Pacific Motor Boat87m11 guests6 cabins
A DISCOVERY charter is strongest when the yacht choice is tied to the route. For larger private groups, celebrations, and corporate hosting, the useful question is how a flagship charter mood built around privacy, hosting, and status fits matching yacht size, cruising area, and guest profile before comparing rates and whether boarding, service, and guest movement are planned before the day starts.
Pacific Motor Boat · Mediterranean · Caribbean · Bahamas · Croatia · Greece
Overview
A DISCOVERY charter is strongest when the yacht choice is tied to the route. For larger private groups, celebrations, and corporate hosting, the useful question is how a flagship charter mood built around privacy, hosting, and status fits matching yacht size, cruising area, and guest profile before comparing rates and whether boarding, service, and guest movement are planned before the day starts.
Charter fit
DISCOVERY is best considered for larger private groups, celebrations, and corporate hosting, with a flagship charter mood built around privacy, hosting, and status. The useful planning angle is a larger group day where deck flow matters, not a generic yacht-listing comparison.
Shortlist logic
DISCOVERY should make the shortlist when the brief needs a larger group day where deck flow matters around Bahamas and Mediterranean. The decision should weigh 87' / 26.51m, 11 guests, 6 cabins, 1931 against route timing and guest flow.
DISCOVERY suits larger private groups, celebrations, and corporate hosting when the brief is a larger group day where deck flow matters. The 11 guests profile gives enough structure to plan the guest list early. 6 cabins also makes overnight suitability easier to judge.
Bahamas can work well for DISCOVERY, but the route needs discipline. The best plan keeps the day focused instead of trying to collect too many stops, especially when boarding, service, and guest movement are planned before the day starts.
Season matters because berth pressure, weather windows, and guest expectations change the charter. peak season dates, when cruising area, berth access, and crew availability should be checked early. A useful shortlist should also explain why compare by guest flow, deck use, and cabin layout before price alone.
a flagship charter mood built around privacy, hosting, and status. For active guests, the onboard recreation list is worth checking before the final route is set. This is where a broker note is more useful than a raw specification list.
Do not compare DISCOVERY on price alone. The stronger comparison is whether another yacht makes Caribbean and Bahamas winter cruising easier, gives the group a better deck rhythm, or solves a port constraint more cleanly.
A good recommendation for DISCOVERY should include one reason to choose it and one condition to verify. That keeps the page useful for real charter planning instead of becoming another listing entry.
Technical profile
Charter price
DISCOVERY is positioned around $60,000 p/week + expenses, before the final charter budget is shaped by APA, tax, fuel, berths, provisioning, delivery and the route requested.
Pacific Motor Boat build, 87m class
The value is in the way the yacht supports guests: cabins, deck space, crew flow, toys, tenders, service rhythm and the ability to make the route feel effortless.
Fuel, provisioning, berths, delivery, local taxes and crew gratuity should be clarified before treating any weekly or day rate as the full charter budget.
Guest fit
Strong
DISCOVERY gives the group a cabin-led base for multi-day planning, with space to balance privacy, meals and time on deck.
Strong
The yacht data includes toys or tenders, so the charter can be planned around swimming, water time and an active anchorage rhythm.
Selective
For event-style use, confirm legal guest capacity, deck flow and whether the yacht is intended for cruising or static hosting.
Review imagery
Interior mood, deck style and service tone should match the client. The right yacht is not only the largest available yacht, it is the yacht guests want to live in.
Charter fit scorecard
5/5
The 87m class gives the yacht its baseline for deck space, cabins and guest flow.
4.5/5
The available toy and tender data supports a more active charter plan.
Check list
Ask for the latest amenities list before comparing against newer yachts.
Visible
Rate context is available, but APA, tax, fuel, berths and delivery still need confirmation.
Comparison
Newer yachts in the same class may offer fresher interiors, newer beach clubs or updated wellness layouts. DISCOVERY should be compared on guest fit, refit status, deck flow, crew programme, toys, range, availability and the route you actually want to run.
The strongest shortlist is not the newest yacht by default. It is the yacht whose layout, service style and operating assumptions match the client, the port and the itinerary.
Profile
When not cruising Discovery has onboard an incredible selection of water toys and accessories for you and your guests to connect with the waters around you. Principle among these are kayaks - a tranquil and relaxing way to pass the time. Discovery offers you and your guests the perfect platform from which to enjoy your next luxury yacht charter. Please enquire for details of her summer and forthcoming winter cruising grounds and availability. This luxury classic yacht for charter is in prime condition to host your next holiday of a lifetime.
The 26.51m/87' classic yacht 'Discovery' by shipyard Pacific Motor Boat offers flexible accommodation for up to 11 guests in 6 cabins. Meticulously preserved, classic pleasure craft Discovery offers an abundance of convivial spaces, both inside and out, that showcases her timeless pedigree build off to perfection.
Discovery is built with a wood hull and wood superstructure. Discovery comfortably cruises at 9 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 12 knots with a range of up to 1,200 nautical miles.
Discovery offers excellent versatility with her six cabin layout, seldom seem in a charter yacht of her size. Built in 1931, She offers guest accommodation for up to 11 guests with a layout comprising three double cabins, two twin cabins and one single cabin.
Onboard
Commercial
$60,000 p/week + expenses
Alaska
$60,000 p/week + expenses
Alaska
Cruising
Mediterranean · Caribbean · Bahamas · Croatia · Greece
Planning notes
Availability
Share your dates, destination, guest count and preferred pace. A charter expert will confirm availability, rate context, APA assumptions and whether DISCOVERY fits the route.
FAQ
Yes, if the route is planned around matching yacht size, cruising area, and guest profile before comparing rates. The broker should confirm dates, boarding point, guest count, and cruising area before treating it as available.
DISCOVERY is strongest for larger private groups, celebrations, and corporate hosting. The final recommendation depends on how the cabins, crew setup, and Bahamas and Mediterranean timing fit the brief.
For DISCOVERY, share the date window, boarding point, day or overnight format, and how formal the onboard service should feel.
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A charter expert stays visible from enquiry to shortlist, with email or WhatsApp follow-up when timing, routes or guest needs change.
We qualify the request, then coordinate with suitable charter broker partners so availability, terms and negotiation are handled through professional charter channels.
The shortlist should clarify the exact yacht, dates, guest count, boarding point, route, price assumptions, inclusions, exclusions and payment conditions.
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