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Charter-week routes, day by day, with a route map, leg distances and a verified anchorage for every night. Each one is built around what the cruising ground actually does to a boat at anchor — the katabatic gusts of Corsica, the buoy fields of Sardinia's parks, the trade wind that keeps a Grenadines boat pinned to the edge of its circle.
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The classic charter loop — Norman, Cooper, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, Jost — with mooring fees and the nights you can still anchor.
Read the guideThe classic Îles d'Hyères loop, day by day — La Tour Fondue to Porquerolles, Port-Cros and Le Levant and back, with a numbered route map, daily distances, verified anchorages, Mistral and Posidonia notes, and the anchor alarm radius to set at every stop.
July 6, 2026
The glamour coast, day by day — Saint-Tropez and Pampelonne, the red porphyry cliffs of the Esterel, a lunch stop at Théoule and a night at anchor off the Man in the Iron Mask's island — with a numbered route map, daily distances, verified anchorages, Mistral and Posidonia notes, and the anchor alarm radius to set at every stop.
July 14, 2026
The most dramatic short cruise in France, day by day — out of Marseille's Vieux Port to a night on good sand in Sormiou, the calanque crawl past Morgiou and Sugiton to the forbidden pool of En-Vau, a fjord bedroom at Port-Miou and coffee under France's highest sea cliff at Cassis — with a numbered route map, the national park's anchoring bans and speed limits, Mistral rafale warnings, and the anchor alarm radius to set in every calanque.
July 22, 2026
The classic South Corsica loop, day by day — Bonifacio to the Lavezzi Islands, Rondinara, Santa Giulia, Palombaggia and Figari and back under the limestone cliffs, with a numbered route map, daily distances, verified anchorages, Strait of Bonifacio and mooring-buoy notes, and the anchor alarm radius to set at every stop.
July 7, 2026
The finest short cruise in Italy, day by day — out of Palau to a park buoy under Caprera, round Punta Rossa to the pink granite of Cala Coticcio, the Maestrale bolthole at Spargi, a beach on Budelli you are forbidden to touch, and a night in the lagoon between three islands — with a numbered route map, the national park's permit and Zone A/B/C rules, the bridge that blocks the Maddalena–Caprera channel, and why the alarm radius on a mooring buoy is 40 metres.
July 29, 2026
Seven volcanic islands across forty miles of open Tyrrhenian Sea, one still erupting every twenty minutes — and not a single all-weather anchorage among them. The full 114 nm loop day by day, with a numbered route map, every stop's shelter sector and the move to make when the wind goes the wrong way, verified depths and holding, why the alarm radius climbs from 80 m to 120 m as you sail west, and where you must never anchor on Stromboli.
August 5, 2026
Three volcanic islands, a Roman town on the seabed and the busiest recreational water in Italy — the one cruising ground where you plan around neither the weather nor the rulebook but other boats. The 62 nm circuit out of Baia day by day, with a numbered route map, verified depths, holding and alarm radii, why Capri is lunch rather than a night, and why widening the alarm to stop ferry-wash false triggers is the wrong fix.
August 9, 2026
The classic British Virgin Islands loop, day by day — Road Town to Norman Island, The Baths, North Sound, the open-water run to Anegada, Cane Garden Bay, Jost Van Dyke and Soper's Hole — with a numbered route map, daily distances, verified anchorages, mooring-ball and reef notes, and the anchor alarm radius to set at every stop.
July 11, 2026
The Caribbean's other charter ground, day by day from Blue Lagoon: Bequia, Mustique's moorings, Canouan, a night behind Horseshoe Reef in the Tobago Cays, Union Island, a Petit St Vincent lunch and Salt Whistle Bay — 93 nm with a route map, the 2026 park and mooring fees, what Hurricane Beryl changed ashore and what it left alone at sea, and why a boat anchored in a wind that never drops lives on the rim of its circle and needs a tighter alarm, not a wider one.
September 11, 2026
The French Caribbean's charter base, day by day from Pointe-à-Pitre: a reach to Marie-Galante, two nights on the buoys of Les Saintes, the wind shadow of Basse-Terre to the Cousteau Reserve and Deshaies, and back the same way — because the Rivière Salée bridges have not lifted since 2013 and the butterfly has no waist. 124 nm with a route map, the 2026 buoy regimes and fees, online clearance for €3–5, Petite-Terre by reservation, and why a boat in the lee of a volcano needs the whole circle where the Grenadines needed the rim.
September 14, 2026
The biggest charter base in the Caribbean, day by day from Le Marin: Sainte-Anne's 400-boat sand, Diamond Rock, the Anses d'Arlet buoy field, Anse Mitan and the ferry to Fort-de-France, Saint-Pierre on its volcanic shelf under Mont Pelée, and back — 77 nm with a route map, which bays are organised mooring zones now and which are still free for 2026–27, online clearance, the sargassum coast to skip, and why on a shelf that ends in 200 m of water the first alarm is the only one.
September 15, 2026