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Sell your boat Kilada: the quickest route is to leave her exactly where she lies at Kilada and let the buyers come to the pontoon.

Kilada sits on the Argolic coast, a working harbour rather than a resort marina, and one of the few in the Saronic and Argolic with a season that runs year-round rather than closing for winter. That matters if you want your boat marketed and shown in months when other yards have hauled out. The nearest airport is Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), which keeps the journey manageable for buyers flying in from abroad. Berth numbers and maximum length overall are not published by the operator, so we work from what is confirmed on site rather than guessing at capacity.

Selling through us costs five per cent, payable on completion, with nothing to pay upfront. Your broker stays with the boat from the first valuation through to handover, so you are not passed between departments or left explaining the same detail twice. Viewings are private, arranged by appointment, and only offered to buyers whose funds have already been checked, which keeps traffic through the boat to people who are actually in a position to buy her.

Who Is Buying at Kilada Right Now

At Kilada right now, you have four distinct types of buyer walking the pontoons, and each one is looking for something different the moment they step aboard.

Greek owners trading up within the same marina know the berth, know the yard, and know exactly what a boat should smell like below decks. They go straight to the engine room and the bilges, because they have usually owned three boats before this one and they do not waste time on the saloon upholstery. What sends them away is a service history with gaps in it, or a seller who cannot say when the sail drives were last out. They are not sentimental about a boat, even one moored fifty metres from their last one.

Northern European buyers who want a boat already lying in Greece are after something specific: they want to fly in and be sailing within days. They check the flag state, the paperwork, and whether the boat can be handed over with cruising permits in order, because that is the whole point of buying here rather than at home. A boat tied up with expired transit logs or a VAT status nobody can explain will lose them fast, however good she looks in the photographs.

Charter operators are hunting for hulls that already carry Greek commercial paperwork and a known berth, since re-registering a boat for charter from scratch costs time they would rather not spend. They inspect the charter licence first, then the layout for cabin count and guest capacity. If the paperwork does not transfer cleanly, or the berth is not part of the deal, they move on without much discussion.

First time buyers stepping up from something smaller tend to focus on how the boat handles at the helm and whether the systems are simple enough to learn quickly. They walk away from anything that feels over-complicated, or from a broker who cannot explain the boat in plain terms.

The season at Kilada runs year-round, which means enquiries do not bunch up around a single window. Interest holds fairly steady across the year rather than spiking and vanishing with the summer crowds.

Yacht Brokers Kilada

Your boat gets priced against what has actually changed hands, not against the hopeful figures still sitting unsold on the portals. That means going through recent completed sales of comparable boats, the same length, the same age bracket, similar specification, and working back from what buyers actually paid rather than what sellers wished for. A valuation built on wishful listings is a valuation that leaves your boat sitting for a year. Once the price is set, someone needs to go to the berth with a camera and take the photographs and video properly, in the right light, showing the boat as she is rather than as a thumbnail. This is not something you need to arrange yourself, and it is not something to leave to a phone snapshot taken in a hurry. The listing text that goes with it should answer the questions a serious buyer would otherwise ring up and ask: engine hours, last antifouling, known issues, what is included and what is not. A listing that does this properly cuts weeks off the process. From there the listing goes out to the international portals where buyers actually look, not just onto a single website. Enquiries come in, and most of them go nowhere. Part of the job of yacht brokers Kilada does is to filter those enquiries, so you are not fielding calls from people who are curious rather than funded. Only buyers who have been vetted, with funds confirmed, are given an appointment for a private viewing at the berth. After that comes the part owners find hardest to do alone: negotiating the price, managing the survey, and getting the paperwork through the Greek registry and tax authorities correctly, right through to completion. You are not chasing documents, translating clauses, or negotiating against a buyer directly. That work is carried through on your behalf, on the standard five per cent commission on completion, nothing payable up front.

