Peanut Island sits right at the mouth of the Lake Worth Inlet, and its surrounding sandbar turns into one of the liveliest anchorages on the Florida coast. You do not visit it by road — you anchor, swim off the transom and watch the boats drift past. That is the whole afternoon.

Key West is the southernmost point of the continental United States — 90 miles from Cuba and closer to Havana than to Miami. That is why the light feels different, the water is that impossible turquoise, and the sunsets attract a crowd that claps when the sun finally drops. You get the same show from your own deck.

Miami’s Biscayne Bay hides a string of uninhabited spoil islands with no roads, no buildings and no crowds — just sand, mangroves and shallow water. Locals call them the best-kept secret on the coast. Anchor there for lunch and you will understand why.

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 captain gets to look like the calmest person in the Florida Keys.

Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States, held back by the Hoover Dam and ringed by red desert rock. There is no ocean swell, no tide and no salt — just warm, flat water and canyon walls glowing at sunset. It is the strangest, most beautiful anchorage in the country.