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Ten nights, two regions · 10 nights · Simpson Bay, St Maarten to Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas
A weekend in St Barths, Anguilla's beaches, an overnight passage downwind, and a week in the Virgins
Best months
December - April
How long
11 Days / 10 Nights
Start and finish
Simpson Bay, St Maarten to Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas
Planned by
The Ahoy Club charter team
The idea of the week
The way to see the islands people know by name without rushing either. Start in St Maarten, take St Barths over the weekend and Anguilla for the beach picnic, then slip out after dinner for the one overnight passage of the trip, eighty miles west with the trade wind behind you, and wake up in the Virgin Islands with a week ahead: the Baths, Anegada, Norman Island, Jost Van Dyke and St John, finishing in St Thomas for the direct flight home.
We run it west on purpose. The same passage east, from the Virgins to St Barths, is a long night into the wind. This way most guests sleep through it. Superyacht charters start on any day of the week, so the route stands on its own. If you want the crowd and the DJs in St Barths, we line your dates up so those two nights fall on a Friday and Saturday. Legs are approximate, at a steady ten knots, and the captain adjusts them for the weather on the day.
The route
What the crew arrange along the way
The beach picnic
The crew land a table, chairs, umbrellas and a kitchen on a beach with nobody else on it and cook lunch there. Anguilla is the best place in the Caribbean for one; the crew will find the others.
A themed day or night on board, at least one
The Caribbean is about the boat, so we plan at least one themed day or night. Tell us the idea before the charter and the crew have the costumes and decorations ready: pirate night is the classic.
The toys, every day
Seabobs, paddleboards, wakeboards, the slide if the yacht has one. In the Caribbean the water is the point, and the crew have them in by the time breakfast is cleared.
Day by day
St Barths, northern Leewards · 16 nm · 1.5 h · Board, and straight across
Board in Simpson Bay and St Barths is on the bow in ninety minutes. Start on the quiet north-west corner: no road, no building, turtles under the boat. Swim, settle, dinner on deck.
St Barths, northern Leewards · 2 nm · 15 min · Gustavia, Nao, the first night out
Into Gustavia. Lunch at Nao or La Guérite, the boutiques along the quay, a swim at Shell Beach, dinner at Bonito with the harbour lit below, then Le Ti if the table wants to dance.
St Barths, northern Leewards · Stay · Beach clubs, the DJ night
The Saturday. Nikki Beach or Shellona for the long lunch, Gouverneur or Saline by tender for anyone who wants empty sand, and the DJ night at Bagatelle or La Guérite. Party group? We check who is playing before we fix the dates.
Anguilla, northern Leewards · 23 nm · 2.5 h · The beach picnic, Elvis' at sunset, then west
North-west to Anguilla for the crew's beach picnic on Rendezvous Bay or Sandy Island, then sunset drinks at Elvis' shack with the locals and the hammocks. Dinner on board, and after it the yacht slips out for the overnight passage to the Virgin Islands. Eighty miles downwind, eight hours, and the stabilisers do the rest.
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands · 81 nm · 8 h, overnight · Wake up in the Virgins
Breakfast with Virgin Gorda coming up ahead. Clear in, then the Baths in the quiet of the afternoon: granite boulders the size of houses, grottoes and pools between them. Into the North Sound for the night, Saba Rock or the Bitter End.
Anegada, British Virgin Islands · 14 nm · 1.5 h · Lobster on the beach
The flat coral island ringed by reef. Loblolly Bay and Cow Wreck Beach for the day, flamingos in the salt ponds, and Anegada lobster grilled on the beach at sunset.
Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands · 23 nm · 2.5 h · Reef and rum
South with the toys out at the lunch stop. Turtles at Cistern Point, the Cooper Island rum bar and microbrewery in the afternoon, a quiet night on the mooring.
Norman Island, British Virgin Islands · 8 nm · 45 min · The Caves and the Indians
Forty-five minutes to Treasure Island. Snorkel the Caves and the Indians, the best fish life in the Virgins, and the Bight for the night with the Willy T floating bar for those who want it.
Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands · 12 nm · 1 h · The Soggy Dollar and Foxy's
An hour round to White Bay. Swim ashore to the Soggy Dollar for a Painkiller, which is how the bar got its name, then Foxy's in Great Harbour for the last BVI night.
St John, US Virgin Islands · 5 nm · 30 min · Back into the US, the last park bay
Clear into the US at Cruz Bay and spend the last day at Maho Bay in the national park: turtles in the seagrass, the calmest water of the trip, and the farewell dinner on deck.
St Thomas, US Virgin Islands · 12 nm · 1 h · Disembark
An hour to Charlotte Amalie after breakfast. Fifteen minutes to the airport and direct flights across the US.
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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