My wife wouldn't consider going out of sight of land for years and wouldn't do the delivery trip from France to St Lucia with me. However, she did do the onward trip from St Lucia to BVI and absolutely loved it. Eventually she got to the state where, like me, she was happier far away from land in deep water where there are fewer things to hit.

The BVI to St Martin or Saba is probably not the run to introduce your better half to blue water though as that can be a truly horrible upwind trip. You are much more likely to have a successful introduction to blue water if you do a downwind trip from say Antigua or St Martin to the BVI. Looks as though Kevin either got lucky with the upwind bit or edited out the bad bits