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.

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

Home

Miami or Fort Lauderdale · 49 nm · 5 h · Back across the Stream

The captain picks the morning. Five hours back across the Gulf Stream with breakfast under way, alongside in Florida by early afternoon.

Breakfast on the move
Alongside in Florida by early afternoon

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 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

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

SWEET CAROLINE II

Trinity Yachts · 50m · 2009, refit 2021

12 guests | 7 cabins | 11 crew

$19k – 230k

SLEEPOVER

Westport · 34m · 2008, refit 2021

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$65k – 75k

PLAYTIME

Lagoon · 20m · 2018, refit 2021

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

$43k – 49k

BEYOND BEYOND

Riva · 29m · 2019

6 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$95k – 105k

TOP FIVE II

Royal Hakvoort · 61m · 2021

12 guests | 7 cabins | 19 crew

$600k – 650k

LADY J

Palmer Johnson · 43m · 1997, refit 2021

12 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

$109k – 119k

LADY ELAINE

Christensen · 50m · 2008, refit 2024

12 guests | 6 cabins | 9 crew

$200k – 225k

NEVER ENOUGH

Feadship · 43m · 1992, refit 2019

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

$110k – 127k

CARPE DIEM

Azimut · 31m · 2023

10 guests | 5 cabins | 5 crew

$99k – 115k

CHANSON

Christensen · 37m · 1995, refit 2020

9 guests | 4 cabins | 6 crew

$75k – 85k

LADY GRACE

Westport · 28m · 1996, refit 2025

6 guests | 3 cabins | 4 crew

$35k – 40k

KING OF FUN

Northern Marine · 40m · 2005, refit 2022

10 guests | 5 cabins | 8 crew

$120k – 138k

MARY KATHLENE

Westport · 42m · 1989, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 7 crew

$85k – 95k

RISK & REWARD

Crescent Yachts · 37m · 2004, refit 2022

9 guests | 4 cabins | 6 crew

$75k – 85k

CROSSED SABRE

Burger · 44m · 2006, refit 2021

12 guests | 7 cabins | 11 crew

$175k – 195k

SPECTRE

Princess · 29m · 2009, refit 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$50k – 65k

RELENTLESS

Trinity Yachts · 44m · 2001, refit 2019

10 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

$150k – 173k

TCB

Trinity Yachts · 50m · 2008, refit 2022

11 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

$175k – 200k

CAMILLE

Broward Marine · 38m · 2007, refit 2019

10 guests | 5 cabins | 5 crew

$85k – 98k

Feadship · 47m · 1990, refit 2022

12 guests | 6 cabins | 10 crew

$140k – 170k

MEMENTO VIVERE

Westport · 40m · 2005, refit 2021

10 guests | 5 cabins | 7 crew

$120k – 150k

COPAY

Lazzara · 24m · 2003, refit 2020

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

$36k – 41k

PIER PRESSURE

Azimut · 27m · 2020, refit 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 4 crew

$70k – 80k

A PLACE IN THE SUN

Broward Marine · 30m · 1992, refit 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 4 crew

Price on request

SeaQuest

Christensen · 38m · 1999, refit 2025

10 guests | 5 cabins | 6 crew

$85k – 98k

Princess Mila

Fountaine Pajot · 20m · 2022

6 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

$43k – 49k

SOVEREIGN

Burger · 30m · 1966, refit 2020

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

$48k – 50k

Intermarine Savannah · 45m · 2002, refit 2024

10 guests | 5 cabins | 9 crew

$145k – 167k

OCEAN VIEW

Gulf Craft · 32m · 2022

12 guests | 5 cabins | 5 crew

€110k

SAINT

Sirena Yachts · 27m · 2021

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$85k – 98k

Giuli

Sunseeker · 23m · 2000

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

$34k – 44k

PILOT LOUNGE

Horizon · 28m · 2015, refit 2024

8 guests | 4 cabins | 3 crew

$48k – 52k

MIDORI

Sunreef Yachts · 21m · 2016, refit 2026

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$44k – 48k

NOMADA

Mochi Craft · 24m · 2010, refit 2025

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$50k – 55k

Andiamo

Symbol Yachts · 28m · 2010, refit 2023

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

$35k

Alegria

Azimut · 32m · 2024

8 guests | 5 cabins | 5 crew

€100k – 110k

BUNDALONG

Sunreef Yachts · 24m · 2019

10 guests | 5 cabins

$82k

LEXINGTON

Horizon · 26m · 2006, refit 2024

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$40k – 46k

TRUE NORTH

Broward Marine · 36m · 2000, refit 2019

8 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

$60k – 69k

INDY

Hatteras · 26m · 2005, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

$45k – 50k

Akasha

Lagoon · 19m · 2018

8 guests | 2 crew

$45k

MURPHY'S LAW

Delta Marine · 38m · 1998, refit 2015

10 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

$7k – 81k

NOW OR NEVER

Westport · 34m · 2010, refit 2020

8 guests | 4 cabins | 5 crew

$65k – 75k

PRIVILEGE

Custom Line · 34m · 2010, refit 2023

8 guests | 4 cabins | 4 crew

Price on request

HAPPY HOUR

Horizon · 34m · 2018

11 guests | 5 cabins | 5 crew

$95k – 105k

Afforded Leisure

Lazzara · 24m · 2001, refit 2025

6 guests | 3 cabins | 3 crew

$31k – 34k

47 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.

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