I am having some trouble uploading my entire post so I will break this into multiple submissions:

I wanted to pass along our recent experience in the event that it helps someone else down the road. The reason I am passing along the feedback is that I that I am sure there are other people like ourselves that could become a little too complacent with the perceived safety associated with boating in an area like the BVIs where you can almost always see land and tend to have relatively calm seas.