Bimini Charter Itinerary

Bimini Itinerary

Bimini Yacht Charter
Bimini sits fifty miles from Miami, which makes it the closest the Bahamas come to the United States and the reason it has always attracted people leaving somewhere in a hurry. Hemingway fished here, wrote here and brawled here. The islands remain small, low and largely given over to the water.





This route crosses the Gulf Stream, works the fishing cays along the western edge of the bank, and finishes near Nassau. The theme throughout is the sea: sharks, wrecks, marlin and reef, with the sand as an afterthought.





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 western Bahamas; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Miami to Bimini

Cross the Gulf Stream in the morning, deep blue water running north beneath you at four knots, and by lunch the bank turns the sea a colour that seems to belong to a different ocean. Bimini is two thin islands and a harbour. Dive the wrecks, snorkel the shallows, and eat conch on a dock as the sun goes. Hemingway’s ghost is heavily marketed and, in fairness, present.
Day 2

Bimini

A full day is barely enough. Reef sharks work the flats and the operators here run one of the few reliable bull shark encounters anywhere. Sunken barges and a scattered wreck lie within a tender ride. The Dolphin House ashore is one man’s lifelong mosaic and worth an hour. Beach barbecue at dusk, on sand nobody else is standing on.
Day 3

Cat Cay

South to Cat Cay, private, trim and organised around a yacht club and a deep-sea fishing tradition that predates most of its members. The marina is sheltered, the beaches are empty and the pace drops sharply. Snorkel the reef in the morning, take the tender across the flats in the afternoon, and watch the sunset from the western shore.
Day 4

Chub Cay

Chub Cay marks the southern tip of the Berry Islands, where the bank drops abruptly into the Tongue of the Ocean and the fishing becomes serious. Marlin and tuna offshore, bonefish on the flats behind. Even without a rod the day holds: the reefs here are healthy, the water deep blue at the drop-off and pale green a hundred metres away.
Day 5

Lyford Cay

Cross to the north-west corner of New Providence and Lyford Cay, where the marina is well protected and the island discreet. It is a good day for the yacht’s toys and a quiet one ashore. Paddleboard the shoreline in the early light, then let the afternoon go slowly. Nassau is close, but the noise is not.
Day 6

Rose Island

Rose Island lies a short passage east of Nassau: a thin green ridge, a chain of sandbars and beaches on which almost nobody stands. Swim, snorkel, run the tender along the shallows and take lunch ashore. The pigs here are less famous than the Exumas’ and considerably less crowded, which is the whole argument for coming.
Day 7

Rose Island

Give the last day to the anchorage rather than the passage. Snorkel at slack water, take the paddleboard along the sandbank at low tide, and read something on deck for a few hours. Turn for the mainland in the afternoon with the bank going pale astern, and the Gulf Stream ahead to remind you how far the week actually went.

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