Roam Unlimited still works for US/Canada seasons. Personal Maritime is the plan that removes the 30-day abroad clock — if Starlink accepts your papers. Here is the eligibility friction, the 40-to-60 ft change, and how I am choosing for a family boat that will not fly home every month.
PredictWind's original DataHub still does the jobs that matter on a family cruiser. The Pro is faster, has built-in LTE, and is Starlink Direct-to-Cell ready — at roughly double the hardware price. Here is when I would spend the upgrade money, and when I would not.
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.
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 most popular downwind sail in the ARC fleet disappointed three out of four owners who counted on it. Here's what I'd order instead, with prices.
Six people in a dinghy is two trips, an overload, or a different dinghy than the one you thought you wanted. Nine months of pencil work and four constraints later, here is what I am buying.
Real product names, real weights, real prices. The ground tackle list I'm building before the boat — and where I'd spend more than the chart says to.
Three watermakers, three failure modes, and I still don't know which one I want at 200 miles offshore with four kids aboard.
The biggest multihull show ever doesn't tell you much by itself. The trends in the boats moored four-deep at La Grande-Motte do.
A watermaker stops being a luxury the first time you try to hand-jerry 200 liters of diesel-tainted water from a dock hose in the Tuamotus. For
The engine is the single piece of gear on a cruising boat that owners least want to think about and most need to trust. For a passage from
