Thank you Lex, Dayhiker, Deepcut, and Rush for the replies! Appreciate all the tips, advice, and sharing your experiences.

We will not have a water maker, so sounds like docking along the way is in the cards for us. Good way to add practice and up our experience level right? I think that's the way I looked at it when I passed on the pre-paid fuel option when I arranged the charter earlier. Although I will look at the express check out option again if it might help us squeeze another night of cruising in.

"Slow is pro" are words we try to live by and hopefully will serve us well in BVI.