7-day sailing itinerary in the British Virgin Islands: from Tortola

The longest hop is Anegada → Jost Van Dyke at about 26.6 nm; the shortest is Jost Van Dyke → Road Town, Tortola at about 6.6 nm (our reading of the table). Coordinates are OpenStreetMap's, rounded to 4 decimals. For Norman Island (The Bight) OpenStreetMap gave an island or area point, not the harbour or anchorage itself, so that leg's distance is approximate.

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

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 British Virgin Islands.

• Vessels over 70 ft or 35 tons may not use the mooring system; do not leave a boat unattended on a Trust mooring; dinghies must use the dinghy moorings, not the dive or day-use moorings. (National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands)
• Virgin Gorda (The Baths, North Sound): National Parks Trust moorings are for day use only, with a 90-minute limit that "must be strictly observed"; all mooring areas are 5 mph no-wake zones. (National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands)

More on moorings and parks: snorkelling and diving in the British Virgin Islands.

Mean air temperature and mean wind at one reference point, Road Town, Tortola (18.427, -64.618), for this route. Our verdict column applies our best-time rules to that point (how).

Windiest month: July (14 kn); calmest: October (10 kn) at Road Town, Tortola (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 British Virgin Islands. 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: February, June, July (our ranking).

Full month-by-month comparison with prices: best time to charter in the British Virgin Islands.

12 Knots' average weekly catamaran price is €8,222 in May and €9,773 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 British Virgin Islands.

Usually not: no BVI government text we found requires a skipper's licence, and Anchor and 12 Knots say Caribbean charter companies ask for a sailing résumé instead (the base manager checks it). More: licence rules for the British Virgin Islands. No licence? A skipper costs extra: bareboat vs skippered.

See catamarans for rent in the British Virgin Islands 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).

• Overnight mooring-ball prices at every stop.
• National Parks Trust permit price.

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.

• National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands: Park tickets & Marine Conservation Permit: marine park guidelines (official), checked 28 Oct 2026.
• 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 Road Town, Tortola, 2016–2025 means, our calculation.
• 12 Knots: Catamaran charter in the BVI (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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