BVI Crewed Catamaran Charter: 2026 Rates and What’s Included

Last Updated: October 19, 2026

A BVI crewed catamaran charter lists a median of $32,000 for a week in high season, measured across 248 current all-inclusive rates for British Virgin Islands catamarans read in October 2026 (Vital Charters rate analysis). That is what a BVI catamaran charter with captain and crew costs before the gratuity. The middle half of that market falls between $25,000 and $43,500, and length is what moves a boat from one end of it to the other.

How much does a BVI crewed catamaran charter cost in 2026?

A BVI crewed catamaran charter lists at a median of $32,000 per week on all-inclusive terms in high season. The middle half of the market runs $25,000 to $43,500 (Vital Charters rate analysis of 248 current BVI sailing catamaran rates, October 2026). That’s one rate per yacht, high-season pricing, and only seasons that haven’t already ended. Rates on this page were read in October 2026 and cover the 2026/2027 season. For context against the other charter grounds, the same 50 to 59 ft all-inclusive catamaran medians $31,000 in the BVI, $30,000 in the USVI, $30,500 in the Leewards around St Martin and St Barts, $28,250 in the Grenadines and $31,000 in the Bahamas (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026), so the destination barely moves the rate. Our Caribbean destinations guide sets out what does differ, which is the sailing and the shore.

That $32,000 is barely a BVI premium. The same measurement run across the Bahamas returns $31,000 for a sailing catamaran (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026), so the number above is what a crewed catamaran costs anywhere in the region rather than what the British Virgin Islands charge for one. What the BVI gives you for it is density: the anchorages sit an hour apart. Every cut behind that comparison is published in the 2026 fleet rate report.

The denominators shift through this page, so here is the fleet behind them. There are 291 crewed sailing catamarans working the British Virgin Islands. Of those, 262 publish a high-season week and 248 do it on all-inclusive terms. Rate-entry counts run higher than yacht counts, because one yacht often publishes several seasonal rates.

Every band on this page is a sailing catamaran, because that is what the BVI overwhelmingly charters. Power catamarans are a small and pricier corner of the same fleet: 28 of them quote a high-season week at a $46,250 median. Our comparison of sailing against power catamarans covers when the premium makes sense.

Catamarans dominate BVI crewed yacht charter, and the British Virgin Islands is an all-inclusive market almost to the exclusion of anything else. Of 262 BVI crewed sailing catamarans quoting a high-season week, 248 quote all-inclusive terms and only 14 quote a base rate plus expenses. Those 14 are much the same size, a 57.5 ft median against 55 ft for the all-inclusive fleet, at a $33,500 median base, or about $43,550 once the provisioning allowance is added.

Two things about those numbers before you build a budget on them. They’re asking rates published by each yacht’s central agent, not audited transaction prices. A negotiated week can land below them. They’re also the boat, not the trip. The crew gratuity sits outside every figure on this page, and we say exactly where it lands further down. The BVI sits a shade above the region: the Caribbean-wide median for an all-inclusive crewed sailing catamaran is $31,500 against the territory’s $32,000, a gap of under 2 percent. For the wider picture across all five Caribbean charter grounds, our Caribbean charter rate analysis runs the same cuts region-wide, and our Caribbean catamaran charter guide covers the hull type everywhere it sails.

What does a 50-foot crewed catamaran cost in the BVI?

A 50 to 59 ft crewed catamaran in the BVI lists at a median of $31,000 per week, with the middle half between $26,000 and $32,625, across 136 current rates (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026). That’s the busiest band in the territory and, for its price level, the tightest priced. It’s also the size most groups of six to eight end up on.

View data table

BVI crewed sailing catamaran weekly all-inclusive rates by length. Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026.

Length	Yachts	25th percentile	Median week	75th percentile
40 to 49 ft	36	$19,000	$22,500	$24,700
50 to 59 ft	136	$26,000	$31,000	$32,625
60 to 69 ft	55	$42,000	$49,000	$55,500
70 ft and up	21	$56,000	$79,000	$94,000

Source: Vital Charters rate analysis of current British Virgin Islands crewed sailing catamaran rates, October 2026. All-inclusive terms, high-season rates with an unexpired season; the crew gratuity is not included.

The spread widens on either side of the 50 to 59 ft band, and fastest above it. Below 50 ft, 36 catamarans list at a $22,500 median. Between 60 and 69 ft, 55 boats list at $49,000. Past 70 ft the sample thins to 21 yachts and the range blows open, from $56,000 at the lower quartile to $94,000 at the upper. That band mixes production catamarans with custom builds that have little in common beyond hull count.

Before we get into group sizes and what the rate covers, see which BVI crewed catamarans are actually open.

