Riva Venere 75

The Riva Venere 75 is the most documented boat in our fleet. We publish her build year, 2009, her beam of 5.72 metres and her full cabin arrangement, because for this particular hull we have a verifiable source for all three. Most charter listings in Ibiza publish none of that for any boat.

She is twenty-three metres of Italian flybridge yacht carrying twelve guests with four crew, and she starts at €5,700 for the eight-hour day. Riva is the oldest name in Italian boatbuilding and the detailing shows it: teak across the aft deck and chrome that has been kept the way the yard intended.

Four crew and what they do with the day

Four is a proper crew rather than a skipper with help. It means the day runs to your schedule rather than to the boat’s: food arrives when the group is hungry, the tender heads ashore when somebody fancies a walk, and she moves anchorage when the light asks her to, all without anybody in your party being asked to do anything.

The difference shows most in the transitions. On a single-crew boat every change of plan has a cost in time and effort, so groups tend to stick with the original itinerary. Here there is no friction at all, and days on this yacht routinely end somewhere nobody had thought of at breakfast.

You set the departure inside the standard window and the eight hours are counted from her leaving the berth. Everything aboard is prepared before you arrive, which is the practical meaning of chartering a fully crewed yacht for a single day.

The layout, published in full

Her accommodation runs to four cabins: an owner’s cabin taking the full beam with its own walk-in dressing room, a VIP double, and two twins. Across a day charter those rooms handle changing, proper stowage for bags and an hour away from the heat; what we sell runs in daylight and ends back at the pontoon.

On deck there is a dining table aft under shade, a second seating area up on the bridge with an uninterrupted view forward, and a foredeck lounge that becomes the best place on the boat the moment the anchor is down. Twelve guests spread naturally across those three areas.

Her beam of 5.72 metres is what makes that possible. Width, rather than length, is what determines whether a dozen people can be comfortable at the same time, and this is a wide boat for twenty-three metres.

Who charters her

Groups of ten or twelve who want the day to be looked after. Milestone birthdays, anniversaries, family gatherings that have to work for three generations at once. She is also a frequent choice for guests who want a boat with a name and a history rather than simply a fast hull.

She suits people who intend to eat properly. The aft dining table is a real table, in shade, with crew who can serve at it, and that changes lunch from a picnic into a meal. Groups who want that experience should tell us at the booking stage so it can be provisioned properly.

A Spanish day charter tops out at twelve guests, and her licence reaches that number. Bigger parties want a second boat, something we put together regularly and describe on our page about chartering for twenty people in Ibiza.

Pace and the itineraries that suit her

She is quoted at 32 knots, which at twenty-three metres makes her genuinely quick as well as comfortable. The crossing to Formentera is untroubled, the return in an afternoon breeze is smooth, and a group can reasonably plan a day that includes both the sandbanks and a stop on the Ibiza coast on the way home.

That said, this is not a boat that rewards restlessness. The pleasure of her is in the hours spent at anchor with the flybridge shaded and lunch on the table. Two locations, chosen well, is a better plan than four.

Twenty-three metres does exclude the tightest inlets on the island. The crew will place her in the broader bays where there is swinging room, and where the tender covers whatever last hundred metres you want to swim or walk.

The fuel figure, stated plainly

She uses in the order of 350 litres per hour under way. That is a serious number and we publish it rather than burying it, because a group planning a long day should know what the running cost responds to before they plan it.

What tempers it is the shape of a charter. The engines are only loaded for a fraction of the eight hours; the rest is spent stationary with them off. A day of two anchorages close to home will burn a small share of what a double crossing to Formentera would.

Fuel is calculated at the end and charged on what was used. Everything else, the four crew included, is inside the seasonal figure alongside insurance, towels, snorkels and Spanish VAT at 21%.

Getting the most from the booking

Tell us about the day rather than about the boat. Whether it is a celebration, whether anyone needs shade all afternoon, whether the group would rather eat aboard or ashore. With four crew, almost all of that can be arranged in advance, and almost none of it can be improvised at eleven in the morning.

Bags can be soft or otherwise; there is real stowage on a boat of this size. Towels are supplied for the whole party, so those are unnecessary. Water toys beyond the paddleboard, including kayaks, Seabobs and jet skis, are quoted separately and confirmed before the day.

No qualification is required from any guest. The crew hold the licences and the responsibility for the vessel, and that is included in what you pay. Our page on licences for chartering in Ibiza explains how a crewed day differs from a bareboat rental.

Evening charters timed for sunset can be arranged on request, and are handled case by case because the right departure time moves considerably between May and October.

One thing worth knowing about a Riva of this vintage is that the finish rewards attention. Teak wants rinsing, chrome wants drying, and a boat kept the way this one is kept looks the way it does because somebody spends the morning on it before anybody arrives. That is part of what four crew are for.

Guests notice the detailing before they notice anything on the specification sheet. The joinery, the way the hatches close, the absence of the small rattles that betray a hard-worked charter hull. She is seventeen years into her life and presents as though that were not the case.

Her seasonal rates

The quiet band is May with October, the middle band June with September, and the peak band July with August. Bottom to top on this yacht is €1,700.

The larger step is the €1,200 out of the low band, and only €500 separates September from August. Put differently, if you cannot have May or October then the difference between the middle and peak bands is comparatively small, so pick the weather rather than the price. Our notes on when to charter in Ibiza set out what each month actually delivers.

Comparable yachts

The Riva Perseo 76 is the yard’s larger sport model at €5,900 with the same four crew. The Sunseeker 64 is shorter and steadier at €5,190 with three. Both sit on the Ibiza superyacht page, and the charter guide covers what to expect at this size.

Questions about her