Booking "Belline II" as a group gives you the advantage of choosing your own itinerary. There is no need to keep to a set schedule. It's your holiday and we want you to enjoy it to the full. You can go wherever you desire within our cruising area - weather and time permitting. We ask for your input and develop an itinerary that encompasses your wish list and includes other areas we feel you would enjoy. It's a very flexible arrangement.
Beautiful British Virgin Islands are described as "Nature's Little Secret". Minutes after casting off, the adventure begins & you will find yourself cruising in an abundance of quiet & protected anchorages, with white sand, palm fringed beaches and crystal clear waters alive with beautiful corals & colorful tropical fish. The diving and snorkeling is rated among the best in the world.
Over sixty dive sites are chartered, many within a recently established underwater National Park System. Innumerable virgin reefs remain unexplored. Vertical walls, underwater pinnacles, coral reefs, caverns and wrecks - most notably the RMS Rhone which sank in 1867. Perfect for a family vacation, romantic Honeymoon or a fun vacation with friends. Come and experience the smooth sailing, laid-back atmosphere and attentive service.
We, your crew are here to make your vacation the best that you have ever had! By far the most popular charter area (and the easiest to sail) is the Virgin Islands. These Islands are more sheltered from the open ocean than other Caribbean areas, they are close to each other and there are numerous quiet and flat calm anchorages. You rarely need to sail more than an hour or two to get from one place to the next, and will quite often stop somewhere for lunch and end up somewhere else for dinner.
There are dozens of quiet anchorages to enjoy, many excellent spots for diving and snorkelling, a variety of shore excursions are possible and you can always find something going on in the evening, it that's your goal. Comprised of 36 islands, dotted around 59 square miles, in the Caribbean (16 of which are inhabited); about 80 kilometers 960 miles) east of Puerto Rico, north of the Leeward Islands, and adjacent to the U.S. Virgin Islands; principal islands are Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke. Among the most frequently visited of the BVI's handful of inhabited islands are Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Beef Island, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke, Peter, Mosquito, and Guana Islands.
All of these lilting place names reflect idyllic sites for unwinding, wriggling your toes in the sand, and absorbing the tranquil pleasures of sunshine and sapphire seas.
Your Itinerary:
Day 1: Boarding is around 12.00 noon and noon at the designated pick up point. Welcome aboard drinks and a light lunch will be served in the cockpit. After introductions, and a brief orientation, we'll leave you to your unpacking. Once everyone is settled in, we fit you up with your personal mask and flippers for the week and then head out for Peter Island. Your first swim in a perfect cove. Maybe a short sail to another anchorage but most of all, a lazy, relaxing day.
Day 2: This is a day for sailing. Tacking up under full sail in the protected waters of the Sir Francis Drake channel, we past Salt Island, Cooper Island, Ginger Island and then on to the North Sound in Virgin Gorda. Once in the Sound, there's an opportunity for various water sports, hikes ashore, volley ball or snorkeling Eustastia reef. After dinner, a trip ashore, to the Bitter End Hotel. Dancing to the sounds of a steel band rounds out the day.
Day 3: Weather permitting, this is the day to sail to Anegada, a remote coral island boasting mile after mile of white sandy beach. We leave immediately after breakfast and it's usually a fast two-hour sail, skirting the coral reef and anchoring off the Anegada Reef Hotel. A popular excursion is to take a 20 minute safari bus ride across this flat island to Loblolly Bay for a short hike along the breath taking beach to Big Bamboo beach bar, followed by a swim and spectacular snorkeling. After a drive back through the flamingo reserves we serve you a lunch aboard, after which we'll take you by dinghy to a remote beach to walk and swim at your leisure. In the evening, the sunset from the aft deck of "Belline II" is quite magnificent.
Day 4: A downwind sail today back to Virgin Gorda and the renowned site of the Baths. This is an area of huge rocks and grottoes. We'll take you exploring, climbing rocks, and looking for that perfect photo for this year's Christmas card. The National Park Trust has built a trail through the boulders to the picturesque Devils Bay where we can swim and snorkel. We'll anchor for the night in Trellis Bay and, for those who want a "Vineyard" type song and comedy act, the Last Resort is the place to go after dinner.
Day 5: Monkey Point at Guana Island is our first stop of the day. The snorkeling here is truly wonderful. Before lunch, enjoy a down wind sail to Green Cay, the epitome of a small coral atoll. Foxy's Bar in Jost Van Dyke, is the place to be around 5pm. Foxy gets his guitar out and entertains with his home-grown wisdom and humor. It is also a place to return to after dinner when the music invites you to dance in the sand, beneath a clear starlit sky.
Day 6: One of the most beautiful beaches in the BVI is White Bay, Jost Van Dyke. Whether we take "Belline II" behind the coral reef or walk over the hill from Great Harbor, it promises to be a morning of sun, sea and sand. The small bar there, aptly named The Soggy Dollar, because so many people swim ashore from yachts with dollars in their pockets, claims to have invented the Painkiller drink - the new alternative to Pina Coladas.
