Yacht charter glossary
Plain-English definitions of the 84+ terms you'll encounter when booking a yacht charter.
- Advance Provisioning Allowance
- AIS (Automatic Identification System)
- Anchorage
- Autopilot
- Bareboat charter
- Beam
- Bora wind
- Bow Thruster
- Broker charter
- Cabin charter
- Catamaran
- Central Agent (CA)
- Charter turnaround day
- Chartplotter
- Check-in day
- Crewed charter
- Croatia cruising permit
- Damage waiver
- Delivery/Repositioning Fee
- Depth sounder
- Displacement
- Draft
- Early bird discount
- EPIRB
- Fin keel
- Final cleaning fee
- Flotilla sailing
- Galley
- Gennaker
- Genoa
- Greek TPP (Trans Port Tax)
- Gulet
- Head (marine toilet)
- High season
- IFR (Inflatable Life Raft)
- In-boom furling
- In-mast furling
- International Certificate of Competence (ICC)
- Keel
- Last-minute charter
- Lazy bag
- Lifting keel
- Low season
- LWL (Length at Waterline)
- Mainsail
- Marina berth
- Meltemi wind
- Mistral wind
- MMSI Number
- MOB Drill (Man Overboard)
- Monohull sailing yacht
- Mooring buoy
- Motor yacht
- MYBA Charter Contract
- Onboard Chef
- Onboard Generator
- Outboard Motor (Tender)
- Power catamaran
- Provisioning
- Radar
- Rudder
- RYA Day Skipper
- Saloon
- Schengen Area sailing
- Security deposit
- Shoulder season
- Skipper
- Skipper license
- Skippered charter
- Spinnaker
- Split provisioning
- Stand-up paddleboard (SUP)
- Tourist tax
- Trade winds
- Transit day
- Transit log
- Trimaran
- V-berth
- VHF radio
- VHF SRC (Short Range Certificate)
- Watermaker
- Wing keel
- Yacht Handover Checklist
- Yacht hostess