Yachts for Charter in Saint-Tropez

Between the open-deck day boats and the full-crew superyachts sits this category: forty yachts in the 18 to 35 metre range, built for guests who want a proper crewed vessel without the scale or lead time of a superyacht charter. Day rates start from €3,700, and the spread inside the category is wide — an Arcadia Sherpa 60 at 18.7 metres carries up to 12 guests with a low-slung, beach-club feel, while a Sunseeker 115 at 35 metres or a Princess 64 Fly at 20 metres bring more cabin space, a proper aft deck for dining, and the kind of stability that suits a working lunch as much as a swim stop.

This size bracket is the one corporate groups tend to book for a client lunch on the water — a half-day or full-day charter anchored in the Gulf with the village in view, catering brought aboard rather than served at a restaurant table, and enough deck space to keep a small group comfortable without the vessel feeling like a stage. Privacy here comes from scale, not seclusion: these yachts sit apart from the beach-club tender traffic, at anchor, with the guest list controlled from the outset.

Route-wise, the category covers most of what a Saint-Tropez day or two actually looks like. A morning run to Pampelonne for a tender-in booking at a beach club, an afternoon south toward Cap Taillat for open water away from the anchor field, or an overnight into the Port Grimaud canal for a quieter berth and a walk to the village market the next morning — the same yacht handles all three without needing a different vessel for each leg. Families with older children often take this size toward Cap Taillat for a picnic anchorage rather than a beach club stop, since the shallower run and shorter tender distance suit a slower day.

Booking terms follow the same logic as the rest of the fleet: day rate plus APA to cover fuel, provisioning and berthing, with the fuel side kept modest for Gulf-based days and higher for anything crossing toward the Îles d'Hyères. July and August fill the Gulf anchor field early, so arrival before mid-morning matters for a good spot; June, September and October give the same yachts more room to move between anchorages without booking around other boats. Multi-day charters and single-day bookings run on the same fleet, and guest capacity, layout and tender arrangement are worth checking against the specific yacht rather than the category average before confirming dates.