[PUP] Documentation

[Dave Cooper]

I'd add a few more:

1. Make sure all crew members have Visa's in their passports for any country
you contemplate visiting.
2. Make sure all passports have a date of expiry beyond your intended return
OR plan on a stop in a country where there is a Embassy or Consulate. The
time to get passports renewed can be excruciating long. Nancy applied in May
and just got it via FedEx from Barbados last week!!
3. Make sure your EPRIB battery is up to date and that the registration also
is. You may need your EPRIB MMSI number
4. Copies of every prescription drug on board. Goof if the DEA boards you
and also good to get refills at less than US prices.
5. Copy of dinghy registration with numbers and OB numbers.
6. List of cigarettes/cigars on board
7. A few thousand in cash....$50 or $100's
8. Watch the use of ATM machines. There can be large fees and theft of your
account numbers. OTOH we've had good luck in places with checks written on
US Banks. Hard to believe!
9. We don't use credit cards again as they can be subject to local fees and
surcharges that you don't find out about till you are long gone.
10. Have copies of everything is a ditch bag. Then have copies of as many of
the above in a pouch secretly stashed aboard in a place that would require
destruction to get it if you didn't know it was there. Add a couple of
thousand in cash and hope that you never ever have to see it. This is for
the day that the boat is robbed clean.
10 Have an old wallet or purse with some old expired CC cards and a few
hundred in cash to surrender to any banditos that you find on the other end
of a gun or knife. Makes them happy and might keep you & yours alive.

Must be more but that's all I can think of right now.

As always YMMV....


Dave & Nancy
Swan Song
Roughwater 58