Here's a question for those who have made trans-oceanic or offshore
passages in recent years:

What's the best way you have found to send and receive email while at sea?

--Georgs

Georgs Kolesnikovs
Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering, formerly Trawler World, since 1997

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The Inmarsat system is our primary off shore e-mail service, with no monthly
fees and $.25 / 32 characters it is a great short message system with near
100% coverage. Long messages can wait for shore time.

We also have been very pleased with the GSM cell phone capabilities to send
text messages to either e-mail destinations or other cell phones at a very
reasonable cost and surprising off shore coverage.  Great for the
Mediterranean.

John Harris
World Odd @ Sea

I found Iridium worked fine for me crossing the Atlantic, and from Florida
to Panama to Seattle.

On Milt Baker's recommendation I got an email account with ocens.net which
speeded things up considerably.  They compress the email and then send it in
very large packets compared to normal IP traffic which eliminates a lot of
line turnarounds for acknowledgement packets as I understand it.

Hal