How to Build a Charter Guest Preference Sheet the Whole Crew Actually Uses
What a preference sheet should ask, when to send it, and how galley, interior and deck turn one form into a week of service.
Charter Itinerary Guides
Practical guides for yacht crew and charter managers on planning, presenting and running luxury charter itineraries.
Yacht charter planning and destination guides
Practical guidance for captains, chief stewardesses, pursers, charter brokers and yacht managers.
How to Present a Yacht Charter Itinerary to Guests
Structure, tone, maps, photography and mobile-first delivery: how to send an itinerary guests open twice, and update it mid-charter.
Planning a 7-Day Corsica and Sardinia Yacht Charter Itinerary
Passage times through the Strait of Bonifacio, the La Maddalena permit, Posidonia anchoring rules and a sample one-way week.
Planning a 7-Day Balearic Islands Yacht Charter Itinerary
The Palma-Ibiza crossing, the Posidonia anchoring rules, Cabrera permits and a sample Mallorca-to-Formentera week.
Planning a 7-Day Greek Islands Yacht Charter Itinerary: Cyclades or Ionian?
Choosing between the Cyclades and the Ionian, routing around the meltemi, Greek charter rules and a sample week for each.
Planning a 7-Day Caribbean Yacht Charter Itinerary: St Maarten, St Barths and Antigua
Passages, island-by-island clearance, Gustavia berthing over the festive period and a sample St Maarten to Antigua week.
Planning a 7-Day French Riviera Yacht Charter Itinerary
Monaco to Saint-Tropez in a week: berths, the 2026 Pampelonne mooring zones, Posidonia anchoring rules and the quiet anchorages between the towns.
Planning a 7-Day Croatia Yacht Charter Itinerary: Split to Dubrovnik
Split to Dubrovnik through Hvar, Vis and Korčula: the vignette and eCrew paperwork, national park fees by the metre and a one-way sample week.
Planning a 7-Day Amalfi Coast and Capri Yacht Charter Itinerary
Capri, Positano, Amalfi and the islands: marine protected area zones, scarce berths, the day-boat cycle and a scenically dense sample week.
BVI Charter Itinerary: Planning a 7-Day British Virgin Islands Yacht Charter
The Tortola loop in around 90 miles: the 2025 fee changes, mooring-ball pressure points, the Anegada decision and a sample week.
Planning a 7-Day Bahamas Exumas Yacht Charter Itinerary
Nassau down the cays: how draft and tide decide the week, the Land and Sea Park fees and no-take rules, cold fronts and a sample week.
How to Build Weather Contingency Into a Charter Itinerary
Reserve days, paired anchorages, concentrated bookings and a daily decision point: designing a week that absorbs a lost day without collapsing.
How to Provision a Superyacht for a Charter Week
Lead times by port, splitting the order by temperature, vessel-stores and bonded rules, and what a charter week typically costs to provision.
Embarkation Day: How to Plan the First 24 Hours of a Charter
Turnaround, transfers, the welcome and safety brief and a deliberately gentle first evening: the timeline crews run on arrival day.
How to Plan Tender and Water Toy Operations for a Charter
Matching toys to the anchorage, briefing per item, named supervision, lithium battery risk and building launch time into the day.
How to Plan a Family Yacht Charter With Children Aboard
A family week is not an adult week with children added: the safety setup, cabins, pacing, activities by age and where the crew brief lives.
Caribbean Yacht Charter Season: Where and When to Go
How the Caribbean season moves, which month suits which guest, and how the cruising grounds compare — the starting point for the Caribbean guides.
Planning a 7-Day Grenadines Yacht Charter Itinerary
Bequia, Mustique, the Tobago Cays and Union Island: park fees, moorings, the two-country clearance and a sample week of very short passages.
Planning a 7-Day Antigua and Barbuda Yacht Charter Itinerary
English Harbour, the east coast reefs and Barbuda's pink sand, with the clearance sequence, permits and a sample week.
