Abyssal charters and brokers yachts of 40 to 120 metres for owners and guests who would rather not be a line item on a fleet's calendar. Every broker here has held a watch at sea. None of us earn a cent from the boat — only from you.
We sit on the right side of every survey, flag and yard
A house counted in sea miles, not listings
Abyssal lists no yacht our own captains have not sailed in open water. These six are open for charter now — handed over fully crewed, fully provisioned, and yours from the moment the gangway goes down.
Ice-class hull, a six-seat submersible, and a helideck rated for twin-engine landings. Built for the latitudes other yachts are turned back from — the Antarctic Peninsula, Svalbard's ice edge, the Northwest Passage in the brief weeks it opens.
A glass-bottomed infinity pool, a beach club at the waterline, and an open-air cinema on the sundeck. Twelve guests, twenty-eight crew, and a cellar a Master of Wine sails with and pours from.
A three-masted ketch that crosses an ocean under canvas in near silence. For the charter that wants the wind and not the wake — her log already holds three Atlantic crossings and a Cape Horn rounding.
A diving and research platform with a recompression chamber, two open-water tenders, and a marine biologist aboard for the season. Charter her for the reef you have only read about, with the people who can read it back to you.
The largest on the list. A spa deck, a forty-seat dining room, and a master suite that runs the full forward beam. For the gathering that no room on land could hold and no hotel could keep quiet.
The most-requested charter of the Mediterranean season — quick, close-quartered, and faultlessly crewed for parties up to ten. Antibes by lunch, a Corsican cove no tender chart marks by dusk.
A charter with Abyssal is not a reservation; it is a stretch of someone else's undivided attention. From the first call to the last tender ashore, one team carries every detail so that you carry none of them.
One person owns the charter from end to end — itinerary, clearances, provisioning, and the hundred decisions you never hear about. Reachable in any timezone, and they have sailed the route before they sold it.
Captain, chef, stewards, and deck crew assembled for your guests rather than handed over with the keys. Who sails, and who they have looked after before, is your decision as much as ours.
A private chef and provisioning shaped to your table, restocked from the markets and harbours you pass rather than a freezer loaded in port.
Submersibles, foils, jet tenders, and full scuba kit — serviced, insured, and crewed, with a divemaster for guests who hold a card and tuition for those who do not.
Flag, customs, port agents, and cruising permits arranged weeks ahead. You arrive at the quay and the only paperwork is the guest book.
Most charters start with a coastline you have always meant to reach and a week you have finally cleared. Four steps later, the largest decision left to you is which deck takes the morning coffee.
A call with a broker who asks more than they offer. Where, when, with whom, and what the week is really for — a honeymoon, a board offsite, three generations under one ensign.
Three vessels, never thirty. Each matched to your party, your route, and your budget, with honest notes on what every yacht does beautifully and the one or two things it does not.
A day-by-day itinerary drawn with the captain — anchorages, tables booked ashore, dive sites, and empty days left deliberately empty. Yours to tear up at any hour, even mid-passage.
You step aboard and everything else has already happened. Your voyage director runs the charter from shore so the crew owe their full attention to no one but you.
“We have chartered through every major house in Monaco. Abyssal was the only one whose broker had personally sailed the route they put us on. Twelve days in the Cyclades, and not one thing went unanticipated.”
“I bought my first yacht through Abyssal and sold her through them four years on for more than I paid. They sat on my side of the table the entire time. In this trade, that is rarer than the boat was.”
“Three generations came aboard Sovereign for my father's eightieth. By the second morning the crew had every name, every diet and every old story straight. He calls it the best week of his life — and he has had some weeks.”
Take a vessel by the week, let us represent you as buyer or seller, or hand us the whole boat to run. Each begins with a conversation and one point of contact who stays the same from first call to last.
A fully crewed vessel, chosen and run around your party.
Buy or sell a yacht with a house that never represents the other side.
For owners who would rather keep the days and hand over the duties.
For the Mediterranean and Caribbean high seasons, three to six months — the best vessels and crews are spoken for early. Polar and expedition charters we plan a year out, around ice windows and permits. That said, the voyage desk has put together remarkable charters in under a week when a boat and a gap line up.
The price covers the vessel, her full crew, and our running of the voyage. Fuel, food, drink, port and marina fees run through a separate advance provisioning allowance — usually around a third of the fee — held in trust, reconciled to the receipt, and never marked up by us.
It is the part of the job we like most. Our explorer and expedition vessels carry guests to Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, Raja Ampat, and the far Pacific. If a coastline can be reached without taking a chance with safety, we will find the hull, the crew, and the clearances to put you there.
We never sit on both sides of a sale. Buy or sell through Abyssal and our fee is built so our only stake is your result — the right yacht at the right number, or the strongest exit we can negotiate. We inspect every vessel at sea ourselves and tell you the things a brochure is written to leave out.
Privacy is most of what you are paying for. Guest lists, ownership, itineraries, and terms stay in confidence; crews sign full non-disclosure agreements; the off-market list is shared only under signed mandate. The greater part of what we do leaves no trace anywhere, and that is the point of it.
Name the place you have always meant to reach and the people you would take to it. One broker, one call, and a private voyage starts to take shape — wherever in the world you happen to be reading this.