Seven days. One thousand five hundred nautical miles. Three countries. The Monaco-to-Mykonos run is the great Mediterranean classic — and the one charterers most often get wrong.
Days one to three: the Ligurian curtain
Cast off Port Hercule before midday and aim for Portofino by sunset. Day two: a long anchor between the Cinque Terre and the small bay of Tellaro. Day three takes you under Capri's Faraglioni at first light, with the certainty that, by mooring at Marina Grande before 8 a.m., your tender will dock at Da Paolino in time for lunch.
"The mistake is to plan around dinners. Plan around anchorages. Dinners follow." — a 30-year Mediterranean captain
Days four to seven: the Aegean turn
Past Stromboli, the Mediterranean changes character. Greek waters reward those who skip Corfu and aim straight for Antipaxos. Two nights in Hydra. A morning in a Cycladic cove most charterers never reach: Despotiko, an uninhabited island west of Antiparos, where archaeologists are quietly uncovering a 7th-century-BC sanctuary.
By day seven, Mykonos rises out of a haze of dust and bougainvillea. By then your guests have stopped checking their phones — which, in the end, is the only metric that counts.
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