History

Virgin Charter Yachts was founded in 1996 and has been helping guests experience the British Virgin Islands by yacht for 30 years. What began as a small motor yacht charter company has grown into a boutique BVI yacht charter company offering bareboat charters, power catamaran charters, luxury crewed yacht charters, yacht management and yacht sales.

In 2013, longtime boaters and BVI charter guests Gary and Alexia Lucas purchased Virgin Charter Yachts. Having experienced the BVI as charter guests themselves, they understood the vacation from the customer's perspective and wanted to build a company around exceptional yachts, knowledgeable local support and highly personalized service.

Today, Virgin Charter Yachts remains independently owned and operated and is based at Nanny Cay Marina on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

Virgin Charter Yachts Today

Virgin Charter Yachts has evolved into much more than a traditional bareboat charter company. Today, we operate a personally selected fleet of power catamarans, sailing catamarans and motor yachts while also helping clients book luxury crewed yacht charters throughout the BVI and Caribbean.

Unlike charter companies limited to a single yacht manufacturer, our bareboat fleet includes yachts from multiple leading brands including Horizon Motor Yachts, Horizon Power Catamarans, Aventura, Fountaine Pajot, Lagoon, Leopard, Aquila and Two Oceans, allowing us to help guests choose the size, layout and style of yacht that best fits their group.

For luxury crewed charters, we are not limited to the yachts we directly manage. As a professional crewed yacht brokerage, Virgin Charter Yachts can help clients compare crewed catamarans, power catamarans and motor yachts throughout the BVI and Caribbean charter market.

We also manage privately owned yachts in charter and assist clients interested in yacht ownership, yacht sales and placing a yacht into charter management. This combination of charter operations, professional brokerage and yacht management gives our team firsthand knowledge of yachts from both the guest and operational sides of the industry.

Professional Expertise & Local Knowledge

Owner Alexia Lucas is a professional charter yacht broker and a member of both the Charter Yacht Brokers Association (CYBA) and the Virgin Islands Professional Charter Association (VIPCA), professional organizations serving the charter yacht industry.

Our involvement in the professional charter community, combined with decades of operating yachts in the BVI, gives us relationships and firsthand experience with yacht managers, captains, chefs and other charter professionals throughout the Virgin Islands and Caribbean.

For our crewed charter clients, that means you are not simply searching an online database of yachts. We help evaluate both the yacht and the crew, because we believe the crew, service style and personality can be every bit as important as the yacht itself.

As Virgin Charter Yachts enters its fourth decade in the BVI charter industry, our goal remains the same: provide exceptional yachts, experienced people, local knowledge and the personalized customer service that has kept so many of our guests returning year after year!