Planning a 7-Day US Virgin Islands Yacht Charter Itinerary
St Thomas, St John and the national park: mooring balls rather than anchors, the flag rule that decides the week, and a sample USVI–BVI route.
Planning a 7-Day Turks and Caicos Yacht Charter Itinerary
Grace Bay, West Caicos and French Cay: the SailClear windows, the over-60-foot anchoring permit, draft limits and a sample week.
Planning a 7-Day Windwards Yacht Charter Itinerary: St Lucia, Martinique and Dominica
Martinique, Dominica and St Lucia: three jurisdictions, the SMMA mooring regime, PAYS in Portsmouth and a sample week of real passages.
How to Plan a Caribbean Festive Season Charter
Booking windows, the Gustavia New Year problem, the Christmas winds, the two big service days and the turnaround between charters.
Caribbean Clearance and Paperwork: An Island-by-Island Crew Guide
SailClear versus eSeaClear, cruising permits and park fees, and how experienced crews build clearance into the itinerary instead of discovering it.
Mediterranean Yacht Charter Season: Where and When to Go
How the Mediterranean season moves, which wind belongs to which ground, and how the cruising grounds compare — the starting point for the Mediterranean guides.
Planning a 7-Day Turkish Riviera Yacht Charter Itinerary
The transit log, the Blue Card, the Greek crossing question and how crews sequence a week through the Gulf of Göcek and the Lycian coast.
Planning a 7-Day Sicily and Aeolian Islands Yacht or Boat Charter Itinerary
How to sequence a week between Sicily and the seven Aeolian islands, timed around Panarea, Lipari and an evening watching Stromboli erupt.
Planning a 7-Day Italian Riviera Yacht Charter Itinerary: Portofino and the Cinque Terre
The Ligurian coast between Genoa and Portovenere: solving Portofino first, the Cinque Terre permit position for charter yachts, and how to shape the week.
Planning a Montenegro and Albania Yacht Charter Itinerary
The lower Adriatic's growth story: the Bay of Kotor and its marinas, the Montenegrin vignette, and an Albanian coast that still needs an agent.
Mediterranean Charter VAT and Regulations: What Crew Need to Know
Why the embarkation port sets the tax, what each Mediterranean country charges, and the regimes that decide whether a yacht can charter at all.
How to Plan a Riviera Event Charter: Monaco, Cannes and the Season Calendar
Event charters are berth-led, not itinerary-led: the calendar, the booking cycle, and how to run a static hospitality week well.
Berthing Strategy for a High-Season Mediterranean Charter
Berths, not distance, are the binding constraint on a July itinerary: what they cost, how far ahead they go, and how to design a week that survives losing one.
Repositioning a Yacht Between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean
The season change that shapes the whole charter year: crossing under own power or by transport ship, and how crews plan around it.
Remote and Expedition Yacht Charter: Planning Beyond the Med and Caribbean
How expedition charter planning inverts the priorities of a Mediterranean or Caribbean week, and how the remote cruising grounds compare.
Planning a Norway and Svalbard Yacht Charter Itinerary
How a Norway charter splits into two very different products: the accessible fjords and Lofoten, and genuine Arctic expedition cruising in Svalbard under strict rules.
Planning a French Polynesia Yacht Charter Itinerary
How a French Polynesia charter works across the Society Islands, the Tuamotus and the Marquesas, and why the flag and use position must be settled first.
Planning a Galapagos Yacht Charter Itinerary
A Galapagos charter is defined by its permit regime — the autógrafo, the mandatory agent, the naturalist guide and the park-approved itinerary — more than any other cruising ground.
Planning a Fiji Yacht Charter Itinerary
A Fiji charter runs north-west from Port Denarau through the Mamanucas and up the Yasawa chain, shaped by the iTaukei cruising permit and the sevusevu protocol.
