What does a Palm Beach International Boat Show yacht charter cost, all-in?

A typical charter on a 40-metre yacht for the show week (six nights, including the four show days plus the soft arrival and a Sunday wind-down) runs $215,000–$370,000 all-in. That comprises a base charter fee of around $135,000–$215,000, APA of 30–35%, the show-week berth supplement at Rybovich or equivalent of $14,000–$32,000, and concierge, restaurant programme and private-aviation coordination of $25,000–$50,000. Larger yachts in the 50m bracket move the all-in to $450,000–$740,000; 60m+ yachts move it beyond $1.1m.

Can I berth at Rybovich during show week?

Yes — Rybovich offers transient charter berths through show week, contracted separately from the yacht. Allocation is broker-coordinated and the better positions are taken by the previous autumn. Old Port Cove and Sailfish Marina are the secondary options when Rybovich is full.

How is Palm Beach different from Fort Lauderdale Boat Show?

Three meaningful differences. First, the buyer demographic — Palm Beach is more concentrated on UHNW family-office and principal buyers, with fewer broker-trade attendees. Second, the scale — Fort Lauderdale has roughly twice the in-water inventory, but Palm Beach's quality of buying-side attention per square foot is materially higher. Third, the social calendar — Palm Beach's evening programme on Worth Avenue and at the Breakers is denser and more contested per night than Fort Lauderdale's broader, more dispersed ashore offering. Fort Lauderdale is the volume show; Palm Beach is the relationship show.

When do I need to book for next year's show?

Ten to twelve months ahead for any yacht above 40m. The serious East-Coast charter inventory is taken by the previous autumn; inside six months, you are working with a narrower set of options and Rybovich's better berths are gone.

Can I host brokerage and family-office meetings on board?

Yes — this is the most common single use-case. A chartered yacht at Rybovich gives you a private, controlled environment for the conversations that should not happen on the show floor or in a public restaurant. The yacht's sky lounge or formal indoor dining is the venue for the brokerage follow-ups that compress months of in-person diligence into the four show days.

What's the right yacht size for show week?

For a principal-plus-advisor charter where the yacht is the base, 35–45m. For a host charter with a meaningful Friday-evening reception of forty to sixty guests, 46–58m. For a shipyard or brokerage sponsor activation, 59m+. Most successful Palm Beach charters sit in the 40–50m bracket — large enough to host meaningfully, small enough to keep operational simplicity in a four-day window.

Is the show open to the public, or is it trade-only?

Wednesday evening is a VIP preview. Thursday through Saturday are open to the general public, with trade and VIP access running in parallel. Buying-side charter clients typically concentrate their walk-throughs Wednesday evening through Friday morning, when broker schedules are most flexible and the show floor is less crowded.

How do guests get to Palm Beach?

PBI (Palm Beach International) is the primary airport — 15 minutes from Rybovich, 20 minutes from Palm Beach proper. Excellent private-aviation infrastructure and direct commercial connections to New York, Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. FLL (Fort Lauderdale) is 80 minutes by car and a useful alternative for guests connecting through Caribbean private-aviation legs.

Can I extend the charter into the Bahamas?

Yes, and this is the most popular continuation. Slip lines Sunday morning from Rybovich, transit the Gulf Stream in 6–8 hours, and anchor in Green Turtle Cay, Treasure Cay or Marsh Harbour in the Abacos by Sunday evening for the start of a private decompression week. The Exumas (Highbourne, Staniel, Norman's Cay) are a 10-hour overnight passage from Palm Beach and the deeper-water continuation for clients with a fuller week.

What's the weather in late March?

The most reliable single window of the Florida charter year. Daytime 24–27°C, overnight 17–20°C, humidity moderate, rain rare. The Gulf Stream sea state is steady; the Intracoastal is calm. Aft-deck reception evenings through show week are weather-friendly with very high confidence.

Is the WiFi on board good enough for business use?

Yes. East-Coast US charter yachts run Starlink with redundant 5G failover; bandwidth supports board calls, video conferencing and a connected household. Palm Beach cellular coverage is excellent across the marina and the island, so guests' own devices work without intervention.

Can children come, and what's the programme?

Children are welcome and we have run family charters around show week. The chief stewardess can organise a parallel programme — beach mornings on the Atlantic side of Palm Beach island, paddle-boarding off the swim platform, visits to the Norton Museum or the Society of the Four Arts — that runs alongside the adult calendar.

What about discretion for high-profile guests?

