APA is not a surcharge; it is your running account for the week, and a broker who has run the route knows that a Saronic week spends the low end and a Mykonos loop the high end. The VAT belongs to the yacht, not to the broker, and sits on her certificate; a proposal that prints it next to her name was written by someone who has read the certificate. "Plus expenses" and "VAT to be confirmed" are the two phrases that end a conversation at this desk. Who, and how many. Ask who will be on the quay on the day you board. If the answer is the person who wrote the proposal, you have a broker; if it is "the local agent", you have a desk. Then look at what comes back: two or three yachts whose weeks have been confirmed with the owners, each on four lines, base, VAT, APA and gratuity, so they compare on the same basis. Thirty yachts is a search result; three is a judgement, and the judgement is what the owner's commission pays for. Who you are dealing with. George Yachts Brokerage House LLC is a United States company, registered in Wyoming, with its brokerage desk in Athens, a few minutes from the marinas the yachts leave from. It is a boutique house: one broker, George P. Biniaris, Founder and Managing Broker, a licensed sailing skipper with a powerboat licence valid to 25 metres, handles every file himself, from the first message to the quay on check-in day, and is reachable on WhatsApp at +1 786 798 8798. The house is listed as an IYBA Charter Active Member, writes every charter on the MYBA form of agreement, was featured in Forbes in May 2026, and holds a 5.0 rating on Google. The APA, the VAT at each yacht's certified rate and the gratuity are set out line by line in every proposal, so nothing arrives as a surprise.