ABC Islands Charter Itinerary

ABC Islands Itinerary

ABC Islands Yacht Charter
The ABCs sit below the hurricane belt off the coast of Venezuela, which makes them the rare Caribbean charter that works reliably through autumn. They are dry, cactus-covered and Dutch, and they do not look or feel like the rest of the region.





Bonaire protects its entire coastline as a marine park and has done since 1979, with the result that the reef here is among the healthiest in the Caribbean. Curaçao has the architecture. Aruba has the beaches. A week takes all three without hurrying.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the ABC islands; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Bonaire

Begin at Harbour Village in Bonaire, an island that decided decades ago to protect the water from the shoreline down to sixty metres. The result is shore diving of a standard found almost nowhere else ’ step off the beach and the reef starts immediately. Flamingos work the salt pans inland. Dive twice, then eat on the waterfront.
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Day 2

Klein Curaçao

A short passage to Klein Curaçao, uninhabited but for a lighthouse slowly losing its argument with the weather. The leeward side has white sand and calm water; the windward side is strewn with wrecks and worth the walk. Snorkel the drop-off, where turtles are common and the reef falls steeply into blue.
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Day 3

Spanish Waters

Spanish Waters is a landlocked bay on Curaçao’s southern coast, entered through a narrow cut and flat as a millpond inside. It is the best-protected anchorage in the islands. Run the water toys, explore the inlets by tender, or take the afternoon at the Santa Barbara golf course above the bay.
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Day 4

Willemstad

Willemstad is a UNESCO site and unmistakably Dutch ’ gabled townhouses in ochre, coral pink and blue, lined along a channel with a floating pontoon bridge that swings open for shipping. The colour, so the story goes, was a governor’s response to migraines brought on by whitewash. Museums, restaurants, and an evening in a proper city.
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Day 5

Eagle Beach, Aruba

West to Aruba and Eagle Beach, a broad stretch of white sand with two wind-bent fofoti trees that have become the island’s unofficial emblem. Swim, take lunch ashore, and try the local seafood ’ Aruban cooking borrows from the Dutch, the Venezuelans and the Caribbean, and is better than any of those descriptions suggest.
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Day 6

Aruba

Give the island a day inland. The interior is desert: divi-divi trees permanently bent by the trade wind, volcanic boulders at Casibari, gold mill ruins from a nineteenth-century rush, and the wild windward coast where the Atlantic arrives with nothing in its way. A landscape nobody associates with the Caribbean.
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Day 7

Oranjestad

Finish in Oranjestad, Aruba’s capital, low-rise and painted in the same Dutch colours as Willemstad but rather more relaxed about it. Last snorkel, last paddleboard, and a walk through the town before disembarking. Three islands, three characters, and a week that never once needed a raincoat.
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