Palm Beach is a structurally discreet environment — the town's resident population is heavily UHNW and the cultural norm is to ignore visible guests rather than to engage. The marinas are controlled environments. For specific principal-protection requirements we coordinate with the guest's existing security director and trusted regional close-protection partners; it is not a default add-on.

What's the cancellation policy?

Yacht charter cancellation follows the MYBA or industry-standard agreement signed at contract — typically 50% deposit non-refundable from signing, balance at six months, full balance non-refundable inside ninety days. Berth contracts at Rybovich and the alternative marinas are non-refundable from allocation. We recommend a specialist charter insurance policy that covers both the yacht and the berth; we introduce a broker at contracting.

Editorial guide · Palm Beach International Boat Show · West Palm Beach

Palm Beach Boat Show Yacht Charter

The four-day late-March show along Flagler Drive where the East-Coast US superyacht economy converges — and the week to base a chartered yacht at the densest concentration of buying-side wealth in the Western Hemisphere.

Dates · Late March, annuallyFrom · $220,000 / weekRead · 17 min

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Editor's introduction

Why Palm Beach International Boat Show belongs on the water

The Palm Beach International Boat Show is, by quiet consensus among East-Coast US superyacht brokers, the most strategically important show of the American calendar. Fort Lauderdale dwarfs it on raw inventory and floor footprint, and Miami sits adjacent to a bigger consumer market, but Palm Beach concentrates a buyer demographic that no other US show comes close to — the residents of South Ocean Boulevard, the El Brillo Way corridor, Jupiter Island and Sloan's Curve, who account for a disproportionate share of US-flagged 30-to-80-metre yacht ownership and an even more disproportionate share of charter spend. Three days of show, walking distance from the houses, no aircraft logistics, no hotel inconvenience — and the conversations that close in the Worth Avenue restaurants in the evenings are the ones that drive the year's North-American brokerage and new-build calendar.

From a charter-broker perspective, Palm Beach show week is the simplest of the year to deliver well. The show inventory — typically 800 boats with a meaningful 30-to-60-metre superyacht component — moors along the West Palm Beach side of the Intracoastal at Flagler Drive, directly across from the island of Palm Beach proper. A chartered yacht based at Rybovich, Sailfish Marina, or one of the transient slips at Old Port Cove sits within a fifteen-minute cruise of the show. The infrastructure is mature, the marinas are professional, the airport (PBI) is private-aviation-friendly, and the on-shore programme (Worth Avenue, the Breakers, the Eau Palm Beach) is dense enough to anchor a four-day social calendar without any logistics gymnastics.

What makes a chartered yacht specifically valuable around show week is that the show floor's hospitality is functional rather than refined. The serious conversations — brokerage walk-throughs of yachts the client is considering buying, family-office advisor meetings, shipyard founder dinners — happen ashore in private dining rooms or on board chartered platforms, not in tented pavilions. A 42-metre chartered yacht moored at Rybovich is a calmer and more controllable hosting environment than any of the on-shore options, and it doubles as the principal's base across the four show days.

Editorially, Palm Beach charter week splits across three briefs. The first is the buying-side principal charter — a serious buyer using show week to compress months of brokerage diligence into four concentrated days. The second is the East-Coast network charter — a principal using the week as the anchor for a US family-and-friends gathering against the backdrop of the show's social calendar. The third is the shipyard or brokerage host charter — a sales team running a co-ordinated week of client introductions across the four show days. This guide covers all three.

Booking note

Palm Beach Boat Show berths commit by November.

Event schedule

Palm Beach International Boat Show day-by-day

Indicative running order based on prior editions. Final times are released by the organisers closer to the date; your concierge will confirm the working schedule for your charter week.

