Admiral Yachts, part of the CNL group and based at La Spezia on the Ligurian coast, builds custom motor yachts in the 40 to 80-metre range, working in steel, aluminium, and composite materials depending on the client’s brief. The yard has a long history of delivering large, complex yachts to the highest Italian standards, with each build individually engineered and designed. In Barbuda, three Admiral yachts are available for charter, bringing that tradition of Italian craftsmanship to one of the Caribbean’s most secluded and undeveloped islands. Barbuda is almost entirely undeveloped, home to a small resident community, no mass-market tourism, and a coastline that rewards yachts willing to cross the 40 nautical miles from Antigua. The Pink Sand Beach, Codrington Lagoon, and the surrounding reefs and cays provide a week’s cruising of genuine privacy at an Admiral superyacht’s natural level of quality. Weekly rates for Admiral yachts in this cruising ground run from approximately 80,000 to 170,000 euros. The advance provisioning allowance adds roughly 30 percent for fuel, provisions, berthing, and drinks. Caribbean season peaks December to April. The crossing from Antigua takes around two hours at cruising speed, and the anchorage off the Pink Sand Beach accommodates superyachts in settled conditions.
