From Florida · 3 nights · Miami or Fort Lauderdale to Miami or Fort Lauderdale

A long weekend from Miami to Bimini

Fifty miles across the Gulf Stream on Friday, stingrays at Gun Cay and the Sapona wreck on Saturday, a day's sport fishing on Sunday, home on Monday. The weekend Florida does.

Planned by the Ahoy Club charter team and reshaped for every yacht and every group we send here.

November - May
4 Days / 3 Nights
Miami or Fort Lauderdale to Miami or Fort Lauderdale
4 days, 3 stops
Family & friends

Best months: November - May
How long: 4 Days / 3 Nights
Start and finish: Miami or Fort Lauderdale to Miami or Fort Lauderdale
The pace: 4 days, 3 stops
Suits: Family & friends

Bimini

Alice Town, North Bimini · 49 nm · 5 h · The crossing, then conch salad at sunset

Board in Miami or Fort Lauderdale in the morning and cross the Gulf Stream over lunch, with the lines out behind for the first mahi-mahi. Clear in at Alice Town, then conch salad made in front of you at Joe's or Stuart's shack, sunset at Sherry's on the west beach with rum and reggae, and a last drink at the Big Game Club bar where Hemingway drank.

Five hours across the Stream, lines out
Conch salad at Joe's
Sunset at Sherry's, a drink at the Big Game Club

Gun Cay and Honeymoon Harbour

Gun Cay, south of Bimini · 10 nm · 1 h · Stingrays and the Sapona wreck

An hour south along the islands, with a stop to snorkel the SS Sapona, a concrete ship wrecked in a 1926 hurricane and sitting in fifteen feet of water, full of fish. Then Honeymoon Harbour on Gun Cay, where the stingrays swim up to the beach and nose round your knees. A day on the banks with the toys, the float-off, and the night in the cove.

Snorkel the Sapona
Stingrays at Honeymoon Harbour
The float-off on the banks

Bimini

Alice Town, North Bimini · 10 nm · 1 h · A day's fishing, then the End of the World

The fishing day. A professional fishing tender and its crew run alongside for the morning off the drop-off: marlin, tuna and wahoo in season, and the galley cooks whatever comes back. Non-fishers have the west beach and the Resorts World pool. The last night at the End of the World Saloon, sand on the floor and no explanation for the ceiling.

Sport fishing off the Gulf Stream drop-off
The catch for dinner
The End of the World Saloon

The idea of the week

The weekend Florida does. Bimini is fifty miles east of Miami on the edge of the Gulf Stream, close enough to see from a tall building on a clear day, and the crossing takes five hours. Hemingway fished here in the thirties; the marlin and tuna still run past the end of the dock, a concrete ship lies wrecked in fifteen feet of water, and stingrays swim up to your knees on the beach at Gun Cay.

Board on Friday morning, cross after lunch, clear in at Alice Town, and spend the weekend on the banks. The captain picks the crossing days: a north wind against the Stream makes it rough, so we move when it is calm. Superyacht charters start on any day of the week, so the route stands on its own. Legs are approximate, at a steady ten knots, and the captain adjusts them for the weather and the tide on the day. The banks are shallow, so the yacht moves in daylight and takes her time.

Weekend
Fishing
From Florida
Short break

What the week costs

The yacht's published weekly rate, plus an Advance Provisioning Allowance, customarily 30 to 40 percent, for fuel, food, drink and berths, plus local VAT where it applies. Every listing shows its rate.

How charter pricing works

Also on this coast

Everything we know about Bahamas: when to go, where the fleet is and the other weeks we have planned.

Open Bahamas

Woven into the week

What the crew arrange along the way

The parts of the week that need a phone call before you arrive: tables, guides, instructors and the toys on deck.

The float-off day

Ellie's ritual. Every toy that floats goes in the water: the pool detached from the boat, the mats, the loungers. The esky goes in with them, and everyone drifts off together for the afternoon with drinks and snacks and nothing to do. Any yacht with floating mats can do it; the ones with a sea pool do it best.

The toys, every day

Jet skis for the creeks and the sandbars, seabobs, paddleboards, wakeboards, the slide if the yacht has one. In the Exumas the water is the whole point, and the crew have the toys in by the time breakfast is cleared.

The beach picnic, on a sandbar or in your own bay

The crew land a table, chairs, umbrellas and a kitchen and cook lunch there, with the yacht in view. Ellie's favourite is the little bay at Pipe Cay, but the Exumas have more picnic beaches than we could list, and a sandbar that only exists at low tide is the Bahamas version.

A day's sport fishing

For keen fishers. We arrange a professional fishing tender with its own fishermen to run alongside the yacht for a half or full day: wahoo, mahi-mahi and tuna off the drop-off into Exuma Sound, bonefish on the flats, marlin off Bimini and Chub Cay in season. Ellie's family do it on every Bahamas trip.

Half or full day, from the anchorage
The Exuma Sound drop-off is minutes away
Bonefishing on the flats for the patient
The galley cooks the catch that night

On to Nassau and the Exumas

With a week instead of a weekend, carry on east from Bimini across the Great Bahama Bank to the Berry Islands and Nassau, and run the Exumas from there. The crossing from Florida replaces the flight.

Bimini to Chub Cay in the Berrys, a day
Chub Cay to Nassau, four hours
Then the Exumas week

The float-off day

The toys, every day

The beach picnic, on a sandbar or in your own bay

A day's sport fishing

Half or full day, from the anchorage
The Exuma Sound drop-off is minutes away
Bonefishing on the flats for the patient
The galley cooks the catch that night

On to Nassau and the Exumas

With a week instead of a weekend, carry on east from Bimini across the Great Bahama Bank to the Berry Islands and Nassau, and run the Exumas from there. The crossing from Florida replaces the flight.