Sell Your Boat Kilada: How We Actually Sell Her

It starts with a phone call and then a visit to your boat at her own berth in Kilada. We look at her as she is, not as a brochure, and give you an honest valuation based on her condition, her equipment and what similar boats are actually selling for.

Once you have a figure you are comfortable with, we agree an asking price together and put it in writing. A listing agreement sets out what we will do, what you can expect from us, and confirms that nothing is payable by you up front.

Next comes photography and video, shot at Kilada, in her own berth and under proper light. This is not a rushed job with a phone. The aim is to show her honestly and well, because the right images bring the right enquiries.

The listing is then published and pushed out to the international portals where serious buyers actually look. From there, every enquiry that comes in is filtered before it reaches you. We do not pass on curiosity. Only buyers who have been vetted, and whose funds are confirmed, are offered an appointment to view her.

Viewings themselves are private, arranged in advance, and held at the berth so a buyer sees her exactly as she lives and works. If there is genuine interest, an offer follows, and we handle the negotiation on your behalf, keeping you informed at every stage rather than leaving you to deal with it directly.

Once a price is agreed, a survey and technical inspection are arranged locally, giving the buyer the assurance they need and giving you a clear, documented record of her condition at the point of sale. Assuming that goes as expected, contracts are signed and the deposit is held properly, in line with standard practice, rather than passed straight to either party.

The final stage is completion. This covers deregistration, the transfer of ownership, and a proper handover at Kilada, so the boat and her paperwork move to the new owner cleanly and without loose ends on your side.

Our fee is five per cent, payable on completion. There is nothing to pay before that point, whatever stage the process reaches.

Why Selling Her Yourself Is a Nightmare

Once you list her yourself, the enquiries start coming in, and most of them go nowhere. You will field messages from people who have no finance in place, no clear timeline, and no real intention of getting to a completed sale. Sorting the genuine buyer from the curious or the idle takes time, and that time is yours to spend, not a broker's.

Every viewing at Kilada means opening her up: unlocking, ventilating, running the systems, making the boat presentable, then doing it all again for the next one. You will drive down for people who decided against a boat before they even arrived, and you will not always know that until you are standing on the pontoon waiting for someone who was never going to buy.

When you do get a serious buyer, you negotiate alone. You have no sold comparables to point to, no evidence of what similar boats have actually made in recent months, so the buyer sets the terms of the conversation and talks you down with confidence you cannot match.

Then there is the money itself. A private deposit sits wherever you choose to put it, with no client account holding it separately and no protection if the deal falls through awkwardly. The paperwork that follows, transfer of title, deregistration, the correct sequence of documents, exposes you to mistakes that are expensive to unpick later.

Meanwhile the boat keeps costing you. Berthing at Kilada, insurance, antifouling, routine servicing, all continue whether she sells this month or not. None of that stops for an unsold boat.

A boat that sits through a whole season unsold costs her owner considerably more than a five per cent commission would have done, once you add the wasted trips, the running costs, and the price given away in a negotiation you had no comparables to support. The commission is paid on completion, with nothing asked for up front, and it is set against all of that.

Contract, Deposit and Handover

Once you accept an offer on your boat, the sale and purchase agreement sets out the price, the timetable and the conditions both sides have agreed to. It is the reference point for everything that follows, so it needs to say plainly what is included, what is excluded, and what happens if either side does not perform.

The buyer pays a deposit to confirm commitment. That money sits in a client account, not with you and not with the buyer, until completion. This protects both parties and keeps the transaction honest.

The agreement is normally subject to survey and, where relevant, private viewing. If the surveyor finds defects, you and the buyer negotiate a settlement: a price adjustment, a repair before completion, or in some cases the buyer walking away. This is normal and expected, not a sign the deal is in trouble.

You will need to show clean title, meaning there is no outstanding finance or claim against the boat. Buyers and their lawyers will ask for this in writing before funds move.

