Miami / Southeast · Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale bareboat operator working from its own docks on the Middle River, chartering sailing catamarans since 1979. A Lagoon 45 and a Bali Catspace 40, bareboat or captained, by the week to the Keys and the Abacos. A boating resume stands in for a certificate.
Fun In The Sun charters two sailing catamarans out of its own private marina on the west side of the Middle River in Fort Lauderdale, below the Sunrise Boulevard bridge: Flash Of Green, a Lagoon 45, and Cattitude, a Bali Catspace 40. The company dates itself to 1979 and describes itself as the longest continuously run charter operation in South Florida.
The qualification regime is a resume rather than a certificate. The company issues a charter contract on receipt of the deposit and, for a bareboat booking, a boating resume on its own form, which asks for three sailing references with full addresses. No ASA or US Sailing level is named anywhere on the site, so a sailor with real miles and no paperwork has a route here that the certificate-gated operators do not offer. A licensed captain can be hired instead.
Charters run seven days, noon to noon, and the cruising grounds are the reason to take a catamaran from this particular dock: the Keys south, and the Gulf Stream crossing east to the Abacos and the wider northern Bahamas, both of which the company runs dedicated itineraries for. It shares an office building with Blue Water Sailing School, which is a separate business.
Crewed Miami / Southeast · West Palm Beach
Private sails for up to six on Carpe Vita, a 42-foot Fountaine Pajot Venezia catamaran, from the City Docks in downtown West Palm Beach. Sunset and celebration charters, a summer anchorage off Peanut Island for swimming and snorkelling, and longer runs down to the Keys.
Miami / Southeast · Delray Beach
Beach cats rigged on the sand at Casuarina Road and A1A, Hobie Wave, Getaway and Hobie 16, pushed straight into the Atlantic. Walk up and sail, with a refresher from the staff if you want one, a captain if you would rather be driven, and dry storage for your own boat.
Crewed Miami / Southeast · Coconut Grove
A 40-foot Beneteau on Biscayne Bay, skippered by Rodrigo Burgos from South Bayshore Drive in Coconut Grove, with pickups at Key Biscayne or South Beach. Private day trips for up to six; overnight and multi-day sails down to the Keys take four, with reef snorkeling on the way.