Only eccentrics go without long-distance comm. Single Sideband still works, but everybody else has one of the many satellite communications systems.
Without such comm you can't even get the weather products--GRIBS and surface analysis charts--which nowadays greatly reduce sailing into gales and hurricanes.
All I have is a rented sat phone, a laptop and UUPlus, one of many email/weather fetching programs. It's very hard on those left behind not be informed of current position. To ask others to worry more than necessary is a rotten thing to do.
It's all very easy today. In real time, anybody interested could follow my progress as this link updated every day. Click on any day for a brief log entry.
All by email. Personally I restrict phone calls to once a week for 10 minutes only, ostensibly to preserve satphone time, but really to preserve the nature of the offshore experience.
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