Category: Ownership

The purchase price is the beginning of the conversation, not the end. Annual running costs for a superyacht typically run between 10% and 15% of hull value — and that figure climbs as a vessel ages. This is a plain account of where the money goes.

Charter income rarely turns a net profit on a superyacht, but that is the wrong question. The right question is whether it changes the financial logic of ownership in a meaningful way — and for some owners, it does. Here is how the economics actually work.