Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
Great sailing - ideal for beginners, fun beach bars |
| Disadvantages: |
Very popular, can be busy |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
The BVIs are in the northeast Caribbean, and offer protected sailing perfect for newcomers to chartering yachts. There are a lot of moorings, marinas and beach bars. We had our first yachting holiday here, chartering from Sunsail in Tortola. Now we're a little more experienced, we'd like to go back!
We particularly enjoyed:
Norman Island - a large bay called the Bight with a restaurant and bar on a converted ship, and a lively beach bar
Marina Cay - great snorkelling over a shallow reef
Jost Van Dyke - two lovely bays, one with the Soggy Dollar bar (cos you swim from the boat...) and one with the world famous Foxys - voted in the top ten places in the world for New Year's Eve
Virgin Gorda - excellent marinas at Spanish Town and the Bitter End yacht club, amazing rock formations at the Baths
Salt Island - Snorkelling the wreck of the Rhone
We didn't go to Anegada, a wildlife sanctuary as the navigation is a little hazardous around the reefs.
The sailing itself was great, fairly constant winds, the sea was generally pretty smooth, and the moorings were well looked after with good facilities. Sunsail was not brilliant - the boats were not being maintained as well as they should and we had a few little niggly problems.
Flights were via a small plane from Antigua.
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