S/Y MELITI
Garcia 86 · 26.32 m / 86 ft · 6 Guests
Walk her before you ask about her
1 minute aboard, deck by deck.
What are the full specifications of S/Y MELITI, a Garcia 86?
How much does it cost to charter a Garcia 86 for 6 guests in Greece for a week?
What does a Garcia 86 look like inside and out?
What is on board S/Y MELITI?
- Garcia 86, the only 86 the yard ever built
- Her chef took first place in Category A at the 2025 Mediterranean Yacht Show Chef's Competition
- Sailing staff including offshore racing champions and Olympic Games participants
- Refitted in 2021, built to MCA compliance
- Six guests in one master and two doubles, all en-suite
- Crew of four in separate quarters
- Twenty six metres of genuine bluewater monohull
- Interiors in natural wood, warm rather than white
- Hydraulic gangway and swimming platform
What water toys come with a Garcia 86 in Greece?
- Tender
- Stand-up paddleboards
- Snorkelling equipment
- Fishing gear
- Kayak
Does a Garcia 86 suit 6 guests in 3 cabins?
Six guests who want a real sailing yacht rather than a floating apartment, and anyone who would rather be crewed by sailors than by hotel staff
George's Inside Info
“MELITI is the yacht I keep for the guest who actually sails. She is the only Garcia 86 in existence, her sailing staff include offshore champions and Olympic participants, and her chef won Category A outright at the 2025 Mediterranean Yacht Show. Four crew for six guests is a ratio you normally only see on boats three times the price. Take her to the Cyclades in June with the Meltemi filling in behind you, ask the crew to actually race her one afternoon, and understand that she heels, which is the whole point. This is not a floating apartment.”
- George P. Biniaris, Managing Broker & IYBA Member
The Yacht in Detail
MELITI, and the only one of her kind
Garcia Yachts built one 86. This is her. That single fact is the beginning of everything interesting about MELITI, because a one-off is a boat somebody wanted badly enough to commission rather than choose from a brochure.
She is twenty six metres of bluewater monohull, built in 2004 and refitted in 2021, compliant with MCA standards, and finished inside in natural wood rather than the white gloss that has flattened so much of modern yachting into one look.
A crew who race, and a chef who won
This is the part I would not believe if it were not written into her own specification. Her sailing staff include offshore racing champions and participants in the Olympic Games. On a charter yacht that is close to unheard of, and it changes the character of a week completely: you are not being driven around the islands, you are sailing with people who do this at the top level.
And in 2025 her chef, George, took first place in Category A at the Mediterranean Yacht Show Chef's Competition. Not a placing. First.
Six guests, and why that is the point
She sleeps six in one master and two double cabins, each with its own bathroom, with a crew of four looking after them. That ratio, four crew for six guests, is what a large yacht does for twelve. Here it is pointed at half as many people.
She is a monohull and she heels. If that sentence worries you, she is the wrong boat and I will say so before you book, not after. If it is the reason you are reading this page, she may be the best week we can arrange for you.
A Sample 7-Day Route
What a week aboard S/Y MELITI can look like
Total: 207 NM
- Day 1· 22 NM
Athens (Alimos)→Cape Sounion
Two and a half hours under way. Anchor under the temple, which is what boats crossing between Athens and the Cyclades have always done.
- Day 2· 22 NM
Cape Sounion→Kythnos (Kolona)
Kythnos keeps its own hours and the anchorage at Kolona is the reason people come back. Reckon on two and a half hours from the last berth.
- Day 3· 33 NM
Kythnos (Kolona)→Sifnos (Vathi)
Three and a half hours at her cruising speed. Sifnos cooks better than anywhere else this size in the Aegean, and it has been doing it for a century.
- Day 4· 30 NM
Sifnos (Vathi)→Paros (Naoussa)
The marble here built half of classical Athens, and the quarries are still open to walk into. Three and a half hours on passage at 9 knots.
- Day 5· 35 NM
Paros (Naoussa)→Serifos (Livadi)
Four hours under way. Serifos has been mined since antiquity and the workings are still there, rusting into the hillside.
- Day 6· 32 NM
Serifos (Livadi)→Kea (Vourkari)
Vourkari's quay takes a stern line and the tavernas are a hundred metres from it. Reckon on three and a half hours from the last berth.
- Day 7· 33 NM
Kea (Vourkari)→Athens (Alimos)
Three and a half hours at her cruising speed. Home to Alimos with the day still in front of you, bags packed at leisure in the morning.
Indicative only - every charter is shaped around your group, the wind, and the season.
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