Planning an Indonesia Yacht Charter Itinerary: Raja Ampat and Komodo
Indonesia's two charter grounds, Komodo and Raja Ampat, sit at opposite ends of the archipelago with opposite seasons, and both now run on a modernised Vessel Declaration clearance system.
Planning a Papua New Guinea Yacht Charter Itinerary
Milne Bay and the Louisiades, Kimbe Bay diving, the 48-hour customs notice and the agent requirement for the most genuinely remote cruising in this section.
Planning an Alaska Yacht Charter Itinerary
The Inside Passage, the Glacier Bay permit quota, whale water rules and a sample week through the most accessible genuine wilderness in this section.
Permits, Agents and Clearance for Remote Cruising
How permit lead times, quota systems and mandatory agents shape a remote cruising season, and the habits that make clearance work.
Provisioning and Logistics Far From Supply
How crews calculate autonomy across fresh provisions, fuel, water, waste and spares, and the disciplines that make remote resupply work.
Cruising East: The Indian Ocean, Asia and Australasia
The second circuit: monsoon seasons, charter legality country by country, and how the grounds east of Suez compare.
Planning a Maldives Yacht Charter Itinerary
The 2024 foreign vessel regulation, cruising permits and passenger licences, the atolls worth the passage, and a sample week from Malé.
Planning a Seychelles Yacht Charter Itinerary
The inner granite islands against the outer atolls, the two trade wind seasons, marine park fees and a sample week from Victoria.
Planning a Thailand Yacht Charter Itinerary
Phang Nga Bay and the Andaman islands from Phuket, the park fees and closed seasons that shape the week, and a sample itinerary.
Planning a UAE Yacht Charter Itinerary: Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the Gulf
The 2026 unified Abu Dhabi and Dubai permit system, berth-led planning, the October to May season and a sample week.
Planning an Australia Yacht Charter Itinerary: The Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef
The 2019 foreign-flag charter permit, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park rules, pilotage over 70 metres and a sample Whitsundays week.
Planning a New Zealand Yacht Charter Itinerary
The clean hull standard and the 30-day rule, the four cruising regions from the Bay of Islands to Fiordland, and a sample week.
The Yacht Purser's Charter Week: A Practical Workflow
From booking confirmation to the final accounts: the paperwork, APA, guest admin and crew admin a purser runs across one charter.
How to Manage APA on a Yacht Charter
What APA covers, how to track it day by day, when to ask for a top-up, and how to close the account so guests trust the numbers.
The Chief Stew's Pre-Charter Checklist: 14 Days to Embarkation
A day-by-day countdown for the interior: preferences, orders, cabins, crew brief and the first hour on board.
Yacht Crew Handover Notes That Actually Work
What a rotation or new head of department needs to know, how to structure the notes, and the things that always get missed.
How Captains Brief Guests on the Itinerary and Changes
The day-one briefing, the nightly update and the weather call: how captains set expectations and change the plan without losing the guests' trust.
Planning a Charter Season, Not Just a Charter
Back-to-back bookings, turnaround days, repositioning and crew rest: how to plan a season so the tenth charter runs as well as the first.
Running Guest Services at Sea: Spa, Room Service and Steward Calls
Spa bookings, room service and steward calls without the chaos: hours, one request log, who answers what, and closing the loop with guests.
Turnaround Day Between Charters: A 24-Hour Interior and Galley Plan
From the last guest leaving to the next one arriving: an hour-by-hour plan for the interior and galley, with time for the crew to rest.
Writing a Charter Trip Report and Guest History File
Turn the last charter into a useful handover and a better repeat visit, without building an oversized guest dossier.
Night Passages and Long Legs on Charter: When and How to Tell Guests
Explain why the yacht needs to move, what guests can expect and what may change, before a long passage becomes a surprise.
Going Paperless on Board: What to Digitise First
Start with the documents crew rewrite most often, while keeping connectivity failures and required records in mind.
Yacht Crew Management for Small Teams Under 40 Metres
Give shared duties a clear owner, coordinate guest service and protect the crew's capacity when everyone wears two hats.