Thank you for the feedback, everyone.

Given our timeline and schedule, is there a route or direction that would be more or less favourable? It'd be great to break out of the Saturday-Saturday swarm, whether that means going in the opposite direction of most, or lingering. Can that work? Is it worth it?

Kegoangoango, when you say there aren't a lot of areas to anchor anymore, what exactly do you mean? Is anchoring not allowed in some areas? Or is it because they are so crammed full of moorings that there is no room? If there are free mooring are we obligated to use them, even if there is sufficient space?

GeorgeC1, just to clarify, it will be us who will be leaving our friends for the final week so that they have one week aboard to themselves. We each get a week plus the shared week. The plan is that we'll spend our last night in Trellis so that they can dinghy us ashore in the morning and we can walk to the airport.