Sunseeker 64

The Sunseeker 64 is the first boat on this list where the day stops being about the water alone and starts being about the boat as a place to spend eight hours. Twenty metres, twelve guests, three crew, a flybridge above, a saloon behind glass and an accommodation deck below.

Her seasonal pricing is also the flattest of any crewed yacht we operate. Low season is €5,190 and high season €5,990, a spread of €800 across the whole year, with only €200 separating a September charter from an August one.

What three crew change

Almost everything about the shape of the day. Nobody in your party handles a line, moves a fender or sets out lunch. The anchor goes down while drinks are being poured and the swim ladder is rigged before anyone has asked for it, because there are enough hands aboard for those things to happen in parallel rather than in sequence.

It also changes how quickly the boat can move between plans. With three crew a mid-afternoon decision to shift anchorages costs almost nothing in effort, so the day genuinely responds to how the group is feeling rather than to what was agreed at eleven in the morning.

You name a departure inside the usual band; her eight hours begin at the moment of casting off, not at the moment you arrived. The crew have her prepared and provisioned before you arrive, which is the point at which most guests realise what they have bought.

Somewhere to retreat to

This is the boat for groups where not everyone wants to be in direct sun for eight hours. The interior is air-conditioned, the saloon sits behind glass with a view out, and there are cabins below where somebody can genuinely rest in the middle of the afternoon rather than merely change out of a swimsuit.

The flybridge is the other half of that argument. It catches whatever breeze is going while the cockpit below stays in shade, so on a still August day there is always at least one part of the boat that is comfortable.

Three cabins are configured below. On a day charter their job is changing, resting and stowing, since every charter we sell runs during daylight and returns to its berth at the end of the eight hours.

The groups who book her

Mixed-age families, almost always. Grandparents who want shade, parents who want lunch to happen without organising it, and children who want the bathing platform. She is one of the few boats where all three of those requirements are met simultaneously and nobody has to compromise.

She also suits corporate days and celebrations where a group of twelve needs to eat properly and talk to each other. A cockpit dining table and an interior saloon give you two distinct rooms, which is more than most twenty-metre boats can offer.

Spanish rules put a ceiling of twelve on any day charter, and her licence runs to it. Anything above that means a pair of boats, an arrangement we put together far more often than people imagine, described on our page about taking twenty people out in Ibiza.

Deck by deck

The aft cockpit carries the main dining area and sits directly above the bathing platform, so the swimmers and the diners are close without being in each other’s way. Forward there is sunbathing space, and above it all the flybridge has its own seating and helm.

Separation by level is exactly what a party of twelve needs. Put a dozen people on a single-level boat and they share the same square metres from morning to evening; here they sort themselves out unprompted, and the crew work between the decks without drawing attention.

Aboard as standard: water and soft drinks, beer, wine and cava, olives and nuts and crisps, fruit, a paddleboard, plus towels and snorkels for the party. Kayaks, Seabobs, jet skis and catering beyond the standard list carry a separate quote agreed before the day.

Pace and the routes she suits

She is quoted at 28 knots, which on a boat of this weight is a confident cruising pace rather than a sprint. The Formentera crossing is entirely comfortable and the afternoon return is smooth, because twenty metres of displacement simply does not notice the chop that a twelve-metre hull has to negotiate.

The itineraries that suit her are the unhurried ones. Two anchorages with a proper lunch between them is the classic shape, and there is no advantage in trying to fit more, because the pleasure of this boat is in staying put rather than in covering ground.

Consumption sits around 120 litres per hour under way, which is a notably economical figure for a twenty-metre yacht. Over a typical charter they run for perhaps 1.5 hours all told, the balance of the day being spent at anchor.

What is inside the rate

All three crew, the insurance, the towels and snorkels, Spanish VAT at 21%, and every one of the eight hours. There is no separate crew charge presented at the pontoon and no service fee added afterwards, which is the whole point of publishing a single figure per season.

Fuel is the exception and is charged after the charter against the quantity actually used. On a boat with this consumption and this itinerary profile, that is a smaller number than most people assume when they first see a twenty-metre yacht.

Anything else you would like, from a particular menu to additional water toys, is quoted before the day rather than negotiated on it. Sunset departures are arranged on request.

Preparing for the day

There is proper stowage aboard, so luggage is less of a problem here than on the open boats, but soft bags are still easier for the crew to put away. Towels are supplied for everybody and there is no need to bring your own.

Nobody in the group needs a licence or any prior experience. That sits entirely with the crew and is part of what the rate covers, a distinction we set out on our page about whether a licence is needed to hire a boat in Ibiza.

Because she is crewed, catering arranged through us works better on this boat than on most. Tell us what you would like when you book and the crew will have it aboard and prepared rather than improvised.

Her three rates

May and October form the low band, June and September the middle, and July and August the peak. Across the whole year the movement is €800, which is remarkable for a crewed twenty-metre yacht.

Only €200 separates the middle band from the peak, which means booking her in the busiest fortnight of the summer costs barely more than booking her in September. Very few crewed yachts behave that way, and it makes her one of the better August propositions on this site. Our guide to charter seasons in Ibiza sets that behaviour against the rest of the fleet.

Boats in the same bracket

The Riva Venere 75 is longer with four crew from €5,700. The Predator 66 is the same length for nine guests with one skipper from €3,790. Both appear alongside the rest on our yacht rental page, and the charter guide explains what crew numbers actually change.

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