What remains unknown—and what should the desk track next?
The major public-data weakness is the gap between marketed supply and completed, comparable transactions. This review did not establish an audited 24m-plus revenue total, US-resident expenditure share, market-wide realised discount series or independently verified live availability.
A repeatable quarterly dataset should request:
- Unique yacht identity and length threshold, with duplicate listings removed.
- Contract count, charter days and completed versus cancelled bookings.
- Advertised fee and agreed fee for the same currency, dates and duration.
- Guest residence separately from broker office and cruising destination.
- Base fee separately from tax, operating expenditure and gratuity.
- Owner-use and maintenance blocks separately from paid charter weeks.
- New-to-charter yachts separately from changes of central agent.
- Quote-to-deposit timing and documented reasons a shortlist failed.
These are proposed research fields, not data the desk currently possesses. Search-demand volumes and claims that particular buyer queries are “trending” were not measured in this pass.
Bottom line: public evidence supports an active, growing charter market and a wide range of asking prices. It does not support a universal discount, an exact US-origin market size or a guarantee of availability. The organiser’s strongest next step is a dated, yacht-specific comparison of fit, cash requirements and unresolved conditions—not reliance on a headline market-growth figure.
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