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For more than ten years we have sailed a single yacht out of Plaza Resort Marina. One boat, one crew, one honest way of doing things. We don't sell the most tickets on Bonaire — we sell the most considered ones.
Whether the wind takes us along the leeward coast for a quiet morning sail, or out toward Klein Bonaire for an aperitivo as the sun goes down, the rhythm is set by the sea, not by the schedule.
Compass Bonaire · Plaza Resort Marina
Glassware, not plastic. Real food, not chips and dip.
Aperitivos prepared each morning in our marina kitchen — Bonaire fish, citrus from local groves, the occasional touch of caviar. Wines from Spain and the south of France. Coffee real, not from a pod. The small things, considered.
A boat at sea is the smallest country a person can belong to.
— Logbook, May 2024Our crew sailed Compass from Barcelona in February 2026 — across the Mediterranean, through the Strait of Gibraltar, down to Las Palmas in the Canaries, on to Mindelo in Cabo Verde, then nineteen days east-to-west across the Atlantic on the trade winds to St. Lucia. From there, a final reach across the Caribbean Sea to her home in Bonaire. Ten weeks of passage sailing. The yacht you board at Plaza Marina is the same one we delivered ourselves, mile by mile, to the Caribbean.
Compass is a Bavaria C46 — a 14-metre cruising yacht designed by Maurizio Cossutti, built in Germany in 2023. Twin wheels, a teak deck, a sheltered cockpit, and enough sail area to make the most of Bonaire's reliable trade winds.
She sleeps eight in private cabins, but on day sails she carries no more than ten guests — a deliberate ceiling that keeps the deck uncrowded and the experience considered.
Cockpit · Plaza Marina
Carlos and his crew run something unusual: a sailing trip that actually feels like sailing. Quiet, attentive, beautifully timed. We asked them to make our anniversary special — they did.
Off our cruise ship for four hours and onto the cleanest, calmest yacht we've ever set foot on. Back at the dock with twenty minutes to spare. This is how it should be done.
The Caribbean has its share of party catamarans. Compass is the opposite — a single yacht, a small group, real wine in real glasses. It made the holiday.
We sail from a single, sheltered slip at the Van der Valk Plaza Resort Marina — five minutes from Flamingo Airport and ten from downtown Kralendijk. Our briefing happens in the shade of the marina's open-air terrace.