Somebody spent five years and what looks like six figures fixing everything I'd worry about, and now I have to decide if I believe the paperwork.
I kept two versions of our Indian Ocean crossing alive for a year. This summer's Red Sea attacks settled it, and the Cape route asks more of the boat than I'd budgeted for.
I sat down to read about windlass amp draw and fell into a BoatUS claims-data hole instead — now I can't unsee what it says about multihulls.
Nineteen Lagoon 450s on one brokerage page, split cleanly into charter and never-chartered. I itemized where the price gap goes, and it is almost exactly the refit bill.
On this leg the passage and the weather cycle are the same length, and the insurance date doesn't care about the window.
On August 17, Global Roam died and Roam Unlimited shrank to 30 days abroad at a time. For a family boat that will not fly home every month, that is not a pricing tweak. It is a plan rewrite. Here is how I am re-speccing Starlink for a circumnavigation with four kids.
Three Victron batteries priced out to the dollar, and one clause in the new ABYC E-13 that made me stop trusting the total.
Cannes opens Tuesday with the Lagoon 47, FP 48, Outremer 48 and five others going in the water. I re-sorted all eight by the number the brochures bury, and it's the only ranking that tells you what each boat is actually for.
I read this one backward — the only chapter I really needed was written by a dozen kids who already did what we're about to do to ours.
The four GRIB lines I won't untie from Galápagos without have to come from a workflow that still works when Starlink is dark. I'm buying PredictWind Professional from Bend. The boat can wait.
Starlink will carry 95% of our bits across the Pacific. This is about the other 5% — and why I'm happy to pay $1,800 a year for a device I hope never leaves its Pelican case.
The ARC+ entry list is the closest thing I've found to a revealed-preference survey of people who actually cross oceans, and it doesn't say what the brochures say.
