9 Summer Cocktails for a Yacht Trip. Easy Recipes

From light, refreshing to warming, these nine summer cocktails are suitable for any weather – whether on a yacht or to make at home. Rum, gin, tequila, vodka – choose your favorite ingredient, surprise your friends, and go ahead, try new flavors! For perfect preparation, you will need a shaker & a juicer.

The Elderflower Cooler

This drink is light, refreshing, “diet”, and contains a “fashionable” ingredient like elderberry.

50 ml	Gin
	A few slices of fresh cucumber
	Mint leaves
30 ml	Elderflower cordial (or lavender / rose)
20 ml	Fresh lime
	Soda water

How to prepare

1. Fill a tall glass halfway with ice cubes.
2. Pour in the gin.
3. Add a 2-3 cucumber slices & fresh mint leaves.
4. Pour the cordial, 🍋‍🟩 juice.
5. More ice.
6. Top with chilled soda water.
7. Stir.
8. Garnish with a cucumber piece and a mint leaf.

Painkiller

45	Rum (54.5%)
90	Pineapple juice
22.5	Orange fresh
15	Coconut cream
4 drops	Daiquiri bitter (to taste)
	Grated nutmeg (garnish)

Preparation

1. Pre-chill a tall glass.
2. Shake the ingredients with a couple of ice cubes in a shaker.
3. Pour everything into a highball with more ice, through a strainer.
4. Sprinkle the cocktail with grated nutmeg, top with a pineapple wedge.

Pina Colada

You may think it’s a bit cliché, but this tropical drink, created in 1978 in Puerto Rico, has become a bestseller during the summer tourist season thanks to its refreshing and creamy taste.

25 mℓ	White rum
100 mℓ	Fresh pineapple juice
50 mℓ	Coconut cream / milk

Preparation

1. Mix white rum, fresh pineapple juice, and coconut cream into a blender.
2. Blitz with ice until smooth and creamy.
3. Pour into a glass.
4. Garnish with a pineapple triangle and coconut shavings.

Cosmopolitan

40	Vodka
15	Triple sec
75	Cranberry juice
	Juice of 1 🍋‍🟩
	Grapefruit soda or bitter

Steps

1. In a highball full of ice, pour the vodka and Triple sec.
2. Squeeze the juice of one lime, add cranberry juice.
3. Shake.
4. Garnish with orange twist or lime wedge.

Sea Breeze

This drink was invented over a hundred years ago, at the end of the Prohibition era, using gin and grenadine pomegranate syrup. Since then, the recipe has been reinterpreted several times: from gin and apricot brandy to a modern interpretation of vodka, cranberry and grapefruit juice.

50	Vodka
150	Cranberry 🧋
50	Grapefruit juice

Recipe

1. In a tall or “double old-fashioned” glass with ice, mix all ingredients.
2. Garnish with lime.
3. Add a soda water or tonic.

Non-alcoholic – Virgin Mary

Inspired by its alcoholic “sister”, the drink contains all the same ingredients, but without vodka. It goes well with breakfast or as a hangover remedy.

100 mℓ	Tomato juice
50 mℓ	Lime juice
A few dashes	Worcestershire sauce or Tabasco
	Celery salt
	Freshly ground black pepper
2 dashes	Hot pepper sauce
25 mℓ (optional)	Vodka

Preparation steps

1. Add the liquid ingredients to a glass with ice.
2. Stir.
3. Add sauce, salt, pepper to taste.

The Canarian Mojito rum cocktail

50 ml	Honey rum
30 ml	Banana liqueur
25 ml	Lime juice
25 ml	liquid sugar
30 ml	Soda
	Mint leaves
	Lime slices

How to prepare

1. Gently muddle mint leaves and 4 🍋‍🟩 wedges in a glass.
2. Fill ice.
3. In a shaker, mix rum, banana liqueur, lime juice, and sugar.
4. Strain into the highball.
5. Top up with soda water.

Margarita

Our list of cocktails cannot be complete without this timeless classic.

60 mℓ	Tequila
30 mℓ	Triple sec
30 mℓ	Fresh lime
To taste	Sea salt / sugar for rim of the glass

Whiskey Peach Smash

60 ml	Whiskey or bourbon
1 teaspoon	Lemon juice
30 ml	syrup
3 slices	Peach
	Soda water

Safety first!

While enjoying your summer cocktails, always remember to stay safe on board: don’t drive while drinking. Alcohol is a common cause of accidents. Be responsible!