Virgin Islands Nautical Chart

Virgin Islands Nautical Chart
USVI and BVI — Anegada to St. Croix
 
Most popular: 32″ w x 22" h, printed on archival paper.
 
This hand-drawn nautical chart of the US and British Virgin Islands spans from Anegada to St. Croix, blending old-world cartography with the spirit of the islands.
 
The idea for this chart formed around an idyllic day on the water. The trade wind is represented by a misty Saint Ursula, gently playing with the magnificent frigatebirds overhead and filling the sails of an old sailing ship.
 
The chart includes most bays and anchorages in the Virgin Islands, along with reefs, shoals, and drops familiar to fishermen, sailors, and divers. You’ll find pelicans, frigatebirds, sea turtles, a nurse shark, a spotted eagle ray, bottlenose dolphins, and game fish woven into the chart, alongside my mermaids and sea monsters.
 
While these charts are hand-drawn and designed to stir the imagination, they are grounded in real geography. I work from GPS data, satellite imagery, and modern charts, translating them through the lens of traditional cartography. Like the charts of old, they balance accuracy with imagination — though I’d still advise against navigating by any map that includes a mermaid or sea monster.

These are for remembering, dreaming, and planning the next adventure.
 
The original artwork was 44 × 30 inches on Arches paper, drawn entirely by hand in India ink and layered with watercolor washes to create an antique-style finish. It’s a piece meant to be lived with — for those who feel at home in the islands.
 
Pour a rum, sit back, and let this map take you back to days on the water in the Virgin Islands — or forward to the ones you haven’t had yet.
 
If you were wondering, Christopher Columbus named the Virgin Islands in honor of St. Ursula.
 
Technical Details:
Printed using a museum-quality giclée process with archival pigmented inks on fine art paper or canvas
With proper care, prints are designed to retain their color and detail for decades
Paper and rolled canvas prints ship in reinforced protective tubes
Stretched canvas prints ship flat
Images shown online are watermarked; your print will arrive without watermarks
Rolled canvas is available for collectors who prefer custom framing or stretching, and for oversized works