TYBA Charter Show 2027

For six days every early May, the Turkish Yacht Brokers Association (TYBA) hosts its annual Charter Show at D-Marin Göcek on Turkey’s Turquoise Coast. Running since 1989, TYBA Charter Show is the fourth member of the brokerage industry’s trade-only charter-show quartet — alongside MYBA (Sanremo, Western Mediterranean fleet), the Mediterranean Yacht Show (Nafplio, Eastern Mediterranean Greek fleet), and the Antigua Charter Yacht Show (Falmouth, Caribbean fleet) — and the defining annual showcase of the Turkish charter market to the international broker community.

The 2027 edition runs across 2 – 7 May 2027: Sunday is the welcome and crew-arrivals day, Monday through Friday run the working broker-and-crew programme, with the formal close and prize-giving on Friday evening. The show is trade-only — no public access, no consumer footprint — with around 60–80 yachts on display each year, drawn from the Turkish-flagged fleet (modern Bilgin, Numarine, Mengi-Yay, Vicem, and Sirena motor yachts), plus the gulet fleet (the traditional Turkish two-masted wooden charter yacht, distinctive to the region) and a smaller selection of sailing yachts.

The page below is built around how a charter client should actually use TYBA Charter Show: the show itself is not open to charter clients, but the run-up and post-show weeks at Göcek and across the Turquoise Coast represent one of the best windows of the year to view the Turkish fleet, build relationships with the captains and brokers who will run a charter, and (for clients booking ahead) inspect the actual yachts they intend to charter later in the season. The page covers when and where to plan a charter visit alongside TYBA, what makes the Turkish charter market distinctive, and how a full Turquoise Coast cruising programme works.

The first reason charter clients align a yacht visit with TYBA Charter Show is the chance to see the Turkish charter fleet concentrated in one harbour. Outside of TYBA week, the fleet disperses across the Turquoise Coast (Göcek, Marmaris, Bodrum, Datça, Fethiye) and the wider Eastern Mediterranean — viewing multiple yachts in person typically requires several days of travel between marinas. TYBA week is the one moment of the year when 60–80 yachts are simultaneously inspectable at a single venue. Boatcrowd’s broker partners run private yacht-inspection programmes during and around the show; charter clients with serious booking intent can typically arrange these alongside the formal trade programme.

The second reason is the distinctively Turkish charter fleet itself. Turkey holds three boat-building strengths that aren’t replicated in the Western Mediterranean: (1) the gulet fleet — traditional two-masted wooden charter yachts, typically 25–50 metres, that anchor the Turquoise Coast charter category with no real Western Med equivalent; (2) the modern Turkish-flagged motor yacht fleet built by Bilgin, Numarine, Mengi-Yay, Vicem, and Sirena (Turkey is now the world’s second-largest superyacht-building nation by hull count, behind Italy); and (3) the more affordable price tier at every yacht size compared to the Mediterranean fleet based out of France, Italy, or Greece.

The third reason is the Turquoise Coast cruising region itself. The 1,000 km coastline from Bodrum east to Antalya is one of the most spectacular cruising regions in the Mediterranean — the Twelve Islands archipelago, Cleopatra’s Bath at Göcek, the protected anchorages of Ekincik and Sarsala, the limestone-cliff coves of Kekova and the sunken Lycian ruins. The region is genuinely under-trafficked relative to its quality; for charter clients who have done the standard Greek-and-Italian programmes, the Turquoise Coast delivers a meaningfully different experience.

The fourth reason is the early-May Mediterranean shoulder season. TYBA timing puts the visit at the front of the Eastern Mediterranean charter season — the spring water temperatures rise to 18–21°C through early May, daytime highs 22–26°C, the Meltemi summer wind hasn’t yet settled, and the charter pricing across the region is at shoulder-season levels. Many charter clients book TYBA-week as the opening leg of a 7-to-14-day Turkish charter that extends through the rest of May into the high-season summer.

Booking a Turkish charter against TYBA week splits into two distinct cases: (1) using TYBA week to inspect yachts before booking later in the season — the broker-and-captain access during the show makes pre-booking research materially easier than at any other time of the year; and (2) chartering through the TYBA-week period itself, which is genuinely an off-peak option (early May before the summer Meltemi season settles) with the bonus of yacht concentration in one place.

