7-day sailing itinerary in the Bahamas: the Abacos

The longest hop is Green Turtle Cay → Marsh Harbour at about 19.5 nm; the shortest is Marsh Harbour → Hope Town (Elbow Cay) at about 4.5 nm (our reading of the table). Coordinates are OpenStreetMap's, rounded to 4 decimals.

Coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (OpenStreetMap (Nominatim geocoder), checked 29 Oct 2026).

We found no verified park, mooring or quay fee for the stops outside the marinas above: see what we could not verify.

Fees are examples and are not added together: they depend on the boat's length, the day and where you actually stop. Every other cost of the week, per person: true cost of a week in the Bahamas.

We found no verified park or anchoring rule for this route: see what we could not verify.

More on moorings and parks: snorkelling and diving in the Bahamas.

Mean air temperature and mean wind at one reference point, Marsh Harbour, Abaco (26.541, -77.064), for this route. Our verdict column applies our best-time rules to that point (how).

Windiest month: January (12 kn); calmest: July (9 kn) at Marsh Harbour, Abaco (our reading of NASA POWER means). Mean wind is not gusts or sea state. The route falls in the Atlantic hurricane season, 1 June–30 November, with most activity mid-August to mid-October (NOAA National Hurricane Center, checked 29 Oct 2026). Seasonal hazards by month (storms, strong-wind days, rain): weather risk in the Bahamas. Air temp = NASA POWER monthly mean 2 m air temperature (T2M); wind = monthly mean 10 m wind speed (WS10M), converted from m/s to knots (kn) with 1 m/s = 3600/1852 kn. For each calendar month we average the 2016–2025 values (10 full years). POWER's meteorological grid is ½° latitude by ⅝° longitude (roughly 55 × 50 km at these latitudes), so one cell cannot show local sea breezes or coast-to-hill temperature differences. They are our calculation of average conditions, not a forecast, not gusts, and not sea conditions. Mean wind is lower than the peak winds you will feel on the water. Weather data obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project, funded through the NASA Earth Science Division (pulled 2026-10-28) (NASA POWER, checked 28 Oct 2026). We changed the data: we averaged the monthly values for 2016–2025 and converted wind from m/s to knots (our calculation).

• Best weather: January, February, March, April, May, December (our rule: warm, and outside the hurricane or wet season where we have a source).
• Sweet spot: January, May, December (our rule: best weather, and not one of the three priciest months).
• Calmest, for families: March, April, May (our suggestion: the calmest best-weather months by mean wind).
• Windiest, for keen sailors: January, February, December (our ranking).

Full month-by-month comparison with prices: best time to charter in the Bahamas.

12 Knots' average weekly catamaran price is €9,410 in January and €10,799 in March (asking prices, updated October 2026) (12 Knots, checked 27 Oct 2026). All-in per person for 4, 6 or 8 people: true cost of a week in the Bahamas.

It depends on the operator: we found no Bahamian government text requiring a skipper's licence, Anchor says none is required by law and a sailing résumé is enough, but 12 Knots says some Bahamas charter companies require a valid sailing certificate as company policy. More: licence rules for the Bahamas. No licence? A skipper costs extra: bareboat vs skippered.

See catamarans for rent in the Bahamas on SamBoat

Ask the base about the route, the boat's draught and its fees before you book; listings and prices on SamBoat are SamBoat's own. We may earn a commission if you book through our links, at no extra cost to you (disclosure).

• Mooring and marina prices at every stop.
• Park rules or fees on the route (Hope Town harbour moorings, any Bahamas National Trust park).

Distances: great-circle distance between the OpenStreetMap coordinates of each stop on a sphere of radius 6,371 km, converted at 1.852 km per nautical mile (our calculation). A real passage is longer: headlands, channels, tacking. Best months: the best-time rules (methodology). Catamaran berth examples: the marina's printed rate × its printed multihull surcharge (our arithmetic).

• [Secondary source]: From a newspaper, NGO, guide, charter company or community map; not official.
• [Not verified]: We could not confirm it. We leave it open rather than guess, and never add it to a total.
• No label: Read in an official text: government, park or port authority, or an operator's own published price list.

Distances, catamaran berth examples, best months and weather means are our calculation and say so. Fees change and depend on the boat's length, the day and where you stop: check with your charter base.

• OpenStreetMap (Nominatim geocoder): Nominatim search API: coordinates of each itinerary stop (secondary, not official), checked 29 Oct 2026.
• NASA POWER: Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources: Monthly API (T2M, WS10M) (official), air temperature and wind at Marsh Harbour, Abaco, 2016–2025 means, our calculation.
• 12 Knots: Catamaran charter in the Bahamas (secondary, prices), checked 27 Oct 2026.
• NOAA National Hurricane Center: Tropical cyclone climatology (official), checked 29 Oct 2026.

Method: methodology. Data: JSON.

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