Thanks for the reply and I will absolutely take that advice.

We are sailing with Waypoints out of USVI. Our plan, to the extent you can have one, was to check-in on Monday at JVD then work our way up the north side of Tortola, around the eastern end of Tortola and make our way over to North Sound. Traversing the north side of Tortola into in a NE wind would seem to be worse option in terms of comfort as opposed to SFD channel. If I am off base about that, let me know.