With our young daughters on a long charter. We would send the girls off to do something on Tortola for lunch and the day. Tortola is a big place with much to do. Over the years we have learned in some cases the hard way to never be in a rush to leave the dock. When everything is checked out, when everyone in the boat is ready, EVERYONE, then the boat leaves the dock +/-3. With lunch ashore somewhere on Tortola and at least some of the crew straight from the grocery store with fresh everything. Dinner on the boat somewhere quiet is a great first night for a young family.

If everyone is ready and the boat is fully ready great! Then leave at that time. What is gained in the rush? What are you passing up and leaving behind on Tortola. Even if that is the young girls spending a couple of hours in a freshwater pool while Mom reads. Some of the most miserable and frustrated Dad's I have met on vacation have been those skippers trying to heard bees and cats on the dock to match some schedule that is meaningless at the end of the day.

Our vacation schedule would be have breakfast together. Send Mom and the girls off to the pool, lunch, and the grocery while Dad fully inspects the boat with a plan to leave by 3.