All our experience was fantastic: food, sites, travel, history, tours experienced along the way. The crew was congenial, the captain was fantastic. This was one of the best experiences we all had.

Bad weather, technical problems with the boat, the company's work model, and the local rules made me work hard nonstop. In the end, exhausted, I started to make mistakes. Never again will I rent from a company with a rating as low as 1.3, and I will never sign up for chartering a surveyed boat again. While it's reasonable to follow the rules—such as not trespassing in forbidden areas, keeping the batteries charged, and avoiding overcranking the engines—the experience was ruined by the wrong setup and constant technical issues, which risked/caused us tresspassing these rules. The electrical system malfunctioned, with systems like the toilet pumps or watermaker turning on by themselves or stucking in working mode, and the only way to stop them was by pulling the fuse. There were no sound alerts for the batteries (a feature present on all the other boats I’ve sailed), which is essential for preventing the battery drain. It all made following the requirements over some of the surveyed systems hard or impossible and made me and my crew very nervous. The person who conducted the technical briefing was incompetent and gave incorrect answers to my questions. I had to raise my voice to demand another employee, who did not speak English, but managed to answer my question, essential for fulfilling the charter's requirements. Once we set off,technical problems arose due to an improperly configured electrical system. There was no way to get immediate help (no text channel to communicate with a techniscian). I had to file a support ticket, and to get a technician onboard, we would have had to pay €400 to €900, depending on the urgency, and wait half a day to a full day, as if the problem were our fault. As a result, my crew and I spent hours fixing the sewage system under the sink (which at first day turned out to be clogged), resolving electrical issues, and dealing with water system leaks. The sails were also rigged incorrectly, causing us to miss out on good wind. After rerigging them, the sails worked fine for the rest of the trip though. Overall, disregarding the electrical and water system issues, the Bali 4.3 Hogwarts was a good boat, with perfect interiors, well-rigged sails (after our adjustment), good engines, perfect steering and a slightly glitchy but generally reliable chart plotter.

Everything was great. We just did not find comfortable marinas for every night in the Egadi archipelago for a catamaran. We stood more on an anchor or a buoy.

Excellent deal excellent provider excellent 2-week sailing experience

The boat was great. Well maintained. SaySail was great too. However, Marenauta agreed to have a taxi pick us up from the airport but did not arrange something with the chartercompany. Turkey is beautiful but too expensive. In Fetye the harbor asked € 300 for one night. Restaurants were asking way too much money. A pity because Turkey is a great destination.

Very good experience. Offices are very close to boats, check-in and out procedures were very smooth, check-in was around 15:00 (sooner then expected) so it was enough time for departure in the first day. There is special generator 220V for anchorages, so was not necessary to start engine or use invertors for this. Didn't try to use deposit at all for small things like broken gunch or plate.