Back to Australia

I have just updated my emergency contacts info for my emergency locator beacon on Island Prism and you are all listed as my emergency contacts.

That means that if my beacon goes off then they will call you right away to tell you that my beacon is going off. Then they will ask if me and my boat and my beacon are in the general area of where the beacon has gone off. So if I am sailing to Sydney, say, two weeks from now and the beacon goes off they will ask if I was sailing around Sydney. When you confirm that I was sailing around Sydney then they will believe this is not a false alarm and they will come looking for me.

My beacon has a built in GPS and it will transmit its exact location so my rescue should be swift and easy, as long as I am still close to the beacon and have not been eaten by sharks or abducted by aliens.

I will send emails to you guys when I leave port and set out on a sailing adventure. As it stands right now, I hope to be finished the work on Prism before Oct 24th and put her into the water then and start adventuring down the Australian coast towards Sydney. Most likely my greatest problem will be all those freighters, there seem to be an awful lot on that coast.

Ok guys, thanks for letting me use your phone numbers on the contact lists, hopefully they will never call you.