Find Your Yacht

Search our crewed yacht fleet

WhereBVI

Where toTap any — or skip for all

The Caribbean✓BVI✓USVI✓St. Martin & St. Barts✓The Grenadines✓The Bahamas✓

Clear Next: Guests

WhoAdd guests

Who's aboardGuests

Adults

Age 13 or above

− 0 +

Children

Ages 2–12

− 0 +

Reset Next: Yacht

YachtAll Catamarans

Yacht typeDefault: all

All CatamaransPower CatamaransMotor YachtsMotor Sailers

Clear Done

Search →

Browse all crewed yachts

What does a BVI crewed catamaran for 8 guests cost?

A BVI crewed catamaran sleeping eight guests lists at a median of $32,000 per week, with the middle half between $26,000 and $43,500, across 129 current rates (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026). Eight is by far the most common configuration here. Of the 291 crewed sailing catamarans working the British Virgin Islands, 138 sleep exactly eight.

Divided out, the eight-guest median is about $571 per guest per night for the boat, the crew, every meal and the bar. Add a gratuity at the middle of the customary band and it is roughly $671 per guest per night, all in.

Vital Charters rate analysis of current BVI crewed sailing catamaran rates, high season, October 2026. All-inclusive terms; the crew gratuity is not included.

What is striking is how flat the cost per head stays across the whole range. At each band’s full capacity the median works out to about $548 per guest per night on a six-guest boat, $571 on an eight, $565 on a ten and $545 on an eleven. Four very different boats, and barely $26 between them. The eleven-plus band is only 13 boats, so read its figure as a hint, and it does not climb: the bigger boats spread a bigger rate across more people. Weighing a specific group against a specific hull? Our guide to choosing a yacht size for your group works the trade-off cabin by cabin.

What does a luxury catamaran charter cost in the BVI?

A luxury catamaran charter in the BVI, taken as a crewed sailing catamaran of 60 feet or more, lists at a median of $52,000 a week all-inclusive, with the middle half between $42,375 and $59,600 across 76 boats (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026). Those boats median 65 feet and carry three crew, a third person joining the captain and chef.

The top of the market is narrower still. The 25 most expensive BVI crewed catamarans start at $56,500 a week and median $73,000, at 75 feet with four crew. Sunreef, the builder most associated with that end of the market, has 17 crewed catamarans in the BVI at a $56,000 median, with the middle half running from $44,500 to $92,000 depending on size. Our luxury catamaran price tiers set out what each step up buys across the Caribbean.

The floor runs the other way. A quarter of the 40 to 49 ft catamarans list at $19,000 a week or less, all-inclusive, and that bottom quarter is the cheapest all-inclusive tier the BVI offers, with the lowest listing at $13,500. Anything priced well below that online is usually a shared day sail or a bareboat with a hired skipper, which leaves the cooking and provisioning with you: our skippered against crewed comparison prices that option.

What is included in an all-inclusive BVI catamaran rate?

Everything except the crew gratuity, in the vast majority of cases. Of 609 all-inclusive rate entries for BVI crewed catamarans currently on the books, 588 name no advance provisioning allowance at all. Eighteen state a small one and three describe it as optional, at a median of 5 percent (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026). That’s the practical meaning of all-inclusive here. The number you’re quoted is very close to the number you pay.

Inside the rate on a standard BVI crewed catamaran: the yacht, the crew and their wages, all meals aboard, and the ship’s bar within reason. Fuel for the week, water and ice, bed and bath linen, mooring and dockage on the itinerary, and the water toys the boat carries. Government cruising permits, park fees and the arrival levy are almost always covered too. Where they aren’t, that’s disclosed up front, and it tends to be yachts with European management wintering in the Caribbean.

Outside the rate: the gratuity, anything you eat or drink ashore, and land excursions or diving with an outside operator. Plus any premium spirits or wines a particular yacht names as excluded. The full all-inclusive explainer works through the boundary line, and the APA guide covers what happens on the plus-expenses contracts the other 14 BVI catamarans use.

What is not included: the 2026 BVI invoice

The crew gratuity, customarily 15 to 20 percent of the charter fee in the Caribbean crewed fleet. That’s $4,800 to $6,400 on a $32,000 week (CYBA Inclusive Charter Agreement, Clause 2.B). It’s discretionary in form and near-universal in practice. Whatever the contract type, it’s the one line that’s always yours.

What lands on a British Virgin Islands charter invoice in 2026

The BVI charges guests three things: a cruising permit of $16 per guest per day on foreign-based yachts or $4 on BVI-based ones, a $10 arrival levy, and small National Parks Trust fees. All-inclusive rates cover these in most cases, and the customary 15 to 20 percent crew gratuity is always yours. No mandatory APA.

Fees verified September 2026.

Here’s that arithmetic on the median eight-guest week, so you can see the shape of a real BVI invoice rather than a range.

Median eight-guest BVI crewed catamaran, high season, October 2026. Excludes anything bought ashore.

