Motor yacht charter at Cooper Island places guests in the quieter southern tier of the British Virgin Islands, where the anchorage off the Cooper Island Beach Club sits in the lee of the hills and the dive sites at the Indians and Salt Island are within a short tender ride. Motor yachts are a natural fit for the Cooper Island stop: the crossing from Road Harbour in Tortola takes under an hour under power, the anchorage is settled enough for overnight use, and the facilities at the beach club make for a convivial evening ashore. The BVI motor fleet numbers over 160 vessels available for charter. Cooper Island sits in the southern Drake Channel, directly south of Tortola and east of St John. It is a compact island with no permanent vehicle access and an anchorage that attracts yachts seeking a quieter alternative to the main BVI stops. Motor yachts in the BVI fleet range from 30-metre performance cruisers to 70-metre flagships, all capable of the short Drake Channel crossings that make Cooper Island a natural stop on any southern BVI circuit. Weekly rates for motor yachts based in the BVI start from around 50,000 euros, with the largest vessels reaching 500,000 euros per week. An advance provisioning allowance of approximately 30 percent covers food, fuel, berthing, and crew gratuity. High season runs from December through April. Cooper Island features on most BVI motor yacht itineraries as an overnight stop or a day anchorage on the southern circuit. The anchorage at Cooper Island Beach Club on the north shore is the primary stop for charter yachts, with mooring buoys available in settled conditions and good holding in sand for those at anchor. The Indians, four rocky pinnacles rising from the Drake Channel between Cooper Island and Norman Island, provide one of the BVI most reliable dive and snorkel sites with visibility often exceeding 20 metres. Salt Island to the east holds the wreck of the RMS Rhone, a 310-foot Royal Mail Ship lost in the hurricane of 1867 and now one of the Caribbean premier wreck dives, accessible by tender from the Cooper anchorage in under 15 minutes.
