A large white sailing cruise ship with multiple tall masts and billowing sails traveling across calm blue water under a clear sky, with a tree-lined shoreline in the background.

Windstar Cruises

Star Collector: Caribbean Explorations

Caribbean

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Wind Surf

Five masts, seven computer-driven sails, and a hull that spent eight years as Club Med 1

Aboard

  • Five masts carrying seven self-furling triangular sails, roughly 26,000 square feet of them
  • Built at Le Havre in 1989 as La Fayette and renamed Club Med 1 that January
  • Bought by Windstar in 1998; her sister Club Med 2 still sails for Club Med
  • Diesel-electric underneath, with four generating sets driving two electric motors
  • Phase one of the Setting Sails refit landed in early 2025; the staterooms follow in December 2026
  • Caribbean winters from Philipsburg, Mediterranean summers, and the crossings in between

Ashore

Where You Stop

Philipsburg

Basseterre

Caribbean

The Caribbean

The most-sailed water on earth, and the easiest cruise to fall in love with, short flights, warm water twelve months a year, and a different island every morning.

Best Time to Go
December through April, outside hurricane season
Typical Length
5 to 8 nights
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December 27, 2027This sailing
January 3, 2028