More things for the checklists. Inform your credit card companies about the use of your cards and where you are going and the dates. Provide contact information for those left behind. In our case, Scott Bulger has Iridium phone numbers and paging addresses to get a hold of us over the next couple of months. We will most likely send him an email about every other day or so, which he can post and send to an internal list. This will most likely be a text only email unless we get access to a high speed line at some port along the way, in which case there may be pictures. There will be an official announcement as to where, what, when in about a week. Then you can quit guessing. Update your 406 EPIRB info using the online system accessible from the web. In our case I added dates and expected route to the "Additional info" box. I have turned off getting PUP and T&T postings but will be around the house until sometime tomorrow. I will check email every few hours until then. Capt. Mike Maurice Tualatin(Portland), Oregon