Sunday Mar 22
Show week –4
Yacht arrivals & rig
Exhibitor yachts in position from the prior week. Charter yachts arriving from the Bahamas, from Fort Lauderdale or repositioning from the Caribbean dock through Sunday and Monday. Rybovich, Old Port Cove and Sailfish Marina complete charter berth assignments. The town quiets down briefly before the show week opens.
Wednesday Mar 25
Show day 1 — preview
VIP preview evening
VIP preview evening from 18:00. The soft-launch night for the show — brokerage and shipyard preview receptions on the headline in-water inventory, the marquee opening dinner at the Breakers anchoring the calendar. Most serious buyers attend Wednesday evening as the calmest first walk.
Thursday Mar 26
Show day 2 — opening day
First full show day
Doors open 10:00. The first full show day and the most efficient walking day — schedules are flexible, broker availability is broad, and the headline yachts are still doing thorough 45-minute walk-throughs. Thursday-evening dinners at Buccan, La Goulue, Sant Ambroeus, Le Bilboquet and the Henry on Worth Avenue anchor the night.
Friday Mar 27
Show day 3 — industry day
Family-office & advisor day
Peak attendance for the East-Coast buying community. Family-office walk-throughs concentrate Friday morning; brokerage second-round meetings dominate the afternoon. Friday evening is the densest single dinner-reservation night — Worth Avenue restaurants are fully booked, and the chartered yacht's private dining capacity becomes the calmest alternative.
Saturday Mar 28
Show day 4 — closing day
Final walk & social close
Final show day, 10:00–19:00. Lighter morning walk-throughs, lunch on board for the principal table, an afternoon decision conversation between the principal and the broker on the two or three yachts that have survived the week. Saturday evening is the relaxed close — a quieter dinner at Café L'Europe or back on the yacht.
Sunday Mar 29
Show week +1
Decompression or onward cruising
Departure window. Yachts that have continuation charters slip lines for the Bahamas (the Abacos and the Exumas are three to six hours' cruise from Palm Beach) or up the Intracoastal to Vero Beach and Stuart for a private week of post-show cruising. Yachts disembarking guests do so from the chartered marina, with private-aviation departures through PBI.

VIP hotspots

Where the week actually happens

The berths, terraces, lounges, and tables that define Palm Beach International Boat Show. Access varies: some require a host on the inside, others can be arranged through our concierge.

Marina
Rybovich Superyacht Marina — West Palm Beach
The premier charter and refit marina in Palm Beach. Deep-water slips capable of receiving yachts to 90m+, full superyacht service infrastructure, fifteen-minute cruise to the show entrance. The most reliable berth choice for a chartered yacht across show week.
Marina
Sailfish Marina — Palm Beach Shores
Across the Lake Worth Inlet from Palm Beach proper, accessible by tender or by car. Calmer than Rybovich, useful for yachts that want a quieter base with a five-minute tender into the show or into Palm Beach. The dockside restaurant is a useful informal lunch venue.
Marina
Old Port Cove Marina — North Palm Beach
Forty minutes' cruise north along the Intracoastal. The choice for yachts that want a calmer base further from the show inventory; useful when Rybovich is full and the principal's residence is on the Jupiter Island corridor.
Hotel & dining
The Breakers — Palm Beach
The defining hotel of the island and the host of a number of show-week anchor dinners. The Flagler Steakhouse, HMF (Henry Morrison Flagler), and the Beach Club programme all run through show week; the rooftop bar at HMF is the calmest sunset venue on the island.
Hotel & dining
Eau Palm Beach Resort — Manalapan
Twenty minutes south of Palm Beach proper. Hosts the more discreet brokerage and shipyard private dinners that prefer distance from the show floor. The Breeze Ocean Kitchen and the AngleSea restaurant programme are the rooms to know.
Shopping & dining
Worth Avenue — Palm Beach
The single most contested four blocks of dining and shopping in the South-East US. Sant Ambroeus, Le Bilboquet, La Goulue, Café L'Europe, the Henry, Buccan and Imoto anchor the evening calendar. Reservations across show week need to be in by early February.
Restaurant
Buccan — Palm Beach
Chef Clay Conley's flagship and the contested Thursday-and-Friday-night dinner reservation. The bar room is the late-evening segue when the dinner table has finished. Book six weeks ahead minimum.
Restaurant
Le Bilboquet — Palm Beach
The Palm Beach outpost of the New York and Sag Harbor institution. The default Friday-evening hosted dinner for visiting principals from the New York network. The garden terrace is the room to ask for.
Restaurant
Sant Ambroeus — Palm Beach Royal Poinciana
Milanese, the natural lunch venue for the Worth Avenue and Royal Poinciana shopping circuit. Pairs naturally with an after-lunch espresso and an afternoon walk before the evening show segue.
Restaurant
La Goulue — Palm Beach
The Palm Beach sibling of the long-running Madison Avenue brasserie. The most reliable French alternative when Le Bilboquet is gone and the table wants something other than Italian.
Restaurant
Café Boulud — Brazilian Court Hotel
Daniel Boulud's Palm Beach kitchen. The quieter, calmer, French-fine-dining alternative when the dinner table wants a slower pace than the Worth Avenue rooms. Suited to a principal-and-advisor table of six to ten.
Hotel & bar
The Colony Hotel — Palm Beach
The pink-clad Palm Beach institution. The Bar at the Colony is the late-evening lounge after dinner; the Polo room hosts a number of private dinners across show week. Useful introduction for visitors who want a more traditional Palm Beach setting than the Breakers.

