Key West Sailing Adventure
Private Sailing Charters
305.304.4911
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Wherever you are today, the weather in Key West is perfect for your wedding, honeymoon, or engagement any time of the year. In Key West winter is non-existent, we reap the benefits of a subtropical climate, you will discover that November through April, temperatures hover in the 70-to 80’s.
The pristine waters that surround the Florida Keys are the backdrop for a movie-like setting for any special event, especially your a wedding. When it’s extremely cold everywhere in the nation, Key West is warmer than even Miami. Then while the summers elsewhere are terribly hot, it is a milder with an average 88-92 degrees in Key West. It’s always tropical and lush with flowers in bloom and green all year round.
Our crew watches weather conditions to make sure you pick the best time to go sailing off for your special wedding or engagement vacation or sunset event. Summers may have quick thunderstorms on an occasion, they typically pass within minutes, larger storms are far less common. With your comfort and safety always in mind we will help you plan your day.
However you wish to be wed or engaged, a sail-boat is a wonderful option for a romantic wedding and honeymoon.
Our standard wedding/honeymoon packages are fully customizable
Choose from any of the our charter packages and add-on to your special experience. We are happy to accommodate your wishes. When we invite and encourage you to become part of your fantasy wedding or engagement, second honeymoon or restate your vows in your own personal charter package, tell the crew what you dream about finding while away from the docks; bird watching, fishing, dolphin watching, diving a wreck, snorkeling the most beautiful secret spots, learn a little about sailing, or just relax. We gladly cater to your special or custom requests. . . choose the style of your flower arrangements, cake flavor, and style of dress code; formal, casual or pirate!
Our guests on a wedding, honeymoon, engagement vacation may choose to sail off for their wedding at sea, stay on anchor under the stars with dinner after the ceremony with your crew opposite the master cabin. Days are spent anyway desired, from fishing in the Atlantic basin, Gulf or Mexico snorkeling in several special spots on the reefs, or diving to view a wreck, watch for dolphins and turtles or large fish jumping out of the sea; to taking the helm and pulling up sails together to commemorate their time together with many wonderful photo opportunities. Our crew can take pictures of you on the bow, at the helm, in the water, while your wedding is happening, our crew works for you. It’s whatever you desire. Tell our captain and mate what you really want to do and see while at sea.
While aboard and under-way couples can interact with crew navigating, setting sails, anchoring. By interacting with the guests, our crew gives a true insight to the nautical way of life while they live out a fantasy having literally sailed into the sunset starting out their new life.
Call 305-304-4911 to create a simple wedding with us. Start with the basics and add as you please. If something is needed to be placed on the boat ask us!
Basic Packages and Prices
Vows with a nautical theme or your own, notary or Reverend to perform ceremony, wedding cake, bridal bouquet and groom boutonniere, food trays, decorating, sunset weddings are approximately two or three hours, start at $1595.00 and the captain and mate appreciate your gratuities.
Wedding and three day honeymoon packages are fully customizable start at $2,945.00 tap & call contact us and build any way you wish. Gratuities may be added to your credit card, VISA, Master Card or make a deposit with your Discover card.
Gay Marriage
Now in Monroe County, and throughout Florida as of January 2015, our gay and lesbian couples are legal to marry.
One of our local friends was the first to be able to enjoy this right.
We welcome people from all walks of life and as of January we can join any two people in marriage within the state of Florida. We have performed countless commitment ceremonies in the past and are excited to be able to offer marriage.
Every couple deserves a dream wedding. Fantasize and picture perfectly how your memories would be with your own personal “at sea” wedding. Then why not be unique with your own dream boat, a wedding setting actually on board a sailboat!
Previous Wedding, Honeymoon, and Engagement Charters
Some of our guests have chosen to marry on one of the boats then take an extended sail as honeymoon, others have designed a week charter taking the middle 2 or 4 nights in a sailing getaway and stay back at the docks part of their vacation wedding package to walk to the historic downtown just minutes away from the sailboats.
Many of our sunset sails have been used for engagements. One charter was arranged with a message in a bottle. Another engagement happened when our mate hid the ring in a conch shell on the reef so she could find it.
The Key West Sailing Experience
Our sailboats are solid fiberglass with teak wood interiors. The sailboats are designed with safety and comfort in mind, with less rocking associated with sailboats. Also, the marina is protected on three sides for comfortable sleeping and very little noise ever at the docks with 24 hour security on deck. Low tech simple life, and easy to access and relax charters choose to go find a party, a museum, night life and any of dozens of restaurants and bars nearby with live music and wonderful local favorite foods.