Practical timeline for the 2027 Turkish charter calendar:

• Twelve months out (May 2026 for a 2027 summer charter): The window for booking the headline gulets (Bodrum-built classics like Halas, Daima, Carpe Diem) and the larger Turkish-flagged motor yachts (Bilgin 263, Numarine 32XP class, Mengi-Yay flagships) for peak July-August charter weeks. The most-decorated yachts are committed during this window through brokers who use TYBA the previous May for client-pitch presentations.
• Six to nine months out (August–November 2026): The window for mid-tier Turkish motor yachts and the wider gulet fleet for peak-summer weeks. Most clients booking through Boatcrowd at this window are already past the TYBA-show inspection stage and committing to specific yachts.
• Three to six months out (November 2026–February 2027): Standard fleet inventory remains for shoulder-season Turkish charters (May, early June, late September). TYBA itself sits inside this window — charter clients booking TYBA-week visits at this stage will see most of the fleet concentrated in Göcek for inspection.
• The TYBA window itself (early May 2027): Genuinely accessible for charter clients. Many of the headline yachts are at D-Marin Göcek for the show but become available for charter immediately following the show close. The week after TYBA (8–14 May 2027) is one of the lowest-pricing and least-crowded charter windows of the entire Turkish year.
• Inside three months of peak-summer: Last-minute by Turkish standards. The headline yachts are typically fully committed for July-August; alternatives include the gulet fleet (gulets historically book closer to date than motor yachts), the smaller Greek-flagged crossover fleet at Kos and Rhodes, or the longer-haul reposition options from Greece.

The Turkish charter coast splits across four principal marina districts: D-Marin Göcek (the TYBA show venue and the most-used charter starting point on the Turquoise Coast), Yalıkavak Marina and Bodrum’s yacht facilities (the western Aegean charter hub), Marmaris (the historic charter base, with the Netsel and Yacht Marina facilities), and Fethiye (the eastern Turquoise Coast alternative). The wider region also holds smaller harbours at Datça, Kaş, and Antalya that anchor specific charter itineraries.

D-Marin Göcek — the TYBA venue

The defining Turquoise Coast charter marina and the TYBA Charter Show venue. D-Marin Göcek handles yachts up to about 60 metres alongside on its outer pontoons, with the inner berths taking the wider gulet-and-motor-yacht fleet from 20-metre yachts upwards. The marina sits at the head of the Twelve Islands archipelago, with the Göcek village walking distance and the Dalaman international airport a 25-minute road transfer. TYBA week locks the marina to trade-only access across the six show days; charter clients booking inspection visits coordinate through Boatcrowd’s broker partners. Outside TYBA week, D-Marin Göcek operates as the busiest charter-yacht turnaround port on the Turquoise Coast.

Yalıkavak Marina — Bodrum peninsula

The headline superyacht marina on the Aegean Bodrum peninsula, opened in 2014 as a flagship D-Marin facility. Handles yachts up to about 80 metres alongside, with full luxury-services infrastructure (refit, technical support, the Bodrum-resort-and-restaurant hospitality programme). About 4 hours by yacht from Göcek along the south-western coast. Practical as the alternative western Turkish charter base, or as the start-or-end of a one-way charter that transits the Turquoise Coast.

Marmaris — the historic charter hub

Turkey’s longest-running charter port — Marmaris’s Netsel Marina and Yacht Marina handle the wider gulet-and-motor-yacht fleet, with the deep natural harbour and the surrounding Marmaris town hospitality footprint. About 3 hours by yacht west of Göcek; the natural alternative starting port for charter clients building a longer Turquoise-Coast-into-Aegean programme.

Fethiye — eastern Turquoise Coast

The Fethiye Marina (and the historic Fethiye old-town harbour) anchors the eastern Turquoise Coast charter footprint. About 1 hour by yacht east of Göcek; the natural one-night stop on a Göcek-to-Kaş charter, with the Calis Beach strip and the Fethiye bazaar walking distance from the marina. Handles charter yachts to about 35 metres alongside.

