Jost Van Dyke is the smallest and most celebrated of the main British Virgin Islands, a place where a handful of beach bars at Great Harbour have achieved global fame and the anchorage fills each evening with yachts from across the eastern Caribbean. For motor yacht charterers it represents the social centrepiece of a BVI week: close enough to road town to join the circuit, remote enough from the package-holiday infrastructure to feel genuinely unspoiled.
The motor yacht charter fleet available in the BVI and assignable to a Jost Van Dyke itinerary runs to around 162 published vessels, ranging from 25-metre open-deck sportscruisers built for speed between anchorages to 60-metre displacement motor yachts with beach clubs that rival the shore establishments. In these sheltered waters a motor yacht’s advantages are clear: covering the distance from Jost Van Dyke to Virgin Gorda in an hour rather than three, leaving time for a morning dive before the afternoon swim stop at White Bay.
Weekly rates for motor charter yachts based in the BVI start at approximately 50,000 euros for a 25-metre vessel and reach 215,000 euros for flagship 60-metre yachts with full spa and tender fleet. The advance provisioning allowance, typically 30 percent of the base fee, covers substantial fuel consumption on motor yachts, provisioning and marina fees. The peak season runs from December to April, with the highest demand around Christmas and New Year.
From Jost Van Dyke the motor yacht circuit covers ground quickly. A morning departure reaches the Baths on Virgin Gorda before the day boats arrive. Anegada is 45 minutes further. Sandy Cay, just off the eastern tip of the island, offers a pristine beach with a reef system that rewards an hour with a snorkel before the tender returns for lunch.
