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Choosing how, where, and when to push the boat out will be plain sailing now


Paul Ashton is on deck to help you enjoy life on the ocean waves


surprisingly limited. There are, of course, some excellent luxury land-based retreats, but


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even that experience is compromised if your party is of different ages, wants and needs, as you are pretty much fixed in position under one roof. However, if you want a holiday that offers an unmatched personal service, that can cater to everyone, and offers the opportunity to move from place to place with all the logistics taken care of, there is only one thing to consider: a superyacht charter. As an industry sector, chartering is as old as the era of large yachts—


the then Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson spent a summer on charter in the Adriatic in the 1930s to avoid the royal gossips—but it is only relatively recently that the sector has properly matured. The growth in the number of yachts of more than 30m has steadily accelerated since 2000, and that means there is more choice for the client.


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ean-Paul Sartre most definitely had something other than holiday matters in mind when he wrote “Hell is other people”, but it is a notion that probably occurs to many of us when faced with the ordinary anarchy of 21st century vacationing. The options for truly getting away from it all with a group of family and friends are


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