VAT status also needs to be evidenced, showing whether the boat has paid VAT status within the EU. This affects value and matters to buyers who intend to keep the boat in EU waters.

At completion, a bill of sale transfers ownership formally. The boat is deregistered from its current flag and registered under the new one in the buyer's name. If she is kept at Kilada, the berth or mooring agreement is transferred or reassigned, so the buyer knows where the boat will lie and on what terms.

Insurance changes hands on the day of completion. The buyer needs their own cover in place before the boat becomes theirs, and you will want confirmation that your policy ends cleanly at the same point.

All of this happens in a set order, with money moving only when the paperwork supports it. It is not complicated once you have been through it, but it does need to be done properly, step by step, with nothing skipped.

This is general information, not legal advice.

Sell Your Boat Kilada: When to List Her

The season at Kilada runs year-round, and that shapes every decision you make about timing a sale. Buyers do not disappear for the winter here in the way they do in some northern marinas, and enquiries can arrive in January as readily as in June. What changes through the year is not whether people are looking, but how quickly they want to move and what they expect to see when they arrive.

Serious buyers tend to start their search in late winter and early spring, with a view to taking delivery in time for the summer. If you list in February or March, you are talking to people who want to be aboard by May or June, and that gives you the strongest negotiating position of the year. List later and you are competing for a shorter window before attention shifts to next season.

The months that show a boat best are the same months that suit a viewing: good light, calm water, and a marina that is busy rather than shuttered. A boat photographed and shown in spring or early summer looks the way a buyer imagines using her. The same boat shown in November, under grey skies with half the pontoon empty, does not make the same case for herself, regardless of her condition.

Once fixed weather sets in during the autumn, viewings become harder to arrange and buyer interest slows. A boat that has not sold by then is likely to sit through the winter and pick up again with the spring enquiries, so realistic pricing before that point matters more than holding out for a figure that only makes sense in July.

Conditions across the Saronic and Argolic in summer are generally settled, with the kind of steady, moderate weather that suits family cruising and shorter hops between anchorages rather than long open-water passages. That favours boats built for comfortable coastal cruising, manageable by a couple or a small crew, over vessels designed primarily for offshore work. It is worth bearing that in mind when you think about who your buyer actually is.

Sell Your Boat Kilada: Survey, Refit and What to Fix

At Kilada, first impressions start on the pontoon. A boat that has been properly cleaned, inside and out, with the hull polished and the decks cleared, reads as a boat that has been looked after. Buyers notice this before they notice anything else, and it sets the tone for everything that follows.

Tenders, covers and canvas matter more than owners expect. Torn bimini stitching or a tender left deflated on the deck suggests neglect, whatever the condition of the engines underneath. Have the canvas cleaned and repaired, the tender serviced and stowed properly, and make sure everything on deck looks as though someone still cares about it.

Engines are worth spending on, but only up to a point. A full service, done by a competent local agent here at Kilada, with the paperwork to show for it, gives a buyer confidence and gives your broker something concrete to present. Perished hoses, tired batteries and dead instruments are worth replacing too, simply because a surveyor will list them anyway, and it is cheaper and less awkward to deal with them before a survey than during one.

Clear your personal belongings out of lockers and cabins. A buyer needs to see the boat, not the life that has been lived aboard her. This costs nothing and makes a genuine difference to how the boat is perceived at a viewing.

What is not worth doing is a full repaint or a new suite of electronics. Both are expensive, and neither reliably returns its cost at sale. Buyers pay for a boat that is sound and honestly presented, not for cosmetic spend that they would have chosen differently themselves.

On an older boat, a pre listing survey is worth commissioning. It costs money now, but it removes the surprise that can kill a deal after an offer has been made and expectations have been raised on both sides. Knowing the condition of the boat before you list her means there are no unwelcome discoveries later, and that alone can be the difference between a sale that completes and one that does not.

