Predator 92

The Predator 92 is a full superyacht sold as a day charter. She is 28.5 metres, licensed for twelve guests, run by two crew, and prepared and provisioned before anybody steps aboard. Low season opens at €9,799 with Spanish VAT already inside the figure.

Her cruising figure is 24 knots, and on a hull carrying this much weight that reads as quiet and settled rather than slow. If you have chartered fast twelve-metre boats before, the difference is not that she takes longer to arrive but that nobody on board notices the journey at all.

The detail that changes an eight-hour day

She has proper cabins below with showers in them. That sounds like a specification-sheet line and it is not. On a charter that runs eight hours in August, washing the salt away and putting on something dry before the return leg is what separates a comfortable arrival from a sticky one.

Very few day charters in Ibiza can offer that, because very few of them are boats designed for people to live aboard. Accommodation runs to three double cabins and a twin with a pullman berth, alongside space for the two crew, and across a day charter those rooms serve for changing, showering and resting, nothing more.

Everything we sell is a daytime charter that leaves the berth in the late morning and returns at the end of the eight hours. What her accommodation buys you is comfort during those hours, not after them.

How the deck works

There is an aft dining area under shade, a flybridge above with its own seating and view, and a bathing platform at the stern wide enough to take the whole group at once. Twelve people can be swimming, eating and sunbathing simultaneously without any of those three activities interfering with the others.

That vertical spread is what nearly thirty metres actually buys. On a shorter yacht a group of twelve occupies one deck and negotiates its use all day. Here they distribute themselves within the first hour and stay distributed, and the crew move between the levels without anyone having to move out of the way.

Two crew is a modest complement for a boat this size and it works because the day is a simple one. They run the vessel and look after the group; what they do not provide is the multi-person service of a four-crew yacht, and the rate reflects that honestly.

The groups she works for

Twelve guests who want scale and calm rather than speed. Families spanning three generations. Groups where somebody genuinely needs to be out of the sun for a stretch of the afternoon and somebody else genuinely wants to be in the water the entire time.

She is also the boat we suggest when the day includes a long lunch. The aft dining area is a real space with shade and a table, and a meal there behaves like a meal rather than like a picnic held on a moving platform.

No Spanish day charter may carry more than twelve, and her licence stops there. Beyond it the answer is a second vessel, something we set up regularly and explain on our page about putting twenty people on the water.

Where she goes and how fast

Formentera is comfortably within the day. The passage takes longer at 24 knots than a sport yacht would need, and it asks nothing of the passengers in return, which for a group this size is usually the better bargain.

Unhurried plans suit her best: a pair of anchorages, a long stop in the middle and an easy run home. There is no advantage in trying to fit three or four, because the pleasure of a boat like this is entirely in the hours spent stationary.

At 28.5 metres she needs the broader bays, and the crew will use the tender to close the last stretch to a beach. That is standard at this size and it means the anchorage is chosen for the water rather than for how tight a spot the boat can squeeze into.

Fuel and what is included

Fuel on her is given per day at around 1050 litres, and something near 600 litres is what a charter with an ordinary amount of running actually draws. It is estimated per day rather than per hour because on a boat this size the hourly rate is a poor guide to what you will actually be charged.

Fuel is calculated once the charter is complete and billed on what was used. Everything else is fixed when you book: the pair of crew, the insurance, the towels and snorkels, Spanish tax at 21%, and the eight hours from first to last.

Anything beyond what she carries as standard, whether that is a kayak, a Seabob, a jet ski or catering to order, is priced ahead and confirmed with you, and stock varies from boat to boat.

Getting the day right

Luggage is not a constraint here, and with showers below it is worth bringing a change of clothes rather than only a swimsuit. Towels are supplied for every guest.

Tell us in advance if the charter marks an occasion or if catering matters to you. With a boat of this size almost anything can be arranged ahead, and the aft dining area is worth using properly rather than treating as a place to eat sandwiches.

No guest is asked for a licence or for sea time. Her two crew carry that entirely and it is priced into the charter, which our page on licences for Ibiza boat hire sets out in full.

Departures fit around your morning inside the usual window, and her clock starts turning as she clears the berth. Sunset charters can be arranged on request.

There is a reasonable question about why a yacht of nearly thirty metres carries only two crew, and the answer is the product rather than the boat. A week aboard with cooking, laundry and turndown needs a larger team. A single day at anchor with lunch and a swim ladder does not.

What that buys you is a rate well below what a four-crew yacht of the same size would command, on a hull that gives up nothing in space or accommodation. If you want table service throughout, we have boats that provide it. If you want the scale without paying for the service, this is the one.

What she costs by season

Her lowest band covers May and October, the middle one covers June and September, and the busiest covers July and August. Across the year the movement on this yacht is €2,900.

The step out of low season is €900 while the step into high season is €2,000, so the middle band is where the value sits on this boat. A September charter costs €166 a head less than the identical day in August. Our notes on picking a month in Ibiza explain why that pattern repeats across the larger yachts.

Yachts at a similar scale

The Lady 99 is the same length with a hot tub and more shade, from €9,999. The Pershing 8X is shorter and far quicker from €11,700. Both sit on the superyacht charter page, and the charter guide covers what changes above ninety feet.

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