Charter price ranges

What Palm Beach International Boat Show actually costs

Indicative all-in budgets for a seven-night charter timed to the event. Base rates are the yacht only; APA (advance provisioning, typically 30–35%), VAT where applicable, and event-week berth supplements sit on top.

Entry

28–34m motor yacht

Weekly base

From $85,000

Berth supplement

$6–14k for the show week

Best for

6–8 sleeping guests, 12-guest aft-deck reception

A compact base for principal-plus-advisor visits. Sleeps a small principal party, supports a contained hosted dinner on board, and keeps the operational logistics simple. The efficient choice when the yacht is the base and the show floor is the primary purpose of the week.

Core

35–45m motor yacht

Weekly base

$135,000–$260,000

Berth supplement

$14–32k for the show week

Best for

8–10 sleeping guests, 30-guest reception

The default Palm Beach show charter shape. A modern 40-metre Sunseeker, Princess, Sanlorenzo or Heesen with crew of seven or eight, a chef capable of running a Florida-coast charter week, and a berth at Rybovich within fifteen minutes of the show. Hosts a meaningful Thursday- or Friday-evening reception of thirty plus the principal-table working lunches.

Showpiece

46–58m motor yacht

Weekly base

$260,000–$520,000

Berth supplement

$32–75k for the show week

Best for

10–12 sleeping guests, 50-guest reception

The hosting bracket. Twelve guests across six suites, crew of twelve to fourteen, a beach club aft, a sky lounge that converts to a private dining room for sixteen. The bracket where a host-led charter with a meaningful Friday-evening reception starts to make full operational sense.

Statement

59–75m motor yacht

Weekly base

$520,000–$1.15m

Berth supplement

$75–175k for the show week

Best for

12 sleeping guests, 80+ guest reception

The yacht as full hospitality platform. Crew of sixteen to twenty-two, a certified helideck on the larger units in the bracket, formal indoor dining for sixteen, a fitness studio and spa. The platform for a shipyard or brokerage anchor week, or a multi-generational US-family gathering against the backdrop of the show calendar.

Pinnacle

75m+ superyacht

Weekly base

$1.15m–$2.8m+

Berth supplement

$175k–$420k+ for the show week

Best for

12 sleeping guests, 120+ standing reception

A narrow tier of yachts available on the East Coast through the Palm Beach window. Many yachts of this scale that visit Palm Beach across show week are owner-positioned; when charter inventory opens, it goes to relationship clients through a single introduction.

Sample week

A seven-day yacht itinerary around Palm Beach International Boat Show

Day 1 — Tue
Rybovich board, soft evening
Board mid-afternoon at Rybovich. Walking orientation of the marina and the show pavilion footprint, an early evening Champagne service on the aft deck, a quiet dinner on board to set the tone before the show opens tomorrow.
Day 2 — Wed
Show preview evening
Late-afternoon move to the show entrance, walk the in-water inventory through the VIP preview window. The marquee opening evening at the Breakers anchors the calendar; a soft cocktail on the aft deck before for the principal's closest table.
Day 3 — Thu
Working show day, Worth Avenue dinner
First full show day. Five or six scheduled walk-throughs of headline yachts, lunch on board for the principal advisor table, an afternoon brokerage second-round on two yachts. Thursday-evening dinner at Buccan or Le Bilboquet on Worth Avenue.
Day 4 — Fri
Family-office day, hosted reception
Family-office walk-throughs Friday morning. Lunch at Sant Ambroeus or back on the yacht. Host the show-week aft-deck reception 18:30–21:00 for 40–60 East-Coast contacts — the densest networking single function of the week. Dinner on board for the principal table.
Day 5 — Sat
Closing decisions, social close
Final show day walk-through morning. Decision conversation with the broker on the two yachts that have survived the week. A long afternoon on the sun deck, a relaxed closing dinner at La Goulue or Café Boulud, or on board.
Day 6 — Sun
Bahamas decision, or onward cruise
Sunday morning departure decision. Either continue into a Bahamas extension (slip lines for West End and a short cruise across the Gulf Stream to the Abacos), or up the Intracoastal to Stuart for a calmer continuation, or disembark guests for a Monday morning private-aviation departure from PBI.
Day 7 — Mon
Disembark or sail the Abacos
Either disembark mid-morning at Rybovich for PBI departures, or — for clients who extend — anchor in Green Turtle Cay or Treasure Cay for the start of a private Bahamas decompression week, with the show calendar safely behind.

