Guide · 23 September 2026
Three different weeks. Only two of them are weeks we sail.
Search results mash these words together. They are not the same vacation. In the British Virgin Islands you are choosing who drives, who cooks, and who is on the hook if the weather turns.
You rent the yacht. You are the captain. Fleets will ask for a résumé or an ASA / RYA ticket and they mean it. You provision, you pay fuel and moorings, you pick the night. The starting rate looks lower because almost nothing is in it. We do not offer a bareboat week. If that is the week you want, say so and we will tell you to go to a fleet.
A professional captain runs the yacht. You shop, or you send a list. No chef. No meals in the rate. This is the $24,000 seven-night shape we publish for a Lagoon 51-class week, up to eight guests. It suits a group that wants the islands without standing a watch, and that does not need a galley service.
Adding a captain to a bareboat is still not a crewed yacht. The captain drives. You still cook.
Captain and a separate chef. Meals, a house bar, fuel, and moorings sit in the rate. This is the $36,000 seven-night shape we publish for the same guest count. The captain does not cook. If a brochure says otherwise, it is a different product than ours.
Fully crewed houses with named yachts and a published APA are a third flavour again. We list those only after a written commission. Until then the public site stays on our captain weeks.
You can sail and want the boat to yourselves: fleet bareboat, not us. You cannot sail, or you do not want to: captain-only or all-inclusive, depending on whether you want to grocery-shop. You want a named crewed house with a chef who has a following: wait until we have that letter, then ask.