Those government charges are per guest, and on all-inclusive terms the yacht absorbs them. That is precisely why they never come up in the conversation. For eight guests over a week they run somewhere between roughly $328 and $1,000, depending on where the yacht is registered. On a proposal, check only whether they sit inside the rate or beside it. Our Caribbean charter tax and permit registry carries every published figure with its statutory source. The crew gratuity guide covers what the trade associations actually publish about tipping.

Does the season change a BVI catamaran rate?

Far less than almost anyone expects. Of 240 BVI crewed catamarans that publish both a high-season and a low-season all-inclusive rate, 197 quote the identical number in both. Thirty-nine charge more in high season and four charge more in low. The median seasonal premium is zero and the mean is 1.2 percent (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026).

Across the whole territory the low-season median is $32,000, the same as in high season. That isn’t the seasonal discount the Caribbean is famous for. The reason is structural. A crewed catamaran’s cost base is two or three salaried professionals living aboard, and those wages don’t fall in July.

What season does change is the weather, so plan around that calendar even when the rate won’t move. The Atlantic hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30 and peaks on September 10 (NOAA National Hurricane Center). NOAA’s climate summary for the Virgin Islands puts the wet season from May through October, the dry season from November through April. Availability follows that calendar closely. Price does not.

What season really changes in the BVI is availability and weather, not price. Our month-by-month guide to Caribbean charter timing lays out which weeks book first and which shoulder weeks reward a flexible date.

How do BVI crewed catamaran companies differ?

Less by fleet and more by who owns the boat you sleep on, and the crew that comes with it. Of 275 BVI crewed sailing catamarans reporting a crew number, 185 carry just two people (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026), so the operator’s model tells you more than its size does. A BVI crewed catamaran is generally one of three things. An owner-operated yacht run by the couple who own it, a privately owned yacht placed with a management company, or a hull inside a larger commercial fleet. The rate sheets look alike. The week doesn’t. The BVI charter company checklist shows how to tell them apart before you book.

The standard BVI crewed catamaran carries two crew. Of the 275 that report a crew number, 185 run a captain and a chef between them, 56 carry three and 24 carry four (Vital Charters rate analysis, October 2026). The other 10 list either one crew member or five and up. Two crew for eight guests is the configuration the territory is built around. It’s also why BVI weeks feel less formal than the same money buys elsewhere.

The fleet is also growing and younger than most people assume. More than 90 charter vessels relocated to the Virgin Islands ahead of the 2025/2026 season. The government valued that at $13.99 million in direct seasonal activity (Government of the Virgin Islands, Territorial Address, June 2026). The median BVI crewed catamaran was built in 2022. Five builders account for 210 of the 248 boats quoting an all-inclusive high-season week: Lagoon with 67, Bali with 60, Fountaine Pajot with 41, Leopard with 25 and Sunreef with 17. So if you’re comparing two proposals in the same size band, you’re usually comparing two versions of the same production hull with different crews aboard.

Be clear about the commercial structure too, because the search results conflate two different things. A charter company owns or manages yachts and rents them out. A broker represents you, shops the whole market, and is paid by the yacht rather than by you. Our explainer on how a charter broker works sets out where the money goes.

What does a BVI charter week actually look like?

Short hops in remarkably steady wind. NOAA records the prevailing wind across the Virgin Islands as easterly in all twelve months of the year. Winds above 33 knots blow about 0.1 percent of the time annually, and seas top nine feet under 2 percent of the time in every month (NOAA United States Coast Pilot 5, Chapter 14, August 2026 edition). Water temperature runs between about 78 and 83 degrees Fahrenheit across the year (NOAA Coral Reef Watch). That combination is why so many people take their first crewed charter here.

One rule shapes every BVI itinerary and almost nobody explains it: park moorings are day use only. That’s why the boat leaves the Indians or the Baths before dinner rather than staying put. The standard week runs:

1. Tortola or St Thomas, where the charter starts
2. Norman Island and Cooper Island
3. The Baths at Virgin Gorda
4. North Sound
5. Anegada, usually for one night
6. Jost Van Dyke on the way back down the north shore

Nothing on that route is a long day, and you’re never more than a couple of hours from the next anchorage. Our seven-day BVI itinerary walks it anchorage by anchorage, and the BVI crewed charter guide covers the parts of the trip that never appear on a rate sheet. Anchorage by anchorage, the British Virgin Islands charter destination pages set out what each island is actually for.

To see which boats are actually open rather than what the market looks like in aggregate, start a search across the crewed yachts we broker.

The bottom line on BVI crewed catamaran rates

A BVI crewed catamaran charter is one of the few luxury purchases where the headline number is close to the final one: a $32,000 median week becomes $36,800 to $38,400 with the gratuity, and 588 of 609 all-inclusive rates add no provisioning allowance. Get the size band right, budget the gratuity honestly, and the rest of the arithmetic on this page holds.