Last-minute yacht charter: up to −65% off in 11 countries

Nothing. Alerts are free; you only pay for the charter if you decide to book a boat.

Yes: the Hot deals on the website are open to everyone, no sign-in needed. They list MMK boats with 10% off or more for this month and the next two, and the agent checks them every week. You can narrow them down by country, month, boat type and cabins. With an alert, the agent searches every source for your dates, cabins and budget and sends you a notification or an email.

In Hot, under the line with the number of boats, there is a link: “Prices and discounts by month”. For a country and boat type it shows the next six months: the median € per berth per week, the share of boats with 20% off or more, and how many boat-weeks are listed in MMK. It all comes from the agent's scans: this is what is on sale now, not a forecast. On the website the same section is called Prices.

You answer five questions about your trip. The agent immediately searches for discounted boats that match and sends a digest to your Messages page, by notification or email. After that it searches again every week, every two days in the last month before the trip, and sends only new finds. If two weeks go by with nothing new, it leaves a short note on the same page to say it's still searching.

On MMK and NauSys, the portals where charter companies list their own fleets, and on open aggregators. Every offer shows its source, and the boat name links to it.

Four at the moment: Sailica, GlobeSailor, BoatBooking.one and Mondovela. We only add a booking site after checking its terms of use and robots.txt. The agent doesn't search Boataround, Sailogy, SamBoat or Zizoo, whose terms don't allow it; Yachting.com, whose robots.txt disallows search pages with dates and prices; or Click&Boat, which blocks automated requests. We also don't add sites that merely mirror the boats and prices on MMK and NauSys. The list grows as we check more sites.

In the “Cards” view, aggregator boats have a “Find it via RYC” button on the card. Within a minute, the agent checks whether the same boat is available for the same dates on MMK and NauSys. If it is, you'll see its portal price and can book it through an RYC manager. If not, you can book it on the aggregator's site.

An offer stays in your finds for 10 days after the last check, and the agent checks it again every week. If a check finds that the source no longer lists the boat (say, it has been booked or the discount has ended), the offer disappears straight away.

Yes: the alert card has a Pause button and a red Delete button. Each alert runs until your trip, three months at most; if it ends before the trip, we'll remind you a week ahead and you can renew it in one tap. A paused alert's term keeps running, with no reminder. One alert covers one country and one month, and you can have up to three, for example Croatia in June and Greece in September. A paused alert still takes up one of the three slots.

Once signed in, tap the heart on a boat's photo, in an alert's finds or in Hot. It goes to Saved, which holds up to 10 boats; ended ones count too. If a saved boat gets cheaper, we send you a notification or an email.