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Caribbean · December to April
Leeward Islands
St Barths for New Year, Antigua for the yards at English Harbour and Sailing Week in April. The two poles of Caribbean yachting.
33 places on the chart: 6 harbour towns and ports, 21 islands, 4 anchorages and bays and 2 beaches.
Open Leeward Islands on the chart
Why the fleet comes here
- Saint Martin
- Simpson Bay Lagoon holds the largest concentration of superyacht refit in the Caribbean
- Saint Barthélemy
- The centre of Caribbean yachting in season, and the Bucket regatta in March
- Antigua
- English Harbour and Falmouth, and Antigua Sailing Week every April
- Saba
- A rock with no beach and no harbour; moorings on the west side in settled weather
- Saint Kitts
- Christophe Harbour, built for large yachts on the south-east peninsula
- Nevis
- A single volcano, and the anchorage off Pinney’s Beach
- Barbuda
- Seventeen miles of pink sand and almost nobody on it
- Philipsburg
- The Dutch capital of Sint Maarten, on Great Bay
- Gustavia
- St Barths; the New Year’s Eve fleet fills the harbour and anchors off it
- Marigot
- The French capital of Saint-Martin, on the lagoon
- Falmouth Harbour
- The superyacht berths of Antigua, and the Superyacht Challenge in March
- Anguilla
- Sandy beaches, no cruise ships, and the day anchorage at Sandy Island
- English Harbour
- Nelson’s Dockyard, a working Georgian naval yard, and hurricane-hole shelter
- Simpson Bay
- The bridge into the lagoon opens on a schedule the whole island works around
Every place in Leeward Islands