The Perfect 7-Day BVI Charter Itinerary
Your captain has extensive sailing experience in these waters. Here are his two favourite week-long routes — plus what happens when you give him free rein.
Your captain has two main routes he loves — clockwise and counter-clockwise — and the flexibility to do something completely different if wind, weather, or the group's mood calls for it. Here's the framework.
Six ways to shape the week
Your Week, Six Different Shapes
These are shapes, not schedules. Weather, sea state, crowds, how long you have and where you joined the boat drive the route more than anything else, so treat the five below as sketches of what a week can feel like. In practice most charters end up as Option Six. Read them for the mood you want, not the order of the stops.
Option One
The Classic Loop
The week most people picture when they imagine the BVI, sailed east first while the mornings are calm. You get the granite at The Baths, a night in one of the most protected anchorages in the islands, and the run north to Anegada in the middle of the week when everyone has found their sea legs.
Where it tends to go
Trellis Bay to The Baths on Virgin Gorda, north to Leverick Bay or Saba Rock, on to Anegada, west to Jost Van Dyke, then Norman Island, Peter Island and Cooper Island on the way back.
Pick this if: it is your first time here and you want the places people talk about.
Option Two
The Long Way Round
The same islands in the opposite direction. Sometimes the wind, the swell or the number of boats already sitting in an anchorage makes west-first the better week, and your captain will say so. Nothing is lost by turning the loop around. The order changes, the week does not.
Where it tends to go
Norman Island and the caves first, then Jost Van Dyke and Sandy Spit, up to North Sound, across to Anegada, and back down through Virgin Gorda, Cooper and Peter Island.
Pick this if: the forecast argues for it, or you would rather end the week near the airport than start there.
Option Three
The Quiet Week
Fewer bars, more empty water. This is the week for people who came to hear the boat instead of a sound system. You still eat well and you still see the famous places, you just arrive at them earlier and leave before the afternoon crowd shows up.
Where it tends to go
Savannah Bay on Virgin Gorda, Oil Nut Bay, Sandy Spit, the quieter beaches on Peter Island, and Cooper Island for the coral gardens.
Pick this if: you are here to rest, or the group includes people who do not want a late night every night.
Option Four
The Loud Week
The other end of the same islands. Painkillers at the Soggy Dollar, Foxy’s on Jost Van Dyke, the Willy T off Norman Island, sunset at Saba Rock, and the Pirate Show at Leverick Bay if the night lines up. We plan the sailing around the evenings rather than the other way round.
Where it tends to go
Norman Island and The Bight, Jost Van Dyke and White Bay, North Sound and Saba Rock, Leverick Bay, with Anegada in the middle for the night of limbo and live music.
Pick this if: this is a celebration and the group already knows it.
Option Five
The Water Week
Built around what is under the boat. The BVI has one of the largest reef systems in the Caribbean, Horseshoe Reef, sitting off Anegada, and a set of snorkeling spots close enough together that you can be in the water twice a day without a long passage in between. Rendezvous scuba diving can be arranged separately at additional cost.
Where it tends to go
The Indians, the caves at Norman Island, the coral gardens at Cooper Island, the reef off Anegada, and whatever the visibility that week rewards.
Pick this if: the snorkel gear is the reason you came.
Option Six
You Choose
This is what most charters actually become. On your first evening your captain sits down with the group and lays out a plan for the week based on the forecast, where you joined the boat, how long you have, how many days you want to be sailing, and what kind of trip this is. Then the week bends around what is actually happening. An extra night at Anegada because nobody wanted to leave. A different anchorage because the wind moved. A quiet day because the group needs one. Most seven-night charters comfortably visit four to six destinations, and almost none of them follow a printed route exactly.
Where it tends to go
Wherever the week takes it. Nothing above is fixed, and none of it costs extra to change.
Pick this if: you would rather decide once you are here, which is what usually happens anyway.
Tell us who is coming and what you want the week to feel like, and we will tell you which shape fits and what it costs.
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What They Said
"We followed their itinerary to the dot — The Baths, the Bubbly Pool, the Soggy Dollar. Gino and Nikita know all the right locals. We will do this again — no doubt."
"The NYE drone show at Necker Island was unbelievable — you set us up perfectly. We will recommend you to all our friends."
"Our teenage girls had adventures at every port. Forever in our hearts and minds."
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The stops that make up the week
A route is just a string of anchorages. Here is every one we sail to, and the things that shape the order.