Luxury yacht charter is quite simply chartering a luxury yacht. It might be a luxury motor yacht charter or a luxury sailing yacht charter, but either way it is chartering what is considered a luxury Exumas Yacht Charter boat. Luxury by its definition has to be a yacht from the top end of the market.

Luxury yacht is really a general term covering a whole range of boats with no real standard as to what is luxury and what is not. If luxury is relative to size, value and building costs then the most luxurious yachts in the world will be the biggest ones owned by some of the richest people in the world. In contrast the owner of a top of the range sixty feet sailing yacht will also consider his boat luxurious if it contains everything that you could possibly build into such a yacht.

Luxury yachts have their roots after the first world war when wealthy individuals realized the advantages and esteem of owning large private yachts. An early example was the Savarona, launched in 1931 and later acquired by the Turkish Government. After the second world war, a famous luxury motor yacht appeared when the Christina O was converted from a Canadian frigate.

Early luxury sailing yachts were those classed as J class and used for competing in the Americas Cup sailing competition. One of the most famous was the Shamrock owned by the tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton, and only a few were ever constructed. They were owned by wealthy people who lived a luxurious life style on or away from the yacht.

Over the last thirty years there has been a big increase in large luxury yachts which are owned by oil sheiks and wealthy new technology business owners such as Bill Gates. Having said that luxury does not have to be about big, a wealthy stock broker would be just as proud of his eighty foot sailing yacht as Roman Abramovich is of his 557 foot, $450 million mega yacht.