Charter guests on a honeymoon may want to sit on the bow and just enjoy the quiet and sound of the water kissing the sides of the sailboat. Bring a book, sun bathe and enjoy each other’s company while our safety minded crew does all the cooking, cleaning and guiding each charter as to what is desired. Interaction is whatever level you want, just let the crew know you need some romantic privacy and they will gladly give you quiet time and space alone.
Off dock excursions include every meal and non-alcohol beverage or juices breakfast, lunch and dinner plus snacks arranged easily in advance by emails. Your entire menu is planned and shopped for by our first mate in charge of your cruise.
After one, two, or more nights having at sea adventures, some guests like to return to the marina, finishing their honeymoon while staying at the dock for the downtown experience shopping and sightseeing in Key West where we dock. After learning about sailboat living and have spent time sailing, it’s a great time to discover Key West.
When you call, tell us about your ideas and we can compare thoughts to customize what you may never have even thought possible in a wedding vacation.
Enjoy the beautiful city of Key West
Nearby sights and sounds such as Mallory Square Arts Sunset Festival nightly is easy to finding just by walking along the harbor. Plan a day to learn about the old Hemingway and wreckers stories, tour museums, and ask about how the Atocha treasure was found. Tour a natural butterfly sanctuary. Enjoy many art galleries featuring local, international and eclectic artists from the islands. Round out your visit with getting into the uniqueness of an island community like Key West.
Enjoy touring a little town that has its roots in old seafarers’ history, sponge fishing, conch harvesting, fishing and shrimping that built the special personality of the island of Key West. Taking a walking tour or a conch train maybe a trolley tour then find time to take an evening ghost tour of the old part of town and put yourself into a time machine. See the historic homes that were taken apart in the far away islands from Green Turtle Bay and rebuilt in downtown old Key West. Architecture in Key West presents as a living museum and testament to the simple ways of island style living.
The historic district homes are protected with strict rules on how to paint, repair and keep the original intact condition of the homes as close as to what the 100 plus year old homes looked like. There is a state park that if time allows, rent a bicycle or have a taxi take you to spend a day at Fort Zachary Taylor Park. Have a lunch under the whispering pines native to the Bahamas and Caribbean islands, either pick up a sandwich from a restaurant nearby, or bring your own fixings and briquettes and cook your meal yourself at an outdoor grill or make it easy and partake of the beach menu at the snack bar. Tour the old fort. Walk around the island’s point where the two oceans meet, Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Watch the big tall ships come and go. With umbrella and chair rentals with kayaks for rent too, plan a day utilizing their services and pack a bag for the day bring a change of clothes as there are outdoor showers and bathrooms to get the sand out of your toes.
Key West Events
While on your honeymoon vacation, check in advance to see if there are special events including street fairs or art and craft fairs, or what type of groups may be in town. February 14th marks the beginning of the busy “season” as it is called and blends into March and April spring break which keeps the town lively for a few weeks. April through August is a quieter time with many beautiful sunny days to enjoy. Motorcycle groups come in September for their poker run as a fund raiser. It may be noisier than you would like. For those who fancy bigger boat races November is when the big toys for big boys comes to town. Be aware that it can be a busy time but also an exciting time if that is a fun thing for you to enjoy. Some of our charters ask to schedule extra time on the sailboat to be on the sidelines of the power boat races.
Then, Fantasy Fest is more like the bawdy New Orleans Mardi Gras in late October; check the dates as scantily clad revellers abound; but you may wish to be a part of this two week celebration as well. December has wonderful lit up boat parade and lights in town, and later in the month, prepare to see one or more of three different types of New Year’s Eve ball drops from a drag queen in a large shoe to a conch drop or a wrench drop from a mast on a large schooner. Sailboat races often called the wreckers races are usually later in January. Key West has something for everyone and can match any time of the year to your dreams.
You may ask, when is it the perfect time to come to Key West and stay aboard a sailboat? Just about any time you wish; as with our charters, you may choose to stay and play or get away from it all and get married and stay away from the docks.
We're waiting for you, call 305-304-4911 today!
As the saying goes, if you can dream it we can do it for you. Our desire since 1995 is to allow you to “live like a local and play like a millionaire” with the consideration that if the weather and your plans need to change we adapt as any good sailor on an island would do. Relax and be flexible to have the wedding and sailboat vacation of a lifetime right in the continental United States. Key West Sailing Adventures, Inc. has been one of the Key West's best kept secrets while enjoying returning guests who once married come back for their anniversaries and you could too. For many years, we have had the pleasure watching our previous charters who are now friends come back with their young children after the wedding and share a nautical experience as a new family. Bring back friends and stay while on an anniversary or pick a special mile marker birthday even book two or more of the three boats and have celebrations we have been able to help create.