Yacht Guides

Yacht Guides

Plain-spoken guides to buying, chartering and owning a yacht: process, cost, APA, VAT and broker commission, written for owners and charterers rather than for search engines.

Chartering

How a charter is arranged, what the contract covers, how rates are quoted and what sits alongside the fee.

  • How to charter a yacht — from brief to embarkation.
  • How much it costs to charter a yacht — the fee and everything beside it.
  • What is APA — the Advance Provisioning Allowance, explained.

Buying and owning

The acquisition process, what moves an asking price, the annual budget behind ownership, and the tax and commission conventions that surround both.

  • How to buy a yacht — brief, team, offer, survey, closing.
  • How much a yacht costs — the drivers behind the figure.
  • The cost of owning a yacht — crew, refit reserve and the annual budget.
  • Yacht VAT — how it commonly applies, and why advice must be specific.
  • Yacht broker commission — who pays, when, and what to ask.

These guides describe how the market conventionally works. They are not legal, tax or financial advice, and they do not describe the terms of any specific yacht.