P/CAT ARIVA

The Yacht in Detail

Every other yacht on this page works out of Athens. ARIVA works out of Corfu, and that single fact is the reason she is here.

The Meltemi is the north wind that funnels down the Aegean from roughly mid July to the end of August. In the Cyclades it can blow six or seven for days at a time, and while a good captain works around it, a family with a five year old aboard does not want to be worked around. The Ionian sits on the other side of the country and does not get it. The islands are green rather than bare, the passages are short, and the water in the bays off Paxos looks like a swimming pool because it very nearly is one.

She is a Fountaine Pajot Power 67 built in 2023, ten guests in five cabins with four crew, galley up so the chef is in the room with you, and a jacuzzi on the foredeck under a sun awning. Her draft is 1.15 metres, which is what lets her into the shallow Ionian bays that a monohull of the same length has to admire from outside.

One number needs reading properly before you get to the contract. Her certified Greek VAT rate is 12 per cent rather than the 6.5 per cent you will see on our Athens boats. VAT here follows the yacht's certification, not the destination or the price, and on a 48,000 euro week that difference is real money. It is in the price on this page for exactly that reason.

The boat

ARIVA is a Fountaine Pajot Power 67, built 2023, measuring 20,36 m / 67 ft. She takes 10 guests in 5 cabins with 4 - Captain, Chef, Stewardess, Deckhand aboard, and she works out of Corfu.

She cruises at 15 knots and tops out at 19 knots. That number matters more than it looks on a charter: it decides whether a Cycladic hop is an hour of the morning or half the day, and it decides how much of your APA goes into the fuel tank rather than into dinner.

Accommodation

An owner's suite with a double bed between queen and king size, and four double cabins with queen beds. Galley up. All five cabins have private facilities.

The crew

Captain Spiros Kolovos, Chef Georgios Schismenos, Stewardess Fiona Kubin, Deckhand Daniel Andrasi. Four crew for this many guests is a comfortable ratio: someone is always free for the tender, the galley never stops, and the cabins are turned down while you are ashore.

What a week costs

The base fee is €48,000 in high season, july and august, €43,000 in mid season, june and september, €34,000 in low season, october to may. Those are the yacht only. On top of them sit Greek VAT at 12%, which is this yacht's certified rate rather than a national flat rate, and an Advance Provisioning Allowance of 30% per cent of the base.

The APA is not a fee. It is your money, held by the captain and spent against receipts on fuel, food, drink, berths and anything else the week actually consumes. Whatever is left comes back to you at disembarkation. The MYBA contract we write on fixes how that account works; it does not fix the percentage, which is why you will see 20 to 40 per cent across our fleet depending on how thirsty the boat is.

Crew gratuity is customary rather than contractual, and the MYBA guideline is 10 to 15 per cent of the base fee, calculated on the base and never on the total. Nobody will ask you for it and you decide at the end of the week.

On deck and in the water

She carries 10 categories of water toy, listed in full further down this page. The ones that change a week rather than decorate a brochure: highfield 420sp tender with 60 hp outboard, seabob f9, water skis, adult. Everything is checked and working at handover, and anything that needs a licence is flagged before you board rather than after.

What the fee includes, and what it does not

The charter fee covers the yacht with all her equipment in working order, the tender and the water toys, the crew's wages, food and uniform, the yacht's insurance, laundry of the ship's linen, and the cleaning and consumable stores. That is the MYBA standard and it is what you are actually buying.

It does not cover fuel for the engines, generators or toys, your food and drink, berthing and harbour dues, water and electricity taken from shore, agents' fees, personal laundry, or shore transport. All of that runs through the APA against receipts. If the yacht is chartered from a port other than her home base there is a relocation charge, and for Santorini specifically the central agent adds one day because of the logistics there.

Who she suits

Families with young children who should not meet the Meltemi, groups of ten who want short passages between green islands, and anyone flying into Corfu rather than Athens.

George's note

ARIVA is the one I reach for when a family with small children asks for August. She is based in Corfu, and the Ionian does not get the Meltemi that makes a Cycladic August hard work with a five year old aboard. The netted floating pool and the 3 x 3 metre dock are genuinely the difference between parents relaxing and parents watching. One number to read carefully: her certified VAT is 12 per cent rather than the 6.5 you will see on our Athens boats, because the rate follows the yacht's certification and not the destination. It is in the price above and I would rather you saw it here than at signature.

A week aboard

The itinerary below is a real working route of 132 NM, not a brochure loop. It moves with the prevailing wind and it can be reversed, shortened or thrown away entirely: the captain decides each morning on the actual forecast, and that is the point of a crewed week.