Yachting USA – September 2019

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and Montenegro. If charter

clients want to book in France

or Italy, then the owner will

consider those inquiries as well,

but Chryssicopoulos says there

has been so much demand for

charters in Greece that the

yacht had no reason to move.

¶ “ Charter is just through

the roof,” he told Yachting in

mid-July. “I was just spending a

week in Mykonos—you should

have seen all the yachts. It

was much crazier than usual.”

¶ And everywhere that Bliss

goes, she brings multiple

tenders with her for heading

ashore, watersports and crew

use. There is a Williams Tur-

bojet 325, an 18-foot Dariel jet

boat that reportedly can hit

35 knots, and a 42-foot Sacs

called Little Bliss. ¶ Also on

board are a pair of Jet Skis, a

Seabob and stand-up paddle-

boards. Those types of toys, a

captain who has been aboard

for eight years and has strong

local knowledge, and the yacht’s

new look inside and out from

the refi t are bringing bookings,

Chryssicopoulos says. And the

yacht also is for sale, which

means potential owners are

getting a sneak peek at the type

of income they might gener-

ate should they keep her on

the charter market. ¶ “She’s

already done fi ve weeks of char-

ter this season alone,” he says

of this past summer, “and she

has another fi ve booked.”

IN THE INTERIOR, THERE WAS

GREEN VELVET ON THE WALLS.

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