Photo: Lürssen
Lürssen
Lürssen delivers the 102.4 metre NIXIE
The sixth Lürssen delivery of 2026: a 102.4 metre motor yacht by RWD with a glass pool that hangs over the swim platform and one of the largest beach clubs the yard has built.
The Superyacht Magazine
Everything around the yacht, in numbers
Raneris looks at superyachts the way an owner's captain does: what the boat is for, where it lies, who runs it and what the year costs. Then the marinas, the beach clubs, the hotels and the jets that make the week work.
From the houses
Fresh from the yards and the brokers
What the houses that build, sell and charter superyachts have just announced, read by the Raneris desk with the numbers that matter.
Photo: Sunseeker
Sunseeker
Sunseeker's 134 Superyacht reaches Poole for her fit-out
Engines, shafts and stabilisers are in. Sunseeker has moved its 134 Superyacht along the Dorset coast to Poole for the fit-out, in a hull finish called Extreme Black.
Photo: Burgess
Burgess
Christmas on a charter yacht: what Burgess says to settle early
Ten day minimums, twelve guests at most and the best yachts booked up to a year ahead. What the Burgess charter team advises for Christmas at sea, and what we would add.
The lead
Reading a yacht
The length that lies
Two boats of fifty metres can differ by half in the only measurement that decides how the week feels. It is not on the first page of the brochure.
This week
Marinas
The berth is the hard part
Anybody with the money can buy sixty metres of yacht. Almost nobody can find her a home on the Western Mediterranean coast in July.
Charter Destinations
A charter week, decoded
The rate in the listing is about two thirds of what leaves your account. Here is every line, in the order it appears on the contract.
Crew Services
The captain is the purchase
An owner spends a year choosing a boat and an afternoon choosing the person who will decide what that boat is like to own.
Departments
01 / 11
Superyachts
Length, volume, decks, and what the year costs.
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02 / 11
Sailing Yachts
Rig, range, silence, and the case for canvas.
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03 / 11
Catamarans
Volume, shallow draft, stability and the berth problem.
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04 / 11
Marinas
Where the boat lies, what it costs, and how to read a harbour.
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05 / 11
Yacht Brokers
What a broker does, what a survey finds, what the paperwork costs.
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06 / 11
Crew Services
Roles, hierarchy, salaries, rotation, and hiring the one person who matters.
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07 / 11
Yacht Management
Compliance, accounts, yards, and charter as an offset.
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08 / 11
Charter Destinations
Itineraries, seasons, the two-continent calendar, and what a week really costs.
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09 / 11
Beach Clubs
Where the fleet has lunch, and how to arrive.
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10 / 11
Luxury Hotels
Hotels with a berth, hotels as a base, and the ones you can only reach by boat.
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Private Jets
Aircraft classes, the airports that serve the fleet, and the forty minutes to the passerelle.
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The fleet, drawn to scale
What each ten metres actually buys
Length is the number everybody quotes and the one that explains least. These are the sizes the market is actually built around, the crew each one needs and the guests it can carry without anybody drawing the short cabin.
24 mThe 24 metre line
Where the Large Yacht Code begins and a boat becomes, legally, a small ship.
35 mThe charter workhorse
The most chartered size in the Mediterranean, and the largest boat one captain runs without a deputy.
45 mTwelve guests properly
A window in every cabin, a beach club worth the name and a crew mess out of the guest sightline.
60 mThe owner’s deck
A full beam suite with its own terrace, a tender garage, and rotation on the senior positions.
80 mThe helideck class
Two tenders, a certified pad, a manager ashore and a yard period measured in seasons.
100 mAbove one hundred
A few hundred boats worldwide, and a berth conversation in every harbour on the coast.
Bars drawn to scale against one hundred metres. Crew figures assume a private programme without rotation.
Anatomy of a superyacht
Every yacht is five decisions stacked on top of each other
Pick any of the points. A boat that reads as serious is not serious everywhere, and knowing which five areas carry the week is most of what a first-time charterer or owner needs.
Choose a point
The instruments
Eleven instruments, all working, all offline. Give them a length and a season and they hand back a number.
Running Cost Model
What a yacht of a given length actually costs in a year, line by line.
Superyachts
Charter Week Calculator
Base rate, allowance, tax and the tip, for the week you are actually planning.
Charter Destinations
Crew Planner
Who is on board, what they earn, and what rotation does to the payroll.
Crew Services
Berth Calculator
What a berth costs by the night and by the season, in twenty four harbours.
Marinas
Sail or Motor
The same length, three hull types, one honest comparison.
Sailing Yachts
Passage Planner
Distance, speed, fuel and the watch plan for twenty classic legs.
Catamarans
Purchase Planner
What buying her costs beyond the price, and the paperwork that decides where she can go.
Yacht Brokers
Charter Yield
What a charter programme really nets, and how much of the year it covers.
Yacht Management
Beach Club Matcher
Twenty four clubs, filtered by coast, month, mood and the size of your tender.
Beach Clubs
Shore Base Finder
Hotels with a dock, hotels as a charter base, and hotels for the week off the boat.
Luxury Hotels
Aircraft Selector
Which aircraft, which airport, and how long from the apron to the passerelle.
Private Jets
All instruments
More from the desk
Beach Clubs
Lunch is the itinerary
Ask a charter captain where the week is going and the honest answer is a list of tables. The beach club is the structure the Mediterranean day is built on.
Sailing Yachts
The case for canvas, made honestly
A sailing superyacht is cheaper to run, quieter, and harder in every other respect. Here is the argument with the inconvenient parts left in.
Yacht Management
The yacht as a company
Above forty metres a yacht has a payroll, a compliance regime, an audit and a board meeting. Somebody has to run it, and it is not the owner.
Luxury Hotels
The hotel with a dock
A handful of grand hotels on the Mediterranean have their own tender landing. They are worth more to a yacht than any restaurant on the coast.
Superyachts
What a superyacht costs in a year nobody talks about
The purchase price is the part the buyer researches. The annual bill is the part that decides how long the boat stays in the family.
Yacht Brokers
What ten per cent buys
The commission on a yacht sale has not moved in fifty years. What the broker does for it has changed completely.
The Log
One entry a week, on a Saturday.
One entry a week: the new long read, one boat worth studying, one number worth knowing. No advertising, no tracking, one click to leave.