Last updated: August 2026
Looking for the best catamaran charter in Italy? We’ve rounded up the top 10 catamarans available right now—handpicked for their layouts, crews, toys, and overall experience. Whether you’re sailing the Amalfi Coast, Sicily, or Sardinia, these catamarans deliver the space, stability, and freedom that make catamaran charters in Italy one of the smartest ways to explore the sea. Not sure a catamaran is the right call for your route? See our catamaran vs motor yacht guide.
Broker insight
The catamaran market in Italy splits on one question: do you actually want to sail? If yes, we start with VIVA LA VIDA, a true sailing Sunreef 80 priced under the usual bracket. If the honest answer is no, ANIMA is the newest power catamaran here, just under 80 feet, and nothing on board asks you to sail her. And the sleeper here is CARTOUCHE: 95 feet at around 65,000 euros a week, more boat for the money than anything else on the list. The full range runs 35,000 to 90,000 euros, so there is a right answer at most budgets.
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10. SILENT GRACE
SILENT GRACE is the only solar-electric catamaran on this list, and she is here because that changes what a day at anchor sounds like. No generator running through dinner, no engine drone on the way to the next bay. On a boat you are living on for a week, quiet turns out to matter more than most people expect.
She is a 2025 Silent Yachts 62, so this is not an experiment: solar panels across the hardtop feed the batteries, and the electric drives run near silently. The practical upside is fuel you are not burning, which keeps the APA lower than anything else at her size on this page.
She takes 8 guests in 4 cabins with 3 crew, and we have filmed her ourselves along the French Riviera and Sardinia, which is the cruising she suits best. From €40,000 per week.
9. OMBRE BLU3
OMBRE BLU³ is our pick for divers: a sailing catamaran for up to 6 guests and one of the few in Italy that is a registered PADI Dive Centre. That means onboard compressors, real gear, and certification and specialty courses run from the boat, which changes what a week in Sardinia or Sicily can look like when underwater life is the point of the trip.
We also rate her as a place to simply live outdoors. The 41 m² teak aft cockpit takes daybeds and a large dining table, the 21 m² flybridge mixes sun cushions with shade, and the saloon is bright and open. Her three double cabins are ensuite and finished for comfort rather than utility. Beyond the diving there are kayaks, paddleboards, a wakeboard and fishing gear, plus a 5 m Castoldi tender for easy shore runs.
8. REVE BLEU
We visited REVE BLEU at MYBA Sanremo 2025, and she is the service pick among Italy’s catamarans. She is a Lagoon 620 running four crew where most cats this size run three, and you feel it immediately: service is smoother, more present, less stretched. She has even run with a chase boat, which is genuinely rare for a catamaran.
For Italy we would point her at Sardinia and Corsica, her strongest cruising grounds. The flybridge is big and well shaded, with an outdoor cinema for movies under the stars, and the cabins go for color instead of the usual safe beige, which reads more yacht than charter-generic. She also charters Croatia and winters in the Caribbean. For guests who want a polished, properly crewed catamaran with more refinement than average, she is a strong answer.
7. LISA OF THE SEAS
LISA OF THE SEAS is on this list for one clear reason: five proper double cabins. That layout is rare, and it is one of the requests we hear most, especially from five couples traveling together who want equal cabins with no compromises. No twins, no bunks, no drawing straws over who gets the small room.
She is a modern Fountaine Pajot Alegria 67, built in 2020, with generous outdoor spaces and a jacuzzi, so the week is as comfortable as the sleeping arrangements are fair. In Italy we would run her to Amalfi, the Aeolian Islands, and Sardinia, where the rhythm is anchoring, swimming, long lunches, and easy evenings onboard. If cabin equality is the deciding factor for your group, she is the cleanest solution available in Italy right now.
6. CARTOUCHE
We were onboard CARTOUCHE in Sanremo earlier this year, and she remains the value play among Italy’s big cats. At 95 feet she is one of the largest catamarans chartering in Italy, yet at around €65,000 a week she delivers far more yacht than many 80ft Sunreefs sitting a full bracket above her.