A short sail to West End Tortola, also known as Soper's Hole. Lunch and an opportunity for the shoppers to visit Pussers, the Sea Lion boutique and many other interesting shops in a Caribbean style waterside village. Then up the Sir Francis Drake channel for a last snorkel at the Indians or the Caves on Norman Island. After dinner, a visit to the William Thornton floating bar (known locally as the Willy T) provides the atmosphere for a final fling. For the more adventurous type: you can experience a "body shot" and get (temporary) tattooed.
Day 7: An early morning sail back to your designated drop off point and breakfast, with the sad reality that the cruise is almost over. We've spent so many wonderful weeks on "Belline II" with truly great people - weeks we all wished would never end.
* Option 2: Anguilla, Netherland Antilles.
The St.Martin/Sint Maarten, Anguilla, St.Barths and Saba Islands are a fantastic sailing /diving area, its complete different than the BVI's but so much to see/do and a variety of different islands.
SXM - Saint Martin /Sint Maarten, its an island full of life, over a 100 nations who life on a quite small land mass, divided in two countries, French /Dutch, most spoken language is English, along with French / Dutch, some Spanish, Creole, Papiamento, Italian etc.
AXA - Anguilla, a small posh island, known for its spectacular beaches, off shore business and famous resorts.
STB - St.Barths, another very posh place, loads to do, nice dives and shopping, island tour in a smart car, fantastic beaches.
SABA - a rock in the sea, best dives in the whole Caribbean (only with local dive operator) greatest rainforest, most unique island in the Caribbean.
Your Itinerary:
Day 1: Step aboard on the French side, Fort Luis Marina and we will be shortly sailing to Grand Case. There you have a choice of several cute local art shops and great beach bars to chill and enjoy a cool drink, feet's in warm sand and a wonderful sundown. From there easy access to Lotery Farm , a very stunning and beautiful valley, featuring a tree lounge and its well known Fly Zone.
Day 2: From there we sail around the south tip of Anguilla, to Sandy Ground. Anguilla is the island of the most beautiful beaches. Sunday afternoon’s, best life jazz right on the beach, jazzer's well known in the Caribbean and international are jamming every Sunday at Johnno's.
Day 3: From Sandy Ground we will enjoy a smooth sailing around Anguilla, splashing in water by Tintamare (meaning: flat). This is a small island about three miles off the east coast of SXM. It is uninhabited, has long, deserted beaches backed with palm trees and all natural mud baths. They are a lot of fun and great pictures can be taken! Great snorkeling for everybody and if the sea is calm a good shallow dive as well. Sleeping in either Ile Pinel, a great little island with some cute beach bars, a bit like Jost van Dyke and Foxys. Or in Orient Beach next bay where you can enjoy a very long walk or either a drink and some music right at the beach. They offer many water sports options, like kite surfing, windsurfing, wave runners, water trampoline, parasailing etc. Or from there it a short taxi ride to the horseback riding farm.
Day 5: Beach exploring of Orient Bay and perhaps try out one of the many water sports offered. After lunch we will be sailing to Ile Fourches, a small uninhibited island just off St.Barths. It’s a natural preserve with a black sandy beach. One can find almost all the times sand dollars in the snorkel deep water, as in the black sand they are very visible. Great dives are just around the corner. This is a very quite place and you will sleep wonderfully deep.
Day 6: Our next stop is Anse Colombier, the first beautiful bay in St.Barths. You can enjoy some nice and easy hikes, beach relaxing times there are some and some great diving spots, as well very save for night dives. Non divers can enjoy a wonderful snorkel around the shore line.
Day 7: We will moor in from of Gustavia and exploring STB by smart car or Jeep and of course its best know for fabulous tax free shopping of all posh brands and the choice is a big one! Enjoy a day at your leisure, lunch somewhere en-route, happy hour al fresco , return cars, after dinner drink in Gustavia .
Day 8: Early sail to Saba, we will schedule a afternoon dive with the local dive operators . Things to do in Saba, more diving of course as it is considered the diving capital of the Caribbean. Some fantastic hiking up to the rainforest, a taxi tour on the steepest roads in the Caribbean on the road that was impossible to be built.
Day 9: Back to sxm.
* Options: We can shorten Itinerary for a 8 day cruise.
All is really depended as weather goes along, but usually its calm and all is possible.
Member discount:
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Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
- We will be happy to help you to find best Airfares, Airports to fly in and Ferry connections.
- All provisioning, three gourmet meals and appetizers, standard bar are included in the yachts rate!
- Please inquire for special needs, vegetarian diets or else, it all can be arranged for you.
Also see tour packages in:
Central America and Caribbean
British Virgin Is.
Anguilla
Netherlands Antilles
Outdoor: Water Drifter
Boating and Sailing
Scuba Diving
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