CRN's 62m Salt opens to charter at EUR 600,000 a week
A private CRN steps into charter
Salt is the 61.98m (203ft) motor yacht that CRN delivered from its Ancona yard in 2020 as hull 137, first named Voice and later renamed. Nuvolari Lenard drew both her exterior and her interior, the latter under Valentina Zannier, and she measures 1,288 GT. She sleeps 12 guests across six cabins, a full-beam master on the owner's deck, a VIP with a private balcony, two doubles and two triples, with a crew of 17. After a refit completed in 2026 she has gone on the charter market for the first time, listed by West Nautical for the South of France, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy from July to September, then the Caribbean and Bahamas over winter.
A boat like this rarely reaches the open charter fleet. Salt spent her first six years fully private, so her hull, machinery and interior carry none of the wear a season-in, season-out charter yacht accumulates. For a broker that low-mileage, one-owner story is the pitch: a fresh 2020 build, reset by a 2026 refit, offered for hire before she has ever taken a paying guest.
EUR 600,000 a week, before the extras
West Nautical lists Salt from EUR 600,000 a week in low season, rising to EUR 650,000 in high season, plus expenses. On a charter of this size those expenses, drawn from an advance provisioning allowance, cover fuel, food, berthing and crew gratuity, and typically add a quarter or more to the base rate. The fee buys a large pool, a beach club, a gym and a full toybox, from SeaBob F5s and an F9 Porsche Edition to twin Sea-Doos, e-foils, paddleboards and a custom tender.
That price sits at a premium to her class. Charter-market data puts the average 60 to 70 metre yacht near EUR 444,000 a week, so Salt is asking well above the band, a gap the refit and the Nuvolari Lenard name are meant to justify. For the owner the maths is simpler: even a handful of booked weeks offsets a running bill that on a 62m routinely reaches into the millions each year.
Why an owner opens the door in 2026
The timing favours the move. Cost guides and brokers put 2026 Mediterranean charter rates roughly 10 to 25 percent above last season, and the eastern Med, led by Greece, Croatia and Turkiye, is drawing record interest, with many yachts reporting final availability already gone. Salt joins a wave of boats returning refit-fresh to the summer fleet.
For owners, chartering a formerly private yacht is a hedge. It turns a depreciating asset with six- and seven-figure annual costs into one that helps pay its own way, and a strong demand year makes the decision easier to take. For the charterer it widens the thin supply near the top of the 60 metre band with a yacht that carries no prior charter history, a combination that tends to book early and hold its rate.