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Beach bars of the Virgin Islands

Pick your bars or a classic run: the course draws over the water round every headland, every leg is timed, and a boat sails the day on the island clock. Every bar’s full card is on the beach bars guide.

The classic crawls

Eight days people actually do, with the legs worked out on the real coastline: a boat leg is the water route at 20 knots (6 under sail) plus a few minutes at the mooring; two bars on one island are a taxi ride, or a walk along the sand when they are neighbours. Every bar’s hours, happy hour, drink and story are on the beach bars guide.

Drake Channel run

5 bars · 15.2 nm on the water · 1 h 9 min between bars

The Bight at Norman Island, the rum bar at Cooper Island, then up the channel to Marina Cay and Trellis Bay.

  1. Willy T, The Bight, Norman Island
  2. Pirates Bight, The Bight, Norman Islandby boat · 0.4 nm · 7 min
  3. Cooper Island Beach Club, Manchioneel Bay, Cooper Islandby boat · 8.9 nm · 33 min
  4. Marina Cay Bar & Grill, Marina Cay, off Beef Islandby boat · 4.8 nm · 20 min
  5. The Loose Mongoose, Trellis Bay, Beef Islandby boat · 1.1 nm · 9 min
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Jost by boat

5 bars · 8.5 nm on the water · 48 min between bars

Clear customs at Great Harbour, Foxy's and Corsairs on foot, over the hill to White Bay, then round the east end to the B-Line and Little Harbour.

  1. Foxy's Tamarind Bar, Great Harbour
  2. Corsairs Beach Bar, Great Harbouron foot · 263 m · 3 min
  3. Soggy Dollar Bar, White Bayby taxi · 1.2 mi · 8 min
  4. B-Line Beach Bar, Little Jost Van Dykeby boat · 5.1 nm · 21 min
  5. Sidney's Peace & Love, Little Harbourby boat · 3.4 nm · 16 min
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St. Thomas to St. John

5 bars · 15.2 nm on the water · 1 h 10 min between bars

Water Island, the floating taco bar and the floating pizzeria, Cruz Bay, and the beach club on Lovango.

  1. Dinghy's Beach Bar & Grill, Honeymoon Beach
  2. Lime Out St. Thomas, Lindbergh Bay, off Emerald Beachby boat · 1.3 nm · 10 min
  3. Pizza Pi, Christmas Cove, Great St. Jamesby boat · 9.2 nm · 34 min
  4. The Beach Bar, Cruz Bay Beach, Wharfsideby boat · 2.8 nm · 14 min
  5. Lovango Beach Club, Lovango Cayby boat · 1.9 nm · 12 min
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The crawl’s course is found on a 200 m grid of the real shoreline (the ~9 m coastline our taxi and dive maps draw): the shortest water route that keeps a cell off the land, straightened into the few turns a skipper would steer. Distances are nautical miles along it; times are that distance at the chosen speed plus six minutes at each stop for the mooring. Two bars on one island are a taxi leg at the road’s length taken as 1.4 times the straight line, or a walk when they are under 800 m apart. It is the shape of a day, not a passage plan: it knows nothing of reefs, depth, weather or the cut in a bay, so a chart and a skipper still decide.

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