Perini Navi has done more than any other yard to elevate the sailing superyacht into a practical, crewed charter vessel. The Viareggio and La Spezia yard’s twin-masted sailing yachts, with their computerised furling systems and aluminium spars reaching 60 metres above the deck, combine aesthetic grandeur with a functionality that small-crew operation demands. In the trade winds and steady breezes of the Bahamas and Caribbean, a Perini Navi performs as designed: steady, quiet under sail, with a motion at sea that motor yachts cannot replicate.
Seven Perini Navi yachts operate across Bahamas and Caribbean waters, ranging from elegant 38-metre aluminium sloops to full ketch-rigged vessels of 60-plus metres. These are sailing yachts in the truest sense, capable of putting the engine away for entire passages, and the experience of arriving at Acklins or Crooked Island under sail rather than power is a different order of event from any motor yacht arrival. Interior volumes are generous for the waterline, typically including four to six guest cabins with full-beam suites.
Charter rates for Perini Navi yachts in this region run from approximately 70,000 to 200,000 euros per week before expenses. The advance provisioning allowance of around thirty percent covers fuel for motoring, food, drinks, berthing and local fees. Fuel costs are typically lower than comparable motor yachts given the sailing time logged. High season runs December through April.
Acklins and Crooked Island reward the Perini Navi guest with the kind of sailing passages that Caribbean charter routes rarely deliver. The trade wind approach from Nassau, tacking east of the Exumas and bearing off south, is a day of proper blue-water sailing. Colonel Hill on Crooked Island provides the sheltered anchorage on arrival. Landrail Point and the Atlantic coast of Crooked Island offer tidal passes and reef channels navigated by dinghy. Pitts Town Lagoon is the flat-water retreat.
