Provisioning a yacht is the food, drink and consumables a charter yacht carries for the week, and it is one of the few charter costs entirely within your control. On a bareboat it is money you spend yourself; on a crewed yacht it is money the captain spends on your behalf out of an allowance you paid in advance. Either way it is not in the charter rate.
The three ways to do it
Buy it yourself at the base, which is cheapest and costs you the first afternoon. Order a provisioning package from the charter company, which is convenient, more expensive, and arrives aboard before you do. Or hand the job to the crew on a crewed charter, which is not really an option so much as how crewed charters work. Most bareboat parties do a hybrid: a delivered staple order plus a shop for the things they actually want.
What it costs, and the one published figure
No company in this record publishes a provisioning package price. What is published, by Sailing Holidays in Croatia, is the shape of the surrounding costs: fuel at around 100 EUR a week for a sailboat, marina and port fees averaging 450 EUR a week, and tourist tax at 1.35 EUR per person per day. Provisioning sits alongside those as a real weekly line rather than an afterthought, and on a week for six or eight it is comfortably the largest of them.
How provisioning works inside an APA
On a crewed charter the Advance Provisioning Allowance is exactly what its name says: a float paid to the captain before the trip out of which provisioning, fuel, berthing and port charges are paid as they are incurred, reconciled against receipts at the end with the balance returned. It is why a crewed charter fee looks like it excludes everything, because it does, and why the APA is the number to ask about rather than the food budget.
Questions people ask about provisioning yacht
What does provisioning a yacht cost?
No company in this record publishes a package price. It sits alongside the published weekly extras: around 100 EUR of fuel, marina and port fees averaging 450 EUR a week and tourist tax of 1.35 EUR per person per day on Sailing Holidays in Croatia's figures.
Is provisioning included in a charter?
Not in a bareboat rate. On a crewed charter it is paid out of the Advance Provisioning Allowance, a float you pay before the trip and which is reconciled at the end.
Should I order a provisioning package?
It is more expensive than shopping yourself and it saves the first afternoon of the week. Most bareboat parties order staples for delivery and shop for the rest.