Yachting
A day on the water, or a week. The harbour decides which is honest. The brief should not pretend that August is empty.
Time on the water is part of a Mediterranean stay more often than it is the whole stay. A day from Mykonos, Antibes or Ibiza — a cove, a swim, a return before the wind — is a complete pleasure. A week aboard is a different life, with a crew, a route, and a port that has to have room.
The house arranges both, and will say which one the dates allow. In July and August the honest answer is sometimes the day, not the week. That is not a reduced version of the request. It is the version that can actually happen.
What we need to know
How many people, and whether any of them are unhappy at sea for more than a few hours. Whether children are aboard. Whether the boat is a base for an event — Monaco in June, the coast in May — or a way of leaving the event behind. Those are opposite boats.
A name on a hull is not the point, and will not be published. Tell us the water, the week, and the temperament of the party. The boat follows.
The harbour is the constraint
Monaco during the Grand Prix, the small Cycladic ports in July, the Côte d’Azur in August: these are spoken for early. If a berth is essential, it is the first line of the brief. If it is a pleasant idea, say that too, so the stay is not built on a maybe.
Crew, provisioning and the tender to shore are part of the same plan as the car that meets the tender. A yacht that delivers you to a quay with no one waiting is only half a journey.
