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From Florida · 3 nights · From Miami or Fort Lauderdale

A long weekend from Miami to Bimini

Across the Gulf Stream on Friday, two days on the banks with the stingrays and the Sapona wreck, home on Monday

Best months

November - May

How long

4 Days / 3 Nights

Start and finish

Miami or Fort Lauderdale to Miami or Fort Lauderdale

Planned by

The Ahoy Club charter team

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.

The route

FriBiminiAlice Town, North Bimini · 49 nm · 5 h
SatGun Cay and Honeymoon HarbourGun Cay, south of Bimini · 10 nm · 1 h
SunBiminiAlice Town, North Bimini · 10 nm · 1 h
MonHomeMiami or Fort Lauderdale · 49 nm · 5 h

What the crew arrange along the way

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.

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Day by day

Fri

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

Sat

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

Sun

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

Mon

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

Make this week yours

Tell us the dates and who is coming.

This is a sample week, planned by the Ahoy Club charter team from trips we have run before. Every stop moves with the weather, the tide and the group. We reshape it around your yacht and your dates, book the tables and quote the rate.

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