Kilada in Detail

Kilada is a working harbour on the Argolic side of the Saronic, and it has built its name on haul out and craning rather than passing charter trade. Basimakopoulos Shipyard, known locally as Kilada Yard, operates on site and lifts up to 120 tonnes, which brings in motor yachts and heavier sailing boats that smaller yards along the Saronic simply cannot handle. The yard works year-round, so a lift or a haul out is never tied to a narrow window, which matters if you are trying to sell through the winter months as well as the summer season.

Walking the yard and the quay, a buyer sees a working boatyard rather than a marina resort. Cradles and a travel lift stand alongside boats up on stands and others lying afloat, and there is none of the manicured polish you find at a big marina complex. What there is instead is plenty of evidence that serious work gets done here: keels faired, rudders dropped, engines lifted out. For a buyer who knows what they are looking at, that often counts for more than a freshly painted berth.

For a seller, the practical draw is what sits within reach of the yard. Shipwrights, engineers, riggers and other trades work in and around Kilada, and having your boat lifted and blocked here means most survey findings can be dealt with on site rather than trucked off somewhere else. That shortens the gap between an offer and a completed sale, which is worth something to anyone keen to move things along.

Showing a boat at Kilada is straightforward. She can sit ashore or afloat as the survey requires, and a private viewing is arranged by appointment once we have vetted the buyer and confirmed their funds. There is no passing foot traffic to manage and nothing needs staging for effect, since a boat at a working yard is judged on her condition rather than her surroundings.

We handle the sale for five per cent commission on completion, with nothing payable up front, whether she is lying afloat in the harbour or standing on blocks at the yard.

Kilada: official website

Getting Buyers to the Boat: Flights, Ferries and Transfers

Kilada lies within reach of Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), the nearest airport for anyone flying in to see her. That is the fact you need to know, and it is the one we give buyers before anything else is arranged.

We do not leave the transfer to chance or to guesswork. Once a viewing is confirmed we agree the route with the buyer directly, and we do not invent timings, carriers or ferry schedules that we have not confirmed ourselves. What matters to you is that the buyer arrives having been told exactly what to expect, not left to work it out from a website.

A viewing at Kilada is arranged, not improvised. We fix the appointment in advance, and your boat is opened, powered and ready when the buyer steps aboard, not shut up and cold. One named broker attends, someone who knows the specification, the history and the systems, and who can answer a technical question without reaching for a folder.

The buyer gets time on board without another party waiting behind them. That matters more than it sounds. A rushed viewing produces a rushed offer, or no offer at all. A relaxed one gives a serious buyer the chance to look properly, ask what they need to ask, and picture themselves owning her.

Buyers who fly in for a viewing rarely come for one boat alone. Athens gives them access to several options within a short radius, and most will see two or three vessels while they are in the country. That is simply how the economics of the trip work for them, given the cost and time involved in getting here in the first place.

What that means for you is straightforward. Your boat is being viewed in direct comparison with others, sometimes within hours of each other on the same day. She needs to present cleanly and consistently every time a buyer steps aboard, not only on the one day you happened to prepare her. Readiness cannot be occasional, because you rarely know which visit is the one that counts.

Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH): official website

The Range Selling Around Kilada

If your boat sits in the ten to sixteen metre range, you are in the volume market around Kilada and the wider Saronic and Argolic. This is where most transactions happen, and where buyers move fastest once they find the right boat. They tend to be private owners looking for a boat to sail themselves, often trading up from something smaller, and they know roughly what they want before they arrive.

These buyers check the engine hours and service history first, then the state of the rigging and sails. They want to see recent antifouling, a clean bilge, and paperwork that matches the boat in front of them. If your boat is well kept and the records are in order, this is the fastest category to sell in.

Sailing catamarans hold their value better than most other types, and they draw two very different buyers. Private owners buy them for space and stability, particularly for family sailing. Charter operators buy them for the same reasons, but they look harder at structural condition, since these boats will work for a living. Both groups check the same things: rig tension, hull integrity, and whether the interior has been used gently or hard.

