Bella Giornata

Her sister ship, CU Sailing II, sleeps eight in four cabins. Bella Giornata sleeps six in three, and that is exactly the point. She was built as the owner's version of the 2023 Lagoon 46: the whole port hull is a single master suite, and the starboard hull holds two double cabins. Every cabin has a head of its own, so three couples, or a family of up to six, can share a week aboard without anyone waiting for a bathroom in the morning.

The owner's suite is the reason to book her. One couple gets a double berth with space to walk around it, a desk and a place to sit, a big en-suite head where the shower is a stall of its own, and hanging lockers, all with a hull to themselves. Give it to the pair celebrating an anniversary, to the parents, or to whoever did the organising. The two guest doubles each have a private head too, so the arrangement feels fair even to the people who did not draw the suite.

Outside the cabins, the saloon is wrapped in windows, the galley is open to the aft cockpit so meals drift outside without effort, and the flybridge has the helm, some shade and a sunpad for whoever wants the sun. With six aboard instead of eight, each of those spaces simply has more room per person than it would on a fully booked four-cabin boat. On the first afternoon you hardly notice. By midweek, with snorkel gear drying, books left on cushions and nobody squeezing past anybody, it is the reason you chose her.

Her equipment list covers the things that matter in the islands: air conditioning, a generator, a watermaker backing up a 159-gallon tank, Bluetooth audio in the saloon and cockpit, a cockpit grill, a freshwater deck shower, snorkel gear for everyone and a stand-up paddleboard. Two 45 hp Yanmars do the motoring, and a full-batten main with a furling headsail does the sailing. She draws 4.3 feet, a few inches less than the two flagships, which gives a little more freedom in the shallows.

Three cabins suit an unhurried week. Spend two nights in Hope Town instead of one, climb the red-and-white lighthouse, and take the dinghy to Tahiti Beach at the southern tip of Elbow Cay when the sandbar is showing at low tide. Have lunch on Man-O-War, a cay with a long boatbuilding history, then work south through the quieter cays toward Little Harbour, timing its shallow entrance for high water. If the weather settles, Green Turtle Cay is a crossing of the Whale Cay passage away.

The trade-off is plain: she sleeps two fewer than CU Sailing II and costs slightly more. In the 2026/27 booking year her weekly rate runs from $7,312 in early August to $16,875 over Christmas and New Year, against $7,150 to $16,500 for her four-cabin sister. Add the mandatory Comfort Pack, $1,050 for the first week and $630 for each week after. The 10% Bahamian VAT is included in those rates, and the 4% cruising tax is charged separately. The refundable deposit is $1,500. Sail her bareboat with a qualified skipper aboard, or ask us to arrange a local skipper through Abaco Sail.