Marigot sits on the French side of Saint-Martin, an island shared with the Dutch Sint Maarten — two countries, one island, no border you can feel. You can breakfast on a French baguette and be anchored off a Dutch-side reef by lunch, all without clearing customs.

Tintamarre, just off Saint-Martin, is a flat uninhabited island surrounded by a marine reserve — and it is famous for one thing above all: sea turtles. Anchor, slip in, and within minutes you are swimming beside them in water so clear it looks like a swimming pool.

Sailors in the Caribbean will tell you the real secret is the trade winds: steady, warm and almost always from the east, they arrive like clockwork and give you perfect downwind sailing day after day. Plan your hops around them and you look like a genius — and your crew already has.

A catamaran this size does not heel, does not roll and does not rush. Your morning coffee stays in the cup, your guests stay in a good mood, and the skipper gets to look like the calmest person in the Caribbean.

Solar yachts are still rare in the Caribbean charter fleet, and the newest ones go first. If a silent anchorage, a fridge that never warms up and a week with zero generator noise sounds like your kind of holiday, do not wait for the calendar to fill up.