Twelve Islands archipelago anchorages

The defining cruising water immediately off Göcek — the Twelve Islands archipelago (Yassıca Adaları, Tersane Adası, Domuz Adası, and the smaller islets) lies within a 1-hour cruise of D-Marin Göcek. Most TYBA-week charters use the archipelago as the day-cruise destination during the inspection window. Anchorages at Tomb Bay, Wall Bay, Hamam Köyü, and Cleopatra’s Bath are protected, scenic, and largely uncrowded.

Greek crossover — Kos, Rhodes, Symi

The Greek Dodecanese islands sit immediately west of Bodrum and Marmaris — Kos (1 hour from Bodrum), Rhodes (2 hours from Marmaris), and Symi (closer to Marmaris than to Rhodes). Practical for charter clients running a combined Turkish + Greek charter, or for the small number of yachts that are flagged in Greece but charter into Turkey for TYBA week. Cross-border customs and immigration logistics apply.

The natural way to think about a TYBA-aligned charter is as a six-day show-and-inspection window at Göcek followed (or preceded) by 7-to-14 days of Turquoise Coast cruising. Early May delivers spring shoulder-season conditions across the Eastern Mediterranean — daytime highs 22–26°C, water 18–21°C and warming, and the Meltemi summer wind not yet settled. The cruising programme below is the standard charter footprint that follows from Göcek.

• Twelve Islands archipelago & Göcek Bay. Immediately off Göcek — the headline cluster of small islands and protected anchorages that defines the western Turquoise Coast. Cleopatra’s Bath, Tomb Bay, Wall Bay, Hamam Köyü (the underwater Roman baths), and the Yassıca Adaları cluster all sit within a half-day cruise. The natural three-to-four-day post-show anchor.
• Kaş & the Lycian coast. 60 nm east of Göcek — the small port town of Kaş is one of the most charming on the Turquoise Coast, with the surrounding Lycian-tomb coastline running through Kekova, Demre, and the sunken city of Simena. The natural overnight stop east of Fethiye on a longer programme.
• Kekova & the sunken city. The semi-submerged Lycian-era city of Kekova (Dolichiste) lies just east of Kaş — the natural day-cruise destination for clients running a longer eastern Turquoise programme. The protected Kekova anchorage is one of the most-photographed in Turkey.
• Datça peninsula & the Aegean approach. 60 nm west of Göcek — the Datça peninsula reaches west into the Aegean Sea, with the historic Knidos ruins at its tip. The natural one-to-two-day cruising stop on a Göcek-to-Bodrum charter, or as a quieter alternative to the western Turkish coast.
• Bodrum peninsula. 75–90 nm west of Göcek — the wider Bodrum peninsula and its harbours (Yalıkavak, Tarce, Türkbükü, Türkbükü) anchor the western Aegean Turkish charter footprint. The Bodrum Castle, the headline Yalıkavak Marina-and-Cipriani footprint, and the wider peninsula resort programme all sit within the multi-day cruising window.
• Greek Dodecanese crossings. The Greek islands immediately west of Marmaris-and-Bodrum — Symi (the most-photographed harbour in the Aegean), Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Leros. Practical as a cross-border extension for clients running a combined Turkey-and-Greece programme, with the customs and immigration coordinated through the charter team.

The Turquoise Coast dining footprint is meaningfully different from the Western Mediterranean — smaller in scale, less institutional, with a stronger focus on fresh seafood, Aegean meze, and the village-anchored long-lunch culture that defines Turkish coastal hospitality. The rooms below are the consistent TYBA-week destinations and the wider Turquoise Coast charter-week reservations.

The TYBA-week bar scene at Göcek is genuinely modest — the village is built around the working charter port rather than entertainment, and most TYBA-week social activity runs through the marina restaurant strip and through the on-yacht broker dinners that the show is built around. The wider Turkish bar-and-nightlife footprint sits 3-to-4 hours west of Göcek on the Bodrum peninsula, or further east in the Antalya resort district.

TYBA Charter Show is a working trade event — the social calendar across the six show days is dominated by hosted-on-yacht dinners, captain-and-crew gatherings, and the closed-list broker programme that the show is built around. Public nightlife at Göcek itself is essentially the marina restaurant strip. The wider Turkish nightlife footprint runs west on the Bodrum peninsula and east in the Antalya resort district, with Bodrum genuinely operating at international Mediterranean-resort nightlife scale across the summer charter season.

