Also, look at:  Yacht charter  Bareboat yacht  Bareboat charter	Boat owner The person or company, who owns the boat's titles and "bill of sale".  In legal terms, the owner has the right to sign a charter contract for his boat (or boats) ONLY, compared with a charter agent, who can sign contracts for other people's yachts as well.			related sites
Sidenote A yacht owner can have one or many yachts.  For the purposes of this site, when we refer to an "owner" this is a person who owns only one -or maximum up to three- yachts. For this site, the meaning of the words "booked from the owner" are valid -only- when you will meet this person when you deliver your boat.  It is reasonable that, if one owns more than three yachts, he cannot possibly be in several places -and meet his clients- at the same time, therefore he needs to employ staff and authorize them to do the job.  Except that, when an owner owns many yachts, he is "forced" sometimes to pass some of his bookings -in order to "best serve" the booking plans of his own boats- to other friends or colleagues, who own the same type of yachts as his.  No matter if he makes money -or not- from this "transaction", he is acting as a local yacht charter agent, accepting bookings on other peoples yachts. More info & tips related to bareboats