Notes from the water and beyond

Two yachts, same length, same price, wildly different days. The lines on a listing that professionals decode before they ever ask about availability.

No lobby, no lanyards, no slipping out early. The off-site that outperforms the conference room, measured in decisions per day.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

White villages, wine-dark water and the meltemi wind that built a sailing culture. Seven days out of Lavrion through Kea, Kythnos, Serifos, Sifnos, Mi

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.

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 at

June to November scares charterers who have not read the data. The professionals charter straight through it. Eight questions guests actually ask, ans

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.

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 insi

Private, unrepeatable, and impossible to photobomb. The charter proposal in seven steps, from telling the crew to the ninety seconds after the yes.

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

Space against soul, stability against sensation. The oldest argument in yachting, settled the only way it can be: by what your week is for.

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 not

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 scene

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

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 cr

Tender, not dinghy. APA, not extras. The vocabulary of charter, decoded in sixteen entries, so your next conversation with a broker starts in the righ

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 late

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.

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.

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

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

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 do