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Top 10 Marinas in Papua New Guinea
The Lae Yacht Club has guided Pacific passage-makers since the 1960s, and the barge ramp at Port Moresby is still the principal haul-out for yachts crossing the Coral Sea.
Top 10 Marinas in Aruba
The constant 15-25 knot trade wind that makes Aruba a world-class kitesurfing island is the same breeze that drives fast passages south — the marina at Oranjestad is the last comfortable stop.
Top 10 Marinas in Curacao
Spanish Water holds over 400 boats year-round in a lagoon enclosed on three sides by limestone hills — the ABC Islands' safest anchorage and most complete yacht service hub.
Top 10 Marinas in Guadeloupe
The Rivière Salée channel between Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre is Guadeloupe's secret sailing highway — and Pointe-à-Pitre's marina is its port of call.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Martinique
Le Marin holds over 1,000 boats in peak season and stocks baguettes, French wine, and 30-metre yacht spares — a combination unique in the eastern Caribbean.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Saint Lucia
Rodney Bay's 253-berth marina has welcomed the ARC transatlantic rally for decades — here is what makes Saint Lucia the Windward Islands' favourite stopover.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Barbados
Port St Charles on Barbados's northwest coast offers a private marina in a dredged lagoon with water depths of 3 metres — the island's quietest, most exclusive cruising enclave and a world away from the ARC welcome party in Bridgetown.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Jamaica
The Errol Flynn Marina at Port Antonio was built on the former estate of the actor himself, who fell so deeply in love with Jamaica's Blue Mountains rising above the harbour that he never left.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Trinidad and Tobago
Crew's Inn Marina at Chaguaramas, the Caribbean's busiest refit destination, processed more than 700 hurricane-season haul-outs in a single year — a scale that reshaped how the whole Caribbean treats storm-season logistics.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Venezuela
Marina Venetur Caraballeda, reopened after years of closure, sits beneath the Ávila mountain at the foot of the coastal highway that descends to Caracas — an iconic anchorage slowly returning to life.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Peru
Club Regatas Lima at Chorrillos has hosted South American championship regattas since the 1930s — its stone breakwater shelters some of the most organised sailing infrastructure on the continent.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Ecuador
The Puerto Lucia Yacht Club at La Punta, just west of Guayaquil, offers a rare combination of full-service haul-out facilities and a warm welcome rarely found this deep in South America.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Panama
Arriving at Shelter Bay Marina in Limón Bay with the Canal entrance behind you and the Atlantic rollers at your stern, you feel the weight of maritime history in every mooring line.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Iceland
Sailing into Reykjavik under the shadow of Snæfellsjökull glacier with the midnight sun painting the sea copper is an image no North Atlantic sailor forgets.
Read more →Top 10 Marinas in Ukraine
The Odesa yacht club at the commercial port predates the Soviet era, its stone quays absorbing a century of Black Sea storms and racing starts alike.
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