For decades, the arithmetic of yacht ownership was simple and largely unforgiving: you bought a yacht because you loved it, not because it made financial sense. A new build depreciated the moment it left the shipyard. A used yacht bled money in maintenance, crew, berthing, and running costs, with little prospect of recouping any of it. Owning a yacht was, in the truest sense, a luxury — a pleasure to be paid for, not an asset to be managed. Over the last decade, however, Greece has quietly become the proving ground for a very different model, one where owning a professionally crewed yacht can generate real income, offset real costs, and in some cases retain more value than anyone would have predicted ten years ago.