• On-yacht broker dinners. The defining TYBA-week social programme. Most of the 60–80 yachts in the show host private broker dinners across the show days — the brokerage houses use these as the central client-relationship and yacht-handover programme of the year. Charter clients with broker introductions through Boatcrowd’s partners are typically attached to multiple on-yacht evenings across the show.
• D-Marin Göcek harbour evenings. The marina’s own restaurant-and-bar strip handles the wider show-week public social programme. The marina village hosts a TYBA welcome reception (Sunday evening), the formal close and prize-giving (Friday evening), and a series of supplier-and-sponsor evenings across the week.
• Bodrum peninsula late-evening. 3-to-4 hours by yacht west of Göcek — the Bodrum peninsula runs a full summer-season nightlife programme from May through October. The Türkbükü bay-side beach clubs, the Yalıkavak Marina’s evening programme, and the historic Bodrum old-town harbour bars all operate at full pace from May onwards. Practical for charter clients extending a TYBA-aligned charter west into Bodrum.
• Antalya resort row. 200 nm east of Göcek — the Antalya coast (Kemer, Belek, Side) runs as the Turkish-domestic resort nightlife district, with a higher concentration of nightclubs and resort venues than the western coast. Less frequented by international charter clients but practical for clients running a full-coast Turkish programme.
• Greek Dodecanese alternatives. Symi’s historic harbour, Rhodes’ old town, and the Kos beach-club programme all sit a 1-to-3-hour cross-border passage from Marmaris or Bodrum. Practical as a one-or-two-night extension for clients combining Turkish charter with Greek-side nightlife.

Turkish charter pricing is genuinely the most accessible in the Mediterranean — a 40-metre Turkish-flagged motor yacht typically runs 30–50% lower than the equivalent yacht in the French Riviera or Italian charter markets, reflecting (1) the lower Turkish boat-building cost base, (2) the lower marina, fuel, and operating costs in Turkey, (3) the modest Turkish VAT-on-charter framework, and (4) the wider regional pricing of restaurants, hospitality, and ashore services. The gulet fleet adds another tier below the motor yachts, with traditional charters running 50–70% lower than equivalent-capacity Western Mediterranean motor yachts.

TYBA week itself (early May) is one of the shoulder-season pricing windows of the Turkish year — the cleaner rates of the year compared to peak July-August.

Standard Turkish charters include the yacht, full professional crew (captain, mate, chef, full stewardess and deck team), comprehensive insurance, and use of all on-board equipment and tenders — jet skis, paddleboards, sea bobs, water toys. Most Turkish charter contracts run on an “all-inclusive” basis or on the standard APA framework; gulet charters in particular often quote half-board or full-board all-inclusive rates that include meals and basic beverages.

For motor-yacht charters: APA (typically 30–35% of the charter rate, covering fuel, food, beverages, and dockage), Turkish VAT (currently 18% on most services, though charter activities have specific reduced-rate frameworks — speak with your charter team for the specifics on your selected yacht), and a recommended crew gratuity of 10–15% paid at the end of the charter. For gulet charters: typically a fixed all-inclusive rate plus 5–10% gratuity. Turkish charter activities are typically more cost-transparent than the European equivalents.

The same yachts that command €180,000 in peak July-August at Göcek typically run €90,000-€120,000 in early May TYBA week. The trade-off is the cooler weather (22–26°C daytime vs 30–33°C in August) and the slightly less reliable wind patterns (the Meltemi summer wind hasn’t yet settled). For charter clients prioritising value over weather, TYBA week and the surrounding shoulder-season windows are one of the cleanest Mediterranean charter price points of the year.

The gulet fleet (traditional Turkish two-masted wooden charter yachts) is distinctively Turkish and meaningfully different from the motor-yacht charter experience. Gulets are slower, run a more relaxed itinerary, and operate at the most accessible price tier of any Mediterranean charter format — many gulet charters quote at the €3,000-€7,000-per-person-per-week range across a 6-to-10-cabin gulet. Practical for family-and-extended-group charters where the boat is the destination rather than a means to reach specific anchorages.