What Happens If the Weather Is Bad on My Charter Day?

The contract puts the decision where it belongs. The MYBA charter agreement gives the captain authority over the yacht's movements on grounds of safety, and it does not treat weather as a reason to cancel or claim money back, because a yacht cannot be sold to someone else for the week the wind blows. That sounds hard until you see what it means in practice: a captain who has run the Cyclades for fifteen Augusts knows which bay is flat when the Meltemi is at force 7 and takes you there, and the day you would have spent crossing to Mykonos you spend in the water off Antiparos. What Greek bad weather is. From May to September it does not rain to speak of. The weather is wind, and the wind is the Meltemi: a dry northerly that gets up in the Aegean on its days from mid-July to late August, strongest between Mykonos and Naxos, lighter down the western Cyclades, absent in the Saronic and the Ionian. On a stabilised motor yacht or a well-handled catamaran it is a lively crossing, not a danger; the captains plan around it and the itinerary says "the Cyclades", not "Tuesday, Mykonos". What this house does. Writes a first week in the Saronic or the Ionian for a party that does not want weather as a factor; writes the Cyclades with a captain who knows them for a party that does; is on the phone with the captain on the morning it blows; and says all of this before the deposit, not after. 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.