Feadship, the Dutch cooperative of Royal Van Lent and De Vries Scheepsbouw operating under the Holland Jachtbouw umbrella, builds fully custom steel motor yachts to an engineering standard that is widely regarded as the benchmark of the global superyacht industry. Each Feadship is built once, to one set of specifications, for one owner, making each vessel in the charter fleet a genuinely individual object. In Cat Island — one of the Bahamian archipelago’s most remote and least-visited destinations — a Feadship charter represents the most compelling contrast available in the Bahamas: the world’s most precisely engineered yachts deployed against the island’s barefoot simplicity. Cat Island has no resort hotel of note, no casino and no cruise ship stop. What it has is 80 kilometres of coastline that includes some of the Bahamas’ finest beaches, a reef system off the eastern shore that sustains excellent diving, and bonefishing flats at both ends of the island that receive almost no commercial charter traffic. Feadship charter yachts in the Bahamas carry ten to eighteen guests with crews of fourteen to twenty-two. Weekly rates begin at approximately 350,000 euros for smaller Feadship charter availability and extend well above 800,000 euros for flagship vessels, before the advance provisioning allowance of 30 per cent. Season runs from November through April. Confirmed Feadship charter availability in the Bahamas is limited and should be explored through a specialist broker.
