





A 27-metre crewed motor yacht out of Saranda
This 27-metre motor yacht is the corridor's workhorse for guests who want reach — six cabins for twelve, a full crew, and the speed to treat both coasts as one cruising ground from her Saranda base. Where the gulet ambles, she covers the ~12–15 nm strait to Corfu in well under an hour, which makes a genuine two-country day possible: breakfast off Ksamil, lunch in a Corfu north-east cove, back to Saranda for dinner. Her range also opens the Albanian Riviera properly northward — Porto Palermo, and on toward the cliffs and coves below Himara — distances a slower boat would spend half a day reaching. She is a capable overnight boat too, but her signature is the fast, flexible day: pick a coast in the morning depending on the wind, and be there before the maestro fills in.
The Corfu–Saranda strait narrows to about 2 nm at the southern tip and runs ~12–15 nm from town to town; at cruising speed she makes it in roughly forty minutes, so a crossing is a decision, not an expedition.
Crews time departures for the morning calm, when the sea is flat before the north-westerly builds, and use the same window for the run back.
From Saranda she reaches south to the Ksamil islets and Butrint lagoon mouth and north-west to Porto Palermo's landlocked pool in a single easy hop, and her speed brings the Corfu north-east coves — Avlaki, Kalami, Agni — and even Paxos into day range.
A longer overnight lets her run the Riviera up past Qeparo and Himara, coast that a displacement boat rarely sees in a day.
A typical charter starts with a flat-water crossing or coastal run before nine, a mid-morning swim stop in a sheltered north-facing bay such as Kakome, lunch aboard at anchor off Ksamil or in a Corfu cove, and a return leg timed to duck the afternoon chop.
Because she is fast, guests get more swimming and less transit than the mileage suggests.