Motor yachts and flybridge boats in this area are usually bought for short hops between anchorages and for entertaining at anchor, rather than for long passages. Buyers here are often less technical and more concerned with how the boat presents. They check the generator, the air conditioning, the tender and davit, and whether everything works without fuss. A boat that starts cleanly and runs quietly sells itself.

Larger yachts move more slowly, and there is no way around that. The buyers who do arrive are usually prepared, with finance in place and a clear idea of what they are looking for. They check everything: engine logs, survey history, class certification where it applies, and the full maintenance record. Patience with this category is not optional, but the buyers who come are serious.

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• Yacht brokers Saronic & Argolic - the regional hub for every marina we cover here.
• Sell your boat Porto Heli
• Sell your boat Nafplio
• Yachts for sale in Greece - every current listing.
• How we sell your boat - the full brokerage process and what the 5% covers.

Kilada: Location and Fast Facts

Kilada sits on the Argolic side of the Saronic and Argolic coastline, one of the quieter corners of a stretch of mainland that is otherwise well known to anyone who has chartered or cruised in Greece. The village opens directly onto the Argolic Gulf, giving boats leaving harbour calm, sheltered water rather than open sea from the first mile. From here, a short passage brings you into the wider Saronic and Argolic cruising ground, with its usual pattern of islands and coastal anchorages, without requiring an early start or a long day's run to reach it. Kilada's position keeps it within striking distance of Athens for owners and buyers arriving from abroad, while staying well clear of the congestion that builds up around the busier bases nearer the capital. The nearest airport is Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, ATH, roughly away, which keeps a same day arrival or departure realistic for most viewings. For anyone weighing up a boat kept here, the geography does most of the explaining: sheltered water on the doorstep, a straightforward route out into open cruising grounds, and workable access to international flights, all in a harbour that has not been overtaken by the crowds found further along the coast.

Boats For Sale Through Our Kilada Office

Every listing below is handled by the same brokers who take on the boats owners bring us here: one named broker, full specification, professional photography and private viewings by appointment only.

Azimut 78 Fly for sale 2011 — AOP

2011 · 24.5 m · Porto Carras Marina, Sithonia

EUR 1,800,000

Hallberg-Rassy 53 for sale 2002 — LA PEROUSE

2002 · 16.44 m · Leros

EUR 489,000

Lagoon 46 for sale 2020

2020 · 13.99 m · Olbia

EUR 489,000

Sunseeker Manhattan 66 for sale 2019 — BRIGHT 7

2019 · 20.8 m · Bodrum

EUR 1,650,000

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Sell Your Boat Kilada: Frequently Asked Questions

What does it cost to sell my boat at Kilada?

We charge 5% of the final sale price and it is payable only on completion. There is nothing to pay up front, no listing fee and no photography charge. If she does not sell, you owe us nothing at all.

Do I have to move the boat to sell her?

No. She stays exactly where she lies at Kilada and buyers come to the pontoon. Moving a boat for a sale costs money, adds risk and rarely helps. Her own berth at Kilada is the best showroom she has.

How long does it usually take to sell?

A correctly priced boat at Kilada normally sells within three to six months, and most of that time is spent waiting for the right funded buyer rather than waiting for enquiries. Overpriced boats sit for a year or longer.

Who actually shows the boat to buyers?

One named broker handles your boat from listing to handover. The same person answers the enquiry, qualifies the buyer, meets them at the berth at Kilada and runs the viewing. You are never passed around a call centre.

What paperwork do I need before listing her?

Proof of ownership, the registration document, the VAT status paperwork and invoices for any major works. Missing paperwork is the most common reason a sale collapses late. This is general information and not legal advice, so check your own position.

How do you decide what she is worth?

We look at recent completed sales of the same model, current asking prices, her condition, her hours and her equipment, then set a figure that attracts funded buyers rather than tyre kickers. A survey usually confirms that number rather than changing it.