Guest experience

What life on board looks like

Palm Beach show week is, in operational terms, the calmest serious-charter week we run in the Americas. The show is well-organised, the marinas are professional, the weather in late March is reliably 24–27°C and dry, and the ashore programme is dense enough to anchor a four-day social calendar without any of the operational complexity of a Caribbean or Mediterranean week. The crews who do Palm Beach well are typically crews who run a Caribbean winter season followed by a Mediterranean summer, with the Palm Beach show window as the bridge — they know the show inventory, the brokers, the restaurants, and the marina contacts personally.

On board, the most useful single capability through show week is a properly equipped private dining room. Brokerage and shipyard follow-up conversations through the show often want a private, controlled environment for a serious thirty-minute working dinner — not the noise of Buccan on a Friday night, not the structured pace of the Breakers dining room, not a hotel lobby. The yacht's formal indoor dining or convertible sky lounge becomes the venue for these follow-ups, which is one of the practical reasons the 45m-plus bracket consistently outperforms smaller yachts during Palm Beach show week.

Off the yacht, the concierge layer handles the items that are unique to the Palm Beach context — Worth Avenue restaurant reservations that need to be in by February, private-aviation slots into PBI that need to be coordinated with the principal's flight department, Mar-a-Lago and Palm Beach Country Club introductions where relevant (we coordinate with the principal's own membership relationships rather than impose ours), and the careful management of guest movements between Palm Beach island and West Palm Beach across the Royal Park and Flagler bridges (traffic during the Saturday peak of the show is the only meaningful logistical irritation of the week).

Booking timeline

How Palm Beach International Boat Show actually gets booked

T–10 to T–12 months
Yacht longlist & berth strategy
Charter enquiries for the following March show open in May or June of the prior year. Rybovich, Old Port Cove and Sailfish Marina allocations firm up through the autumn; the better berth positions are taken by December. Yacht inventory above 40m on the East Coast across show week is steady but not infinite — early shortlist conversation is essential for the 50m+ bracket.
T–6 to T–8 months
Yacht contracted
Yacht contracted with 50% deposit by end of September for a March show. Berth contract confirmed in parallel through the chosen marina.
T–4 months
Show appointment programme
Show appointments scheduled with the major East-Coast brokerage and shipyard teams — Yachting Partners International, Camper & Nicholsons, Edmiston, Burgess, Northrop & Johnson, Fraser, IYC, Denison, and the headline shipyard presences (Westport, Christensen, Burger, Trinity, plus the European yards' US sales teams). Restaurant reservations confirmed across Worth Avenue and the Breakers.
T–2 months
Guest list & dietary lock
Final guest list with arrival flights, dietary needs and stateroom assignments handed to the chief stewardess and chef. Private-aviation slot at PBI coordinated for principal and guests.
T–4 weeks
Final logistics rehearsal
Captain and chief stew complete a rehearsal of the week with the broker — tender movements, bridge traffic timing, restaurant timings, reception logistics. Branded provisioning ordered if the week is a corporate activation.
Show week
Live concierge layer
On-site concierge from Tuesday through Sunday morning, present at Rybovich, on call to guests via WhatsApp, holding the master schedule and intervening in real time when the day's calendar slips.

Featured yachts

Yachts suited to Palm Beach International Boat Show

Examples from our current fleet. Final yacht and berth are matched to your group and event week at proposal stage.

