Reading a Listing Like a Broker: The Lines That Matter
Two yachts, same length, same price, wildly different days. The lines on a listing that professionals decode before they ever ask about availability.
Mike Silva
The Corporate Charter: Why Boards Think Better at 8 Knots
No lobby, no lanyards, no slipping out early. The off-site that outperforms the conference room, measured in decisions per day.
Roger Vega
Labor Day to Art Basel: Miami's Shoulder Season Is a Secret
Water above 80 degrees, rainfall that drops by two thirds, empty sandbars and a wide-open fleet. The numbers behind Miami's quietest thirteen weeks.
Tatiana Mendes
Amalfi by Water: A Coast Designed to Be Seen From a Deck
The road gets the fame and the traffic. The sea gets the view. Positano, Capri, Li Galli and the grottos, taken the way the coastline itself prefers.
Romina Abreu
Owners' Corner: What Your Yacht Does While You Are Away
A yacht that sits still costs the same as one that works. The numbers behind charter placement, and why the working yacht is usually the healthier one.
Sofía Herrera
What a Yacht Charter Really Costs: The Honest Breakdown
Day boat, motor yacht or superyacht: the typical Miami rates side by side, plus the six lines that turn a headline price into an invoice.
Valentina Moreau
The First-Time Charterer's Field Guide
Everything nobody tells you before your first charter, from what the price includes to what shoes to leave at home. Four checklists, read once, board like a veteran.
John Martin
Greek Isles in July: A Course Through the Cyclades
White villages, wine-dark water and the meltemi wind that built a sailing culture. Seven days out of Lavrion through Kea, Kythnos, Serifos, Sifnos, Milos and Paros.
Mike Silva
A Day Offshore: Sportfishing Out of Miami
Dock call at five, bait at Haulover, the edge of the Gulf Stream by seven. An hour-by-hour log of a summer sportfishing day out of Miami.
Roger Vega
The Galley Standard: Miracles in Twelve Square Feet
Charter chefs produce tasting menus in kitchens smaller than a closet, in a room that will not stop moving. A tribute to yachting's most underrated athletes.
Tatiana Mendes
Hurricane Season Without the Drama
June to November scares charterers who have not read the data. The professionals charter straight through it. Eight questions guests actually ask, answered plainly.
Romina Abreu
The Charter Packing List: What to Bring and What to Leave Ashore
The best-packed guests board with one soft bag and leave with everything they brought. A crew-approved list, sorted by where each item ends up.
Sofía Herrera
Fort Lauderdale: The Venice of America, Properly Done
A city with 165 miles of navigable water and tens of thousands of yachts. The numbers behind the yachting capital, and how to charter it from the inside.
Valentina Moreau
A Proposal at Sea: Engineering the Perfect Yes
Private, unrepeatable, and impossible to photobomb. The charter proposal in seven steps, from telling the crew to the ninety seconds after the yes.
John Martin
Memorial Day on the Bay: Six Moves Before Everyone Else Makes Them
The unofficial start of summer is the busiest boating weekend of the Miami year. Six decisions, made early, that separate a great long weekend from a crowded one.
Mike Silva
Catamaran or Monohull: An Honest Conversation
Space against soul, stability against sensation. The oldest argument in yachting, settled the only way it can be: by what your week is for.
Roger Vega
What Your Captain Wishes You Knew
We sat down with one of our captains and asked him to say what he usually keeps to himself. Every answer makes your next charter better, and costs nothing.
Tatiana Mendes
Key West by Sea: The Southernmost Charter
Reef, flats and bridges for 130 nautical miles between Miami and the end of the road. A three-day log of the charter that turns the highway into scenery.
Romina Abreu
Exumas: Chartering the Bahamas' Private Aquarium
Three hundred sixty five cays, water in colors that do not have names yet, and the most famous swimming pigs on earth. The Exumas are what charter was invented for.
Sofía Herrera
The Quiet Art of the Sunset Charter
Four hours, one golden hour, and a city turning its lights on from the water. The sunset charter, hour by hour, and why boarding early is the whole craft.
Valentina Moreau
The Charter Glossary: 25 Words That Say You've Done This Before
Tender, not dinghy. APA, not extras. The vocabulary of charter, decoded in sixteen entries, so your next conversation with a broker starts in the right register.
John Martin
Anatomy of a Flybridge: Why the Upper Helm Wins the Afternoon
The most valuable real estate on any motor yacht is one deck up. A field guide to the flybridge, part by part, and why charters that have one end later.
Mike Silva
Miami to Bimini: The 48-Hour Escape
Fifty miles of Gulf Stream separate Miami from another world. Here is how to spend two days in Bimini without wasting a single hour of them.
Roger Vega
Valentine's on the Water: Saying It Without Saying It
A letter about the quiet romance of a private charter on February 14: why the water does the talking, and what our crews do differently that night.
Tatiana Mendes
Charter Etiquette: Tipping, Shoes and the Unwritten Rules
Nobody hands you a rulebook at the passerelle. The questions guests actually ask us, answered plainly, from tipping to shoes to who controls the music.
Romina Abreu
The Upper Keys: Where Miami Goes to Slow Down
Two days by water from Government Cut to Islamorada: Elliott Key, a reef you can see from the deck, conch fritters at a roadside shack, and a sandbar at the end.
Sofía Herrera
A Year on the Water, Planned: Twelve Months of Miami Charter
Twelve months, twelve different bays. What the water does in South Florida and the Bahamas each month of 2026, and what to book before someone else does.
Valentina Moreau