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The Mediterranean by boat: how to rent a sailboat for the holidays

2022-06-10T10:18:03.790Z


TRENDS - As a savvy captain or as an amateur crew member, embarking on a monohull or a liveable catamaran is a real success. An original and peaceful way to approach Provence, Corsica, the Côte d'Azur, but also Croatia, Greece and Turkey.


“Free man, you will always cherish the sea.” More than ever Charles Baudelaire's poem is in tune with the times.

“Yachting embodies the strong current travel trends: escape, safety, connection with local tourism, privileged relationship with nature and the much-appreciated possibility of taking your time

,” says Édouard Gorioux, co-founder of Click & Boat, a rental platform between professionals and individuals.

One million subscribers, more than 40,000 boats available worldwide including 9,000 in France and a record booking rate of more than 92% compared to 2021 make it the figurehead of the market.

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“The health crisis has reinforced the attractiveness of boating holidays”

, testifies Loïc Bonnet, founding president of Dream Yacht Charter, which is also at the top of the requests for rental of yachts and sailboats.

More than twenty years after its creation with six boats in the Seychelles, the platform claims 100,000 tenants for 930 monohulls...

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Source: lefigaro

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