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The long weekend · 3 nights · Nassau to Nassau, or Staniel Cay
Fly into Nassau, three nights in the cays around Staniel, the pigs, the grotto and the sharks, and home
Best months
November - May
How long
4 Days / 3 Nights
Start and finish
Nassau to Nassau, or Staniel Cay
Planned by
The Ahoy Club charter team
The idea of the week
For the group with a long weekend and one thing on the list. Fly into Nassau on Friday, board and go straight out to the cays, and spend Saturday and Sunday around Staniel Cay: the swimming pigs, Thunderball Grotto, the yacht club and the sharks under the dock, the nurse sharks at Compass Cay and a picnic in Pipe Creek. Back to Nassau on Monday, or fly out of Staniel's own strip and skip the run.
For zero cruising, the boat waits in the cays and a forty-minute flight from Nassau puts you a tender ride from her. 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
What the crew arrange along the way
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.
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.
Day by day
Norman's Cay, northern Exumas · 45 nm · 4.5 h · Land, board, and out across the bank
Land in Nassau, board at Albany twenty minutes later, and go. Four and a half hours across the Yellow Bank with lunch under way, and the first swim off Norman's Cay before the sun goes down over the banks. The cartel's DC-3 lies in the shallows for a sunset snorkel if there is light left.
Staniel Cay, central Exumas · 25 nm · 2.5 h · The pigs, the grotto, the sharks
A morning run down to Staniel, with a stop at the sandbar if the tide is low. Feeding and swimming with the pigs at Big Major, by tender or jet ski; Thunderball Grotto at slack low tide; Staniel Cay Yacht Club for drinks and pool, and the nurse sharks arriving under the dock at sunset. Dinner on board under the stars.
Compass Cay and Pipe Creek, central Exumas · 7 nm · 45 min · Sharks at the dock, a picnic in the creek
Forty-five minutes north into Pipe Creek. Swim with the nurse sharks at the Compass Cay marina, walk to Crescent Beach on the Atlantic side, then the beach picnic in your own bay at Pipe Cay and the float-off for the afternoon. Sunset drinks in the creek, the photograph of the weekend.
Nassau, New Providence · 55 nm · 5.5 h, or a 40-minute flight · Disembark, or fly from Staniel
Breakfast under way and back across the bank for an afternoon flight from Nassau. Or the yacht stays in the cays and you fly out of Staniel Cay's strip to Nassau in forty minutes, which gives you the morning in the water.
Make this week yours
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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