Antigua Charter Itinerary

Antigua Itinerary

Antigua Yacht Charter
The Leeward Islands run in an arc from Sint Maarten to Antigua, each within a half-day of the next, and each governed at some point by a different European power. The result is a chain where the language, the currency and the cooking change every few hours of sailing.





The trade wind is reliable and on the beam most of the way south. What varies is the character: Dutch and French on one island, English on another, and at Saba a volcanic cone with no beach at all and some of the best diving in the Caribbean.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Leewards; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Sint Maarten

Thirty-seven square miles, two countries, and a border nobody polices. The Dutch side has the marinas and the noise; the French side has the bakeries and Orient Bay. Both have excellent food. Watch the aircraft come in low over Maho Beach if you must ’ everyone does ’ then clear out before the evening.
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Day 2

St. Barths

A short reach to St. Barths, French, expensive and entirely unapologetic. Gustavia’s harbour is small and the anchorage outside better. Walk over the hill to Shell Beach in the afternoon, and eat somewhere with a view of the boats. The island rewards a second day, but the Leewards are calling.
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Day 3

Anguilla

Anguilla is flat, dry and ringed with the finest beaches in the eastern Caribbean ’ Shoal Bay, Rendezvous, Meads. There is very little else, which is the point. Snorkel the reefs, take a beach bar for lunch, and anchor somewhere with no lights ashore. The island has never chased anybody.
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Day 4

Saba

Saba is a volcano rising straight out of deep water with no beach anywhere on it ’ the airport runway is the shortest commercial strip in the world, and it looks it. The marine park protects seamounts that come to within thirty metres of the surface. Dive them. Then climb through cloud forest to the summit, called Mount Scenery, accurately.
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Day 5

St. Kitts & Nevis

Brimstone Hill on St Kitts is a British fortress the French took once and never held, and the view from it runs to four islands. Nevis is quieter ’ Nelson married here, Hamilton was born here, and the peak wears its own cloud permanently. Anchor off Pinney’s Beach and take the afternoon slowly.
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Day 6

Barbuda

Barbuda has one village, a frigatebird colony of five thousand pairs, and seventeen miles of beach that is faintly, unmistakably pink. Hurricane Irma emptied the island in 2017 and it has been slow to fill again. Anchor off the sand, take the tender into the lagoon, and understand what the Caribbean was.
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Day 7

Antigua

Antigua claims a beach for every day of the year and does not seem to be exaggerating. English Harbour is the reason for the reputation: Nelson’s Dockyard, a working Georgian naval yard, still repairing yachts after two hundred and fifty years. Anchor in Falmouth, walk to Shirley Heights, and end the week looking down on both harbours.
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