Thirteen Destinations. Seven Regions. Real Cruising Truth on Every Page.

Each guide names the anchorages, the marinas, the bases, and what's hard about getting there. Pick the one that fits where you are in your sailing.

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Thirteen destinations: seven in the Western Hemisphere (BVI, USVI, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Exumas, Abacos, Belize, La Paz), and six more across the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, Asia, and South Pacific. Exumas is the deepest guide — that's where we have the most to say. St. Vincent & the Grenadines is a Tier 2 guide out of Blue Lagoon. The others go deep over time as we sail them, blog them, and gather more cruising-truth from charterers who've done the runs.

Bahamas

Quiet anchorages, sand-bottom holding, clear water, and the kind of cruising community that's still about boats more than yachts.

Exumas

The Exumas are the cruising ground charterers come back to.

Abacos

The Abacos are the Bahamas you charter when you want the cruising-ground feel without the anchor-out commitment of the Exumas.

Caribbean

The cruising grounds most first-time bareboat charterers in the Western Hemisphere end up choosing.

British Virgin Islands

The BVI is where every first-time bareboat charterer in the Western Hemisphere ends up.

U.S. Virgin Islands

The USVI is the charter destination most people overlook because the BVI is right next door.

St. Vincent & the Grenadines

St. Vincent and the Grenadines is the charter you graduate to.

Americas

Two destinations that share a hemisphere and almost nothing else.

Belize

Belize is the cruising ground for charterers who've done the Caribbean a few times and want something less obvious.

La Paz, Sea of Cortez

The Sea of Cortez is the Pacific cruising ground that doesn't feel Pacific.

Mediterranean

The bareboat capital of the world. Three countries, three different cruising grounds, the deepest charter inventory anywhere.

Croatia

Croatia is the world's bareboat capital.

Greece

Greece is three distinct cruising grounds masquerading as one country.

France (Côte d'Azur)

The French Riviera is the bareboat cruising ground most people don't realize is a bareboat cruising ground.

Indian Ocean

Remote, warm year-round, and genuinely world-class.

Seychelles

The Seychelles are an outer-island cruising ground in the western Indian Ocean — 115 granite and coral islands east of Mahé, the country's capital.

Asia

Limestone karsts and flat water — Southeast Asia's bareboat answer.

Thailand

Thailand bareboat charters depart from Phuket and work the Andaman Sea — flat-water cruising under towering limestone karsts, with hong lagoons (collapsed-cave atolls accessible at the right tide), the Phi Phi Islands south, and Phang Nga Bay north.

South Pacific

The pinnacle bucket-list charter destination.

Tahiti

Tahiti — more accurately, French Polynesia — is the bucket-list bareboat destination.

Compare Destinations

Not sure which destination fits where you are in your sailing? Quick decision matrix:

If you want…	Start with
Easiest first-time charter	BVI
Less crowded Caribbean	USVI
Anchor-out Bahamas	Exumas
Marina-heavy Bahamas	Abacos
Reef diving + atolls	Belize
Winter cruising (October–May)	La Paz
Concentrated cruising, every-night-town	Croatia
Wind-on-the-rail Mediterranean	Greece (Cyclades)
Family-friendly Med	Greece (Ionian)
Riviera with culture	France
Bucket-list, year-round warm	Seychelles
Karst-island flat-water	Thailand
Pinnacle Pacific charter	Tahiti

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