Perini Navi has transformed the sailing superyacht into a practical, crewed charter vessel, and the yard’s twin-masted ketches and sloops, with their computerised furling systems and carbon spars, are among the most impressive sailing yachts available to charter guests anywhere in the world. For Andros Island in the Bahamas, a destination with reliable trade winds for the eastward passage from Nassau and an extraordinary variety of anchorages on arrival, a Perini Navi provides a sailing experience calibrated to the destination.
Seven Perini Navi yachts operate across Bahamas and Caribbean waters, ranging from 38-metre sloops to full ketch-rigged vessels of 60-plus metres. These are blue-water sailing yachts in the truest sense, capable of putting the engine away for entire passages and arriving at Andros under sail alone. Interior volumes are generous for the waterline, typically including four to six guest cabins with full-beam layouts and crew quarters that attract experienced offshore professionals.
Charter rates for Perini Navi yachts in the Bahamas and Caribbean 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 legs, food, drinks, berthing and local fees. High season runs December through April, when the trade winds are at their most consistent.
Andros under sail is the Bahamian charter experience at its finest. The trade wind passage from Nassau across the Tongue of the Ocean is a day of proper sailing. Fresh Creek on the east coast provides the barrier reef base. Nicholl’s Town offers the northern anchorage. Mangrove Cay and the South Bight provide flat-water rest days. Behring Point on the west opens the bonefish flats. The passage home to Nassau, tacking north through the trade wind, closes a week that few other sailing destinations in the region can equal.
