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The 8 destinations on our radar for 2026 — from Maldives overwater villas to Monaco grand prix weekends
Chartering a superyacht is one of the most extraordinary holidays available. Here's everything from choosing the right vessel to understanding charter contracts.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
4 April 2026 · 8 min
The choice between sail and power is as much philosophical as practical. We examine the lifestyle, cost, and experiential differences.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
18 March 2026 · 7 min
Bareboat vs crewed, Mediterranean vs Caribbean, what it actually costs — the honest guide to chartering a yacht
NorwegianSpark Editorial
4 April 2026 · 11 min
Crewed or bareboat, motor or sail — a practical first-timer's guide to chartering a yacht in the Mediterranean.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
18 May 2026 · 10 min
Master bespoke superyacht and luxury catamaran charters. Understand MYBA contracts, Advance Provisioning Allowance (APA), VAT rules, crew tipping, and routes.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
25 March 2026 · 18 min
Three families of boat get chartered for holidays: sailing monohulls, catamarans, and the restored wooden vessels people fall in love with online. They produce genuinely different weeks. Here is how to tell which one is yours before you have paid for the wrong one.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 11 min
One hull leans and one stays flat, and almost everything people argue about — space, privacy, marina bills, anchorages, how it feels to sail — comes out of that single difference. A practical comparison for anyone about to commit a week to one of them.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 11 min
The gulet is the traditional broad-beamed wooden vessel of Turkey's south-west coast, and a gulet week is one of the best-value crewed holidays on the water. It is also widely mis-sold as sailing. What to expect, what to ask, and how to tell a good boat from a tired one.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 11 min
Restored ketches, schooners, pilot cutters and the assorted beautiful survivors of the last century are chartered by people who fell in love with a picture. They are worth it. But an old boat is an old boat, and there are seven questions worth asking before the deposit.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 11 min
The paperwork for taking a boat away without a skipper confuses almost everybody, because four different parties each have a say and none of them is the one you booked with. Here is who decides what, in what order, and exactly what to get in writing.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 11 min
Most charter writing assumes you are taking the whole vessel. A large and growing part of the market sells single cabins on a shared boat instead. It is a genuinely different holiday with genuinely different risks, and it deserves a page of its own.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
You sail your own yacht, but you do it in company, with a professional lead crew planning the route and available when something goes wrong. It is the bridge between a skippered week and a bareboat one — and it is quietly the best first sailing holiday there is.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
Every bareboat charter takes a security deposit against damage to the boat. How it is held, what it covers, what waives it and what quietly voids the waiver are the least-read and most expensive paragraphs in the contract. Here is how the mechanism works.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
Nobody warns you that the most consequential hour of a bareboat charter happens in a supermarket car park before you have even seen the boat. What to buy, what to check first, what breaks, and why the water tank matters more than the wine.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
Nobody books a charter thinking about where the boat will spend each night, and then it turns out to decide the budget, the showers, the dinner and how well anyone sleeps. A plain explanation of the three options and how to mix them.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
A catamaran is the boat most families should charter, and the reasons are structural rather than marketing. But a good family week is built from a dozen small decisions about legs, shade, sleep and safety that no brochure covers.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
One person feeling terrible can define a whole charter week, and it is far more preventable than most crews assume — through the boat, the route, the timing and the seat you choose. What actually helps, and the one thing we will not tell you.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
Chartering with friends is one of the great holidays and one of the great ways to damage a friendship. The problem is never the total; it is the cabins, the kitty, the deposit and the person who does not drink. A practical framework agreed in advance.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
Packing for a boat is not packing for a beach holiday with a boat attached. Stowage is tiny, salt gets into everything, and one wrong item — a wheeled suitcase — becomes a problem the whole crew has to live with for a week.
NorwegianSpark Editorial
6 September 2026 · 10 min
Longer-form guides to chartering, collecting and staying well.
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