How should couples compare cabin layouts on a BVI power catamaran charter?

Couples sharing a BVI power catamaran charter should compare cabin layouts on three points: whether the guest cabins are equal, where the crew sleeps, and which cabins sit closest to the engines. Most powercats in the fleet, the Leopard 53 Powercat and Aquila 44 among them, come either as an owner’s version with one hull given over to a master suite or as a charter version with four near-identical cabins. Equal cabins keep the peace. Each should have its own en-suite head with a separate shower stall, and the crew should have quarters forward rather than sharing a guest head. Aft cabins sit nearest the engine rooms, which matters on the run to Anegada and not at all on a mooring at Norman Island. Ask the broker for the deck plan rather than the photos, and ask what the flybridge offers for the hours when two couples want space apart. Matching couples to British Virgin Islands powercats starts from the plan, not the brochure.