Built in 2011 and fully refitted two years ago, she feels fresh and current, exactly the kind of well-refitted older hull we like putting clients on. The flybridge jacuzzi is a highlight in a setup you would normally expect on a motor yacht, and the foredeck trampolines hide a clever swim ladder that drops straight into the water. She sails properly too, and her Med summers and Caribbean winters have built a long record of genuinely happy guests.
5. CECE
CECE is a spectacular one to walk through. Her interior comes from the designer Lissoni, with soft curves, floating beds and cream fabrics that give her a distinctly Scandinavian feel, plus an unusually generous beach deck to match.
She is a 2026-built Bluegame, so she runs as a motor catamaran rather than a sailing one. 3 cabins keep her intimate: this is a boat for 6 guests who want real space per person rather than a full family week. She moves through the Amalfi Coast, Sardinia, Sicily and the French Riviera across the season, so tell us your dates and we will find out where she is.
4. CAT TUA
CAT TUA is a Lagoon Seventy-7 from 2021, and the one we reach for when a group wants full catamaran volume without paying new-build money for it. 8 guests in 4 en-suite cabins, on a hull carrying the deck area of something considerably bigger.
Her hydraulic swim platform is the detail that changes a day. Swim stops and toy launches stop being a production and become something the group does 5 times before lunch, which is what you want anchored off Sardinia with half the party in the water and half still at the table.
Onboard there are 2 Seabobs, 2 electric e-foils, paddleboards and snorkeling gear. We have filmed her ourselves along the Amalfi Coast, Sicily and Costa Smeralda, which is exactly the cruising she was built for. From €77,000 per week.
3. VIVA LA VIDA
VIVA LA VIDA earns her place as the true sailing Sunreef 80 that is priced within reach. Most clients who want an 80ft Sunreef get pushed toward power cats or toward sailing boats priced out of range; she sits in the sweet spot, with real sailing capability and real Sunreef volume but without the ultra-high weekly rate.
In Italy that matters more than it sounds. Routes like Sardinia to Corsica or the Aeolians reward a boat that sails comfortably and quietly on the longer legs instead of motoring everywhere, and our guests notice the difference: less noise, better deck time, better passages. She suits groups who want a big, comfortable catamaran and an actual sailing week rather than anchorage-to-anchorage motoring. In the large luxury cat category, she is the value sailing option we point people to first.
2. ONE PLANET
ONE PLANET is the fully electric catamaran on this list, part of Sunreef’s Eco line and one of the most advanced platforms afloat. The technology is impressive, but what actually changes your week is silence. First-time charterers rarely realise how much generator hum shapes a night at anchor; on ONE PLANET there are long stretches with no generator running at all, just the sea and the breeze.
In Italy that is worth a lot, because the anchorages are close, calm, and busy. In our experience, waking up in silence off Capri or in the Maddalena islands is the detail guests talk about afterwards. Beyond the technology she is simply a very luxurious Sunreef: spacious, modern, beautifully finished, and easy to live on for a full week.
1. ANIMA
ANIMA is the newest boat on this list, a 2025 Fountaine Pajot just under 80 feet, and the one we put in front of a group that wants the yacht to carry the occasion. She recently hosted 70 guests aboard for food and drinks and got it right, which tells you more about her 5 crew than any spec sheet will.
Guests arrive to a welcome gift of a Polaroid and a waterproof camera. It is a small thing, and it is the difference between a crew that serves and a crew that hosts.
She sleeps 8 in 4 cabins, so she is not the pick for maximum beds. What you get instead is deck: a jacuzzi, proper sunpads, and an aft deck running straight off the saloon. The toy list is deep, with SEABOBs, an e-foil, a jetsurf, waterskis, a wakeboard, paddleboards and a kayak, plus a 5.2m Williams jet tender. From €85,000 per week.
