Taking a skipper in Croatia costs you a published fee and an unpublished cabin, and the second one catches more parties out than the first. It also buys the single hardest part of a Croatian week, which is putting a boat stern-to on a town quay at Hvar in August with an audience and a crosswind.
The fee, published
Sailing Holidays in Croatia publishes 1.260 EUR a week for a skipper, paid separately to the skipper at embarkation rather than included in the charter fee. Against bareboat weeks the same source publishes from about 2.000 EUR for a small sailboat and 4.000 to 6.000 EUR for four and five cabin boats, that is a substantial proportional addition on a small boat and a modest one on a large one.
The cabin, unpublished
The skipper sleeps aboard: usually the forward cabin, sometimes the saloon, occasionally a crew berth on a larger boat. A four-cabin yacht chartered with a skipper is a three-cabin yacht for your party. Ask where they will sleep before you count who is sharing with whom, because this is the arithmetic that produces arguments at the dock.
What the week gains
The parking, first and mostly. A local skipper also knows which bay to be in when the bura is forecast, which town quay will have space at six o'clock and which restaurant will hold a table for a boat. What you give up is deciding when to move, which is worth discussing before you leave if anybody aboard has firm views about mornings.
Questions people ask about croatia yacht charter with skipper
How much does a skipper cost in Croatia?
Sailing Holidays in Croatia publishes 1.260 EUR a week, paid to the skipper at embarkation rather than in the charter fee.
Where does the skipper sleep?
Usually the forward cabin or the saloon, so a four-cabin boat becomes a three-cabin boat for your party.
Is a skipper worth it in Croatia?
If nobody aboard has med-moored before, yes. Croatian evenings are stern-to on town quays in a crosswind, which is the hardest part of the week.