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Anguilla's **$63M** marina expansion targets **$82M** annual yachting revenue by 2027, with Q4 2025 completion competing directly against St. Barts and Turks upgrades.
$2.4 billion
luxury yachting market
82
registered charter yachts and estimates current marine tourism revenue…
$47 million
annually—a figure officials believe understates actual spend by
40 percent
due to informal anchoring patterns
Anguilla's Department of Tourism announced a multi-year infrastructure program to capture a larger share of the Eastern Caribbean's $2.4 billion luxury yachting market, with Phase One marina upgrades scheduled for completion by Q4 2025. The island currently hosts 82 registered charter yachts and estimates current marine tourism revenue at $47 million annually—a figure officials believe understates actual spend by 40 percent due to informal anchoring patterns.
The strategy centers on three developments: expanding Road Bay's berthing capacity from 12 to 28 slips for vessels between 80 and 180 feet, installing a new 200-ton marine lift at Blowing Point, and creating a dedicated customs clearance facility for private yachts arriving from non-CARICOM jurisdictions. The total capital outlay is $63 million, with $22 million from Caribbean Development Bank lending and the remainder from a private consortium that includes a Cayman-domiciled family office with interests in three other Caribbean marinas. The government retained a 19 percent equity stake in the marina operating company.
Anguilla faces structural disadvantages. The island has no natural deepwater harbor. Vessels over 120 feet currently anchor offshore and tender passengers to beach clubs, creating friction for provisioning and crew logistics. St. Martin, 8 nautical miles northwest, offers full-service yards, bonded warehousing, and easier access to European charter clients. Anguilla's move is a bet that ultra-high-net-worth travelers will pay a premium for seclusion and fewer than 16,000 permanent residents, compared to St. Martin's 77,000 and the accompanying congestion.
The economic logic is straightforward. Each 150-foot charter yacht generates an estimated $14,000 per week in local spend—fuel, provisions, crew wages, excursions—versus $4,200 for a villa rental party of equivalent headcount. The island's hotel inventory is 1,134 keys, mostly in the $800-plus average daily rate segment. Yachting offers revenue without land-use constraints or the permitting delays that have stalled two resort projects since 2021. Officials project the new infrastructure could support 140 regular visiting yachts by 2027, implying incremental annual revenue near $82 million if utilization matches Antigua's Falmouth Harbour patterns.
Risk lies in timing and substitutes. St. Barts is expanding its Gustavia quay to accommodate six additional megayachts by late 2025. Turks and Caicos opened a $41 million superyacht marina in Grace Bay last year and is already 91 percent pre-leased for 2025-26 winter season. Anguilla's runway is 5,462 feet, limiting private jet access to Gulfstream G450s and smaller aircraft, while St. Barts and St. Martin handle G650s. The government has discussed runway extension, but no timeline or financing structure has been disclosed.
Operators should track construction milestones at Road Bay, which involve dredging 38,000 cubic meters of seabed and installing 1,200 linear meters of new floating dock. Any delay past Q4 2025 puts the project in direct competition with St. Barts' completed expansion. Allocators with exposure to Caribbean hospitality should note that the family office consortium leading the marina project also holds stakes in four Anguilla beach clubs, suggesting coordinated land-side and marine infrastructure plays. The first berthing contracts are expected to be marketed by March 2025, providing early demand signals.
Anguilla's yachting authority will release detailed berth pricing and annual lease structures in 14 weeks. That data will clarify whether the island is competing on cost or betting exclusively on scarcity value.
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