Day Off

Day Off is a Ferretti 881, a 27-metre flybridge launched in 2006 with exterior lines by Zuccon International Project, and a refit in 2025 has kept her up to date. She sails from Athens, and the detail her agent stresses most is the crew: the same team stays aboard all year. For a guest, that means people who already know the boat, each other and the islands before you arrive, which matters more on a small yacht than on a large one.

Her day revolves around the stern. A large beach platform is where the tender, the jet ski, the two-seat canoe and the underwater scooters go into the water, and where most swims start. Three folding bikes come in handy for reaching a village or a beach that the tender cannot. Higher up, on the flybridge, a pool tub is the obvious place to spend the late afternoon. For longer day trips there is an optional extra: a fast Ribco 44 support boat, built in 2023, that is charged separately.

Inside, the master cabin has windows that run from floor to ceiling, so the sea is in view from the bed. Beds for ten are spread over four cabins, a master, a VIP and two twins, with two Pullman berths on top; parents take the larger rooms and children share the rest. Anti-roll stabilisers make nights at anchor easier, and with a 22-knot cruise she can link the Cyclades without long days at sea.

She is still a 27-metre yacht with six crew, so space is used carefully and ten people will share a lot of it. Groups that need separate living areas for adults and children, or that plan long passages across the Aegean, should look at something bigger. For a week of short hops, long lunches and swims from the platform, she gives a lot for a moderate weekly fee.