Jun 30, 2026 · 6 min · 9 segments
The yacht charter market has changed dramatically over the last few years, but is the boom really over, or is it simply evolving? In this episode, IYC Charter Consultant Pantelis Stathis joins us to…
Pantelis StathisGuest
Sidney Bitter-LarkinHostSo Pantelis, if I could give you 250K, let's say, to charter this summer, would you spend it in the same way you would've two years ago?
Nothing has really changed, I would say, in the behavior of, uh, the charter clients or the boats themselves, so yeah, I would go for the same thing as I would have done a couple of years ago.
Is the charter market right now more exciting or more complicated than it used to be?
I would say more and more exciting because of the new additions to the fleet, so there's more things to, to explore and see, for sure.
And there's still this perception that the market is booming, but where is that not true anymore?
It is in a way, but however, I think there are so many new boats in the market, so you know, we have more or less the same amount of clients that get divided into more and more boats-
So Pantelis, if I could give you 250K, let's say, to charter this summer, would you spend it in the same way you would've two years ago?
Nothing has really changed, I would say, in the behavior of, uh, the charter clients or the boats themselves, so yeah, I would go for the same thing as I would have done a couple of years ago.
Is the charter market right now more exciting or more complicated than it used to be?
I would say more and more exciting because of the new additions to the fleet, so there's more things to, to explore and see, for sure.
And there's still this perception that the market is booming, but where is that not true anymore?
It is in a way, but however, I think there are so many new boats in the market, so you know, we have more or less the same amount of clients that get divided into more and more boats-
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