Marina PortorosaSailing yacht
Oceanis 35 · 2017
6234 ft
From€1,670/ week
Italy Flotilla Charter
Flotilla charter in Italy: sail your own yacht in a led group on a set route, with live availability. Tell us your week and we answer the same day.
Yachts
Marina PortorosaSailing yacht
Oceanis 35 · 2017
6234 ft
From€1,670/ week
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Oceanis 38.1 · 2018
8338 ft
From€1,796/ week
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Oceanis 38 · 2016
7338 ft
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Oceanis 38 · 2017
7338 ft
From€1,796/ week
CannigioneSailing yacht
Oceanis 38 · 2017
7338 ft
From€1,796/ week
How fixed is the route?
Pre-set, but flexible by ±1 day or ±1 anchorage if the fleet votes. The lead boat's job is to get you to a marina each evening with a berth waiting — that requires planning.
Do I have to do everything with the group?
No. Daily activities are optional. Some couples skip the group dinners; some boats peel off for half a day. As long as you reach the evening marina, you're free.
What if I haven't sailed for a couple of years?
Flotilla is the format. You'll have a refresher with the lead skipper on day 1, and the daily briefings cover anchoring + docking specific to the day's marina.
Can kids come?
Absolutely — flotillas are the most kid-friendly format. Other families in the fleet, evening activities, fleet rhythm (early starts, early dinners) suits them.
When do flotillas run?
June to mid-September in the Mediterranean. Saturday-to-Saturday. Calendar published 6 months ahead — 8-12 per season.
Italy is not one sailing ground. It's a dozen, strung down 1,500km of coast and split between two seas. Sardinia gives you granite headlands and water the colour of gin. Sicily gives you smoking volcanoes and Greek temples above the anchorage. Campania puts you under the Amalfi cliffs with Capri on the horizon. The wind is real here — most afternoons fill in from the north-west — and the harbours still smell of diesel, coffee and grilled fish at six in the morning. You can sail hard passages between islands or drop the hook and not move for three days. Both are Italy.
Sailing in company — the guided group experience
A flotilla is a small group of yachts sailing a set route together, led by a crew on a lead boat. You sail your own yacht, but never alone — a daily briefing, a hand into harbour and someone to call if anything's unclear.
It's the reassuring step up from a skippered week for newer skippers, and a sociable one: fixed departure dates, shared anchorages and a route the lead crew knows cold.