Featured Destination: Charter the Caribbean
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Where Else but the Caribbean!?
The cold weather settles in, or maybe it is the same winter humdrum Brighten your outlook and think “Charter in the Caribbean” for a refreshing winter holiday break!
With warm trade winds and clear magical waters, hours of water fun await you in the Caribbean. Wander the clean sand beaches, swim or snorkel in the crystal clear waters, hike the rain forests, or look for Green Vervet Monkeys, sea turtles and dolphins. There are endless options when it comes to this wonderful charter destination.
The Caribbean is a year around charter destination; however the best time for clear skies and sunny days is from early December through June. Start planning early if a Christmas or New Year Holiday is of interest, or for weeks in February through Easter, which are often Spring Break weeks for various school holidays. Once a time frame is chosen you can move on to the fun part and choose an itinerary with specific destinations!
The British Virgin Islands provide the calmest cruising ground in the Sir Francis Drake Channel in the middle of a ring of lovely islands. The entire cruising area is 30-40 miles, so visiting many islands during your charter is very easy, just jumping from one protected anchorage to another. With such calm waters, catamarans are a great option and more catamarans are available here for charter than any other Caribbean location. More charter yachts with on board diving are located here as well, for diving shipwrecks hundreds of years old.
Further south with a touch of French flair are St. Martin, St. Barths and Anguilla. St. Barths is the place to see and be seen for New Years Eve. Shop the boutiques and dance the year away. Long sandy beaches mark Anguilla as an excellent beach location.
Have you ever been further south to Saba, St. Eustacia, Nevis, St. Kitts, Antigua and Barbuda? An area full of Caribbean history touched by Admiral Nelson, Alexander Hamilton, colonial sugar plantation life, English, French, Spanish and Dutch occupation, and of course, pirates. Colonial French plantation owners brought Green Vervet monkeys to plantation life on Nevis and St. Kitts to entertain their children. There are now more monkeys on each island than people.
Let’s not forget the Grenadines and Grenada, which includes the Tobago Cays, with fabulous snorkeling, the island of the fabulous and chic, Bequia, where whaling is still practiced under sail with harpoons, Grenada, the island of spices, with spice fragrances brought by the wind when approaching, and lastly the island of Mustique, vacation home of Princess Anne and the famous Basil’s Bar.
The Caribbean is a vast cruising ground offering many different options, all of which are well known and available through Northrop and Johnson Yacht Charters
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