Bimini to Chub Cay in the Berrys, a day
Chub Cay to Nassau, four hours
Then the Exumas week

Yachts

Yachts available in Bahamas right now

Live from our charter list, in a different order every visit so you see the range. Every rate is the real weekly figure from the listing.

Every yacht available here

CORAL OCEAN

Lürssen · 73m · 1994, refit 2026

12 guests | 6 cabins | 28 crew

€650k – 790k

KOJU

Benetti · 37m · 2022

10 guests | 5 cabins | 8 crew

US$160k – 175k

LEVERAGE

Palmer Johnson · 38m · 2003, refit 2023

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

US$120k – 130k

REMEMBER WHEN

Christensen · 49m · 2011, refit 2024

12 guests | 6 cabins | 10 crew

US$230k – 260k

A SALT WEAPON

Ocean Alexander · 35m · 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 6 crew

US$120k – 130k

SEA CLASS

Christensen · 47m · 1997, refit 2024

12 guests | 6 cabins | 10 crew

US$190k – 230k

NO BAD IDEAS

Trinity Yachts · 49m · 2000, refit 2024

12 guests | 6 cabins | 9 crew

US$225k – 250k

NEXT CHAPTER

Benetti · 55m · 2003, refit 2025

12 guests | 6 cabins | 14 crew

US$300k – 350k

KEMOSABE

Westport · 34m · 2007, refit 2022

8 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

US$70k – 80k

BEACHOUSE

Mangusta (Overmarine) · 40m · 2009, refit 2024

10 guests | 4 cabins | 6 crew

€110k – 130k

MAVERICK

Mangusta (Overmarine) · 50m · 2022

12 guests | 6 cabins | 11 crew

US$295k – 320k

ALLORA

Benetti · 37m · 2011, refit 2022

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

Price on request

SYCARA V

Nobiskrug · 68m · 2010, refit 2024

12 guests | 7 cabins | 16 crew

US$650k

STEALTH

Palmer Johnson · 46m · 2010, refit 2022

10 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

US$165k – 180k

INSIEME

Azimut · 32m · 2012, refit 2023

8 guests | 5 cabins | 4 crew

US$63k – 69k

LEGACY

Westport · 34m · 2003, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

Price on request

50 SHADES OF PLAY

AB Yachts · 34m · 2025

10 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

US$105k – 119k

ESCAPE

Hatteras · 35m · 1995, refit 2023

9 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

US$55k – 65k

OCULUS

Numarine · 37m · 2024

12 guests | 6 cabins | 7 crew

US$180k – 210k

SQUALO

Sanlorenzo · 27m · 2018, refit 2022

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

US$58k – 63k

NAILED IT

Viking Yachts · 25m · 2017, refit 2026

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

US$55k

ENTERPRISE

Baglietto · 38m · 2022

10 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

€179k – 224k

INDIGO

Viking Yachts · 28m · 2019, refit 2024

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

US$58k – 75k

ROAMER

Sunseeker · 28m · 2024

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

US$95k – 115k

SCINTILLA MARIS

Damen Yachting · 46m · 2023

10 guests | 5 cabins | 8 crew

Price on request

TEMPTATION

Palmer Johnson · 37m · 2007, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

US$80k – 95k

SECOND LOVE

Westport · 50m · 2010, refit 2025

12 guests | 6 cabins | 10 crew

US$230k – 265k

TOTAL

Mangusta (Overmarine) · 33m · 2006, refit 2020

9 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

US$60k – 65k

NORMA JEAN

Palmer Johnson · 46m · 2009, refit 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 8 crew

US$160k – 180k

GAIL FORCE II

Hatteras · 24m · 2011, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

US$35k – 40k

NEW LIFE

Lazzara · 28m · 2009, refit 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

US$57k

EROS

Custom Line · 37m · 2019, refit 2026

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

US$140k – 160k

DIRT POOR

Trinity Yachts · 49m · 2007, refit 2026

12 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

US$195k – 225k

ADIOS

Sanlorenzo · 29m · 2023

10 guests | 5 cabins | 6 crew

US$90k – 105k

MUCHOS MAS

Crescent Yachts · 44m · 2016, refit 2025

11 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

US$198k – 238k

RENAISSANCE

Hargrave · 35m · 2016, refit 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 5 crew

US$95k – 120k

WABASH

Benetti · 40m · 2018, refit 2025

11 guests | 6 cabins | 7 crew

US$170k – 190k

YOLO

Westport · 40m · 2005, refit 2023

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

US$120k – 138k

HANNAH

Westport · 34m · 2003, refit 2020

9 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

US$65k – 75k

WHITE STAR

Mangusta (Overmarine) · 39m · 2026

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

US$195k – 225k

VIVIERAE II

Nordhavn Yachts · 30m · 2017, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

US$64k – 72k

UNWINED

Westport · 34m · 2005, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

US$69k – 75k

INVICTUS

Delta Marine · 66m · 2013, refit 2020

12 guests | 9 cabins | 19 crew

€650k – 695k

VIRTUE

Benetti · 37m · 2008, refit 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 8 crew

US$91k – 105k

CynderElla

Hargrave · 35m · 2022

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

US$125k – 145k

FAVOR

Crescent Yachts · 39m · 2000, refit 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 6 crew

US$95k – 110k

AWAY

Sanlorenzo · 37m · 2009, refit 2023

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

US$120k – 145k

ARTHURS WAY

Benetti · 44m · 2007, refit 2025

12 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

US$150k – 165k

48 yachts in rotation. The order changes with every visit so no boat is always last.

Back to Bahamas

The other weeks we have planned on this coast, and when to go.

Bahamas All itineraries

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