Helping Independent Owners of Crewed Yachts in the BVI
The Charter Yacht Society (CYS) is a registered non-profit organization which was founded in 1982 by independent owners of crewed yachts based in the BVI. It is the only BVI government recognized body within the crewed charter industry. By crews and for crews, the society represents the organized voice of individual BVI based yacht operators. The CYS advocates, educates and promotes.
The members of the Charter Yacht Society of the British Virgin Island provide private cruising vacations to guests from around the world. Its member crews are from a wide variety of backgrounds, both professionally and culturally. Crewed chartering is often a second career and many members have unusual stories to tell.
The Charter Yacht Society member yachts are represented by a network of over 200 professional charter yacht brokers worldwide. Brokers gain personal knowledge of the crews and their yachts through attendance at our annual BVI Charter Yacht Show in November or at our mid year show in May. The shows also give member yachts an opportunity to show off their yachts and crew plus the ability to meet representatives from companies who offer quality products and services to the industry.
Charter Yacht Society membership currently consists of 75 member yachts.
Fall Charter Yacht Show
November 7-10, 2019 at Nanny Cay Marina
Spring Charter Yacht Show
May 2020
July 9th, 2019
Nanny Cay Resort and Marina will once again be the host venue for the 2019 Fall Charter Yacht Show, Thursday November 7th - Sunday November 10th (until noon). Don't miss this opportunity to show off your...
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter
