Turks and Caicos Charter Itinerary

Turks and Caicos Itinerary

Turks and Caicos Yacht Charter
The Turks and Caicos sit on two shallow banks separated by a trench two thousand metres deep, which explains both the colour of the water and the quality of the diving. The wall at West Caicos begins at fifteen metres and does not stop.





Above the surface the islands are low, dry and mostly empty. Grand Turk has a museum and a main street; Salt Cay has a population in the dozens and the ruins of the salt industry that once supplied North America. Between them lie cays with nobody on them at all.





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 Turks and Caicos; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Providenciales

Board at Provo and cruise past Grace Bay ’ twelve miles of sand that regularly tops the lists, and for once deserves to. Lunch under way, snorkel on the reef inside the barrier, and dinner on deck. The bank here is shallow for miles, and the water goes through every shade of green there is.
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Day 2

South Caicos

South Caicos was the salt and fishing capital and is now, quietly, the emptiest of the inhabited islands. Bonefish flats on one side, a wall on the other. Anchor at the southern end and watch the frigatebirds work the anchorage. Nothing else will happen, and that is entirely the point.
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Day 3

Grand Turk

Grand Turk is seven miles long and holds the capital, which amounts to Duke Street, some Bermudian colonial houses and a very good little national museum ’ its centrepiece a wreck from around 1505, among the oldest in the Americas. The wall lies three hundred metres off the beach. Sunset cocktail at anchor.
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Day 4

Salt Cay

Salt Cay has perhaps sixty residents, donkeys in the road, and salinas that have been evaporating seawater since the seventeenth century. The whole island is a preserved industrial landscape nobody bothered to preserve; it simply stopped. Snorkel the reef, walk the salt pans, and go to bed early.
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Day 5

Big Sand Cay

Uninhabited, seven miles south, and a designated bird sanctuary. Turtles nest on the beach; humpbacks pass offshore between January and April on their way to the Silver Bank. Swim, lie on sand nobody has walked on this week, and take the tender around the cay. There is nothing here. It is remarkable.
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Day 6

French Cay

French Cay was a pirate anchorage and is now a marine sanctuary, a low scrub island on the edge of the bank with reef sharks patrolling the drop-off. The diving is among the best in the country. Picnic on the beach, then move on before dark ’ there is no shelter here in a blow.
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Day 7

West Caicos

Finish at West Caicos, uninhabited since a failed sisal plantation, and dive the wall along its western shore: a vertical drop from fifteen metres into blue, hung with sponges and gorgonians, with eagle rays passing along it. Then the run back to Provo, over water it is difficult to photograph honestly.
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