Abacos Charter Itinerary

Abacos Itinerary

Abacos Yacht Charter
The Abacos are a two-hundred-mile crescent of cays sheltering a long, shallow sound, which makes them the most protected cruising ground in the Bahamas ’ the reef takes the Atlantic and the Sea of Abaco stays flat.





They were settled by Loyalists leaving America after the Revolution, and their descendants built boats here for two centuries. That inheritance shows in the clapboard villages, the accents, and the fact that Man-O-War Cay still turns out wooden hulls by eye. Hurricane Dorian struck hard in 2019; the islands have rebuilt with characteristic stubbornness.





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 Abacos; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Marsh Harbour

Board at Marsh Harbour, the third-largest town in the Bahamas and the practical centre of the Abacos. Provision, then run south to the Pelican Cays Land and Sea Park ’ two thousand protected acres of undersea caves, coral heads and reef fish in water shallow enough to snorkel without a tank.
Day 2

Elbow Cay

Hope Town’s lighthouse is red-and-white striped, hand-wound, kerosene-burning and one of the last of its kind anywhere in the world ’ the islanders fought its automation and won. Climb it for the view over the harbour. Then the village: clapboard cottages, picket fences, art galleries and a very good lunch by the water.
Day 3

Man-O-War Cay

Man-O-War has built boats since the eighteenth century and still does, in sheds where the moulds are the builders’ memory rather than a drawing. The island is dry ’ no alcohol sold ’ and quiet in a way that feels deliberate. Walk the beaches on the ocean side, snorkel the reef, and take the sunset from the deck.
Day 4

Great Guana Cay

Guana has seven miles of beach on its Atlantic side and, behind it, one of the healthiest reefs in the northern Bahamas. It also has Nipper’s, a beach bar painted in colours visible from the water, which does a Sunday pig roast and a rum punch of some potency. Snorkel first. Then Nipper’s.
Day 5

Green Turtle Cay

New Plymouth on Green Turtle Cay looks like a New England fishing village that drifted south, which is more or less what happened ’ the Loyalists brought the architecture with them. The Albert Lowe Museum tells the story properly. At No Name Cay nearby, another population of swimming pigs, and rather fewer boats.
Day 6

Manjack Cay

Manjack is uninhabited but for two families, and has two anchorages: one for calm, one for the sunset. Kayak the mangrove creeks, paddleboard the flats, and snorkel a reef that almost nobody visits. Turtles and rays work the shallows. The day has no structure and needs none.
Day 7

Treasure Cay

Treasure Cay’s beach runs three and a half miles in a shallow crescent, and it has appeared on every list of the world’s best beaches for thirty years. Walk it at low tide with the water barely over your feet. Breakfast on deck afterwards, and the Sea of Abaco flat and pale all the way to the horizon.

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