Fuel Burn, Honestly: What Each Hull Costs Per Hour
Direct answer
Fuel is paid by you through the APA at cost, so it varies with the hull and how hard you run it. Across the fleet, hourly burn at cruise runs from about 110 litres on a RIB to 950 on a 31m planing yacht. The table below is real consumption, not brochure figures.
Skip ahead — the office handles the rest
Charter pricing pages quote a day rate and go quiet about fuel. That is because fuel does not sit in the rate — it sits in the APA, the advance provisioning allowance you fund and the crew spend at cost on your behalf. Which means the hull you pick, and how hard the captain runs it, sets a real number that nobody advertises. So here it is, straight from the fleet.
Hourly burn at cruise, by hull
| Yacht | Length | Fuel / hour at cruise |
|---|---|---|
| Superhawk 40 | 13 m | ≈ 110 L |
| Frauscher 1212 (Viena) | 11.9 m | ≈ 140 L |
| Vibe (Canados 49) | 15.5 m | ≈ 180 L |
| Cayman 40 | 13 m | ≈ 180 L |
| Juliet 65 | 19.8 m | ≈ 300 L |
| Lady KC 99 | 30.2 m | ≈ 600 L |
| Aya One 90 | 27 m | ≈ 700 L |
| Friendship 115 | 35 m | ≈ 700 L |
| Funky Town 90 | 27.5 m | ≈ 800 L |
| Dark Knight / La Romana 102 | 31 m | ≈ 950 L |
Two things the table doesn't show
First, most of a charter day is spent at anchor, not underway. A boat that burns 950 litres flat-out might use a tenth of that holding station while you swim — so a fast hull is not as thirsty across a real day as the headline suggests. Second, displacement yachts like Lady KC and Friendship sip fuel for their size precisely because they don't plane — you trade speed for economy.
Putting a number on your day
The calculator below estimates a realistic charter cost, including the fuel that lives inside the APA, for the hull and the kind of day you have in mind.
Live estimate
Charter cost calculator
Category
Season
Hours
8 h
Charter
€5,599
Fuel est.
€4,290
APA buffer
€560
All-in estimate
€10,449
/ day · VAT not included
Indicative only. Real quotes include captain's preferred route, VAT band, mooring extras and concierge add-ons. The office returns firm numbers within the hour.
Office note
Rule of thumb: on a typical Ibiza day with two short runs and a long anchored lunch, fuel lands well below the flat-out hourly figure. If your captain is burning the top number, you are crossing to Mallorca — not lunching at Espalmador.
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