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Detailed FAQ

Palm Beach International Boat Show charter — questions answered in depth

What does a Palm Beach International Boat Show yacht charter cost, all-in?
A typical charter on a 40-metre yacht for the show week (six nights, including the four show days plus the soft arrival and a Sunday wind-down) runs $215,000–$370,000 all-in. That comprises a base charter fee of around $135,000–$215,000, APA of 30–35%, the show-week berth supplement at Rybovich or equivalent of $14,000–$32,000, and concierge, restaurant programme and private-aviation coordination of $25,000–$50,000. Larger yachts in the 50m bracket move the all-in to $450,000–$740,000; 60m+ yachts move it beyond $1.1m.
Can I berth at Rybovich during show week?
Yes — Rybovich offers transient charter berths through show week, contracted separately from the yacht. Allocation is broker-coordinated and the better positions are taken by the previous autumn. Old Port Cove and Sailfish Marina are the secondary options when Rybovich is full.
How is Palm Beach different from Fort Lauderdale Boat Show?
Three meaningful differences. First, the buyer demographic — Palm Beach is more concentrated on UHNW family-office and principal buyers, with fewer broker-trade attendees. Second, the scale — Fort Lauderdale has roughly twice the in-water inventory, but Palm Beach's quality of buying-side attention per square foot is materially higher. Third, the social calendar — Palm Beach's evening programme on Worth Avenue and at the Breakers is denser and more contested per night than Fort Lauderdale's broader, more dispersed ashore offering. Fort Lauderdale is the volume show; Palm Beach is the relationship show.
When do I need to book for next year's show?
Ten to twelve months ahead for any yacht above 40m. The serious East-Coast charter inventory is taken by the previous autumn; inside six months, you are working with a narrower set of options and Rybovich's better berths are gone.
Can I host brokerage and family-office meetings on board?
Yes — this is the most common single use-case. A chartered yacht at Rybovich gives you a private, controlled environment for the conversations that should not happen on the show floor or in a public restaurant. The yacht's sky lounge or formal indoor dining is the venue for the brokerage follow-ups that compress months of in-person diligence into the four show days.
What's the right yacht size for show week?
For a principal-plus-advisor charter where the yacht is the base, 35–45m. For a host charter with a meaningful Friday-evening reception of forty to sixty guests, 46–58m. For a shipyard or brokerage sponsor activation, 59m+. Most successful Palm Beach charters sit in the 40–50m bracket — large enough to host meaningfully, small enough to keep operational simplicity in a four-day window.
Is the show open to the public, or is it trade-only?
Wednesday evening is a VIP preview. Thursday through Saturday are open to the general public, with trade and VIP access running in parallel. Buying-side charter clients typically concentrate their walk-throughs Wednesday evening through Friday morning, when broker schedules are most flexible and the show floor is less crowded.
How do guests get to Palm Beach?
PBI (Palm Beach International) is the primary airport — 15 minutes from Rybovich, 20 minutes from Palm Beach proper. Excellent private-aviation infrastructure and direct commercial connections to New York, Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. FLL (Fort Lauderdale) is 80 minutes by car and a useful alternative for guests connecting through Caribbean private-aviation legs.
Can I extend the charter into the Bahamas?
Yes, and this is the most popular continuation. Slip lines Sunday morning from Rybovich, transit the Gulf Stream in 6–8 hours, and anchor in Green Turtle Cay, Treasure Cay or Marsh Harbour in the Abacos by Sunday evening for the start of a private decompression week. The Exumas (Highbourne, Staniel, Norman's Cay) are a 10-hour overnight passage from Palm Beach and the deeper-water continuation for clients with a fuller week.
What's the weather in late March?
The most reliable single window of the Florida charter year. Daytime 24–27°C, overnight 17–20°C, humidity moderate, rain rare. The Gulf Stream sea state is steady; the Intracoastal is calm. Aft-deck reception evenings through show week are weather-friendly with very high confidence.
Is the WiFi on board good enough for business use?
Yes. East-Coast US charter yachts run Starlink with redundant 5G failover; bandwidth supports board calls, video conferencing and a connected household. Palm Beach cellular coverage is excellent across the marina and the island, so guests' own devices work without intervention.
Can children come, and what's the programme?
Children are welcome and we have run family charters around show week. The chief stewardess can organise a parallel programme — beach mornings on the Atlantic side of Palm Beach island, paddle-boarding off the swim platform, visits to the Norton Museum or the Society of the Four Arts — that runs alongside the adult calendar.
What about discretion for high-profile guests?
Palm Beach is a structurally discreet environment — the town's resident population is heavily UHNW and the cultural norm is to ignore visible guests rather than to engage. The marinas are controlled environments. For specific principal-protection requirements we coordinate with the guest's existing security director and trusted regional close-protection partners; it is not a default add-on.
What's the cancellation policy?
Yacht charter cancellation follows the MYBA or industry-standard agreement signed at contract — typically 50% deposit non-refundable from signing, balance at six months, full balance non-refundable inside ninety days. Berth contracts at Rybovich and the alternative marinas are non-refundable from allocation. We recommend a specialist charter insurance policy that covers both the yacht and the berth; we introduce a broker at contracting.

Editor's note

Palm Beach show week is the East-Coast US charter week we ship most consistently year over year — the operational profile is calm, the weather is reliable, the social calendar is dense, and the buying-side outcomes for clients who use the week strategically are some of the best in the global show calendar. Charter enquiries for next year's show open in late spring; we recommend engaging by July for the better berth and yacht inventory.

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