In August 2026, Starlink ended borderless cruising as we knew it: Global Roam gone, and a 30-day clock on roaming outside your account's home country. Every cruising boat in the Pacific is now doing the same maths — and getting it wrong costs you your weather routing, your comms and your income, usually mid-passage, usually at the worst possible moment.

We wrote the free explainer on what changed and the free guide to the four levers that keep you connected. The free guides give you the understanding. The Playbook turns it into your plan — the worksheets, decision trees and step-by-step checklists that take your actual route, your actual account and your actual budget, and give you a season that never goes dark.

What's in the playbook

  • The Season SequencerA fill-in worksheet that maps your cruising calendar against the 30-day clock, month by month — so you see the gap before the gap sees you.
  • The Plan Decision TreeOne page: your season shape in, the right plan strategy out — Roam, Priority months, localisation or a mix, without re-reading forum threads at midnight.
  • The Localisation ChecklistThe full account-country move, step by step — what to do before, during and after, what breaks, and the traps that lock people out of their own dish.
  • The Priority-Months Cost SheetA fill-in comparison of every strategy priced for your route — because the cheapest plan on paper is rarely the cheapest across a whole season.
  • The Cut-off Day RunbookExactly what to do, in order, if the clock runs out with you still offshore — written to be printed and used with no internet, which is rather the point.
  • The Backup Comms ChecklistThe Iridium-and-paper layer every offshore boat needed anyway — what's essential, what's theatre, and what we actually carry.

USD $29 · one-time · updates included

PDF playbook plus printable worksheets — and here's the part that matters: when Starlink changes the rules again, we update the pack and you get it free, through the end of the 2026–27 season. You're not buying a snapshot; you're buying our homework, kept current.

Launching soon. Join the list and you'll get the launch email — with a launch discount for subscribers.

Why it's $29 when the guides are free

The guides will stay free — that's how you found us. The Playbook is the working version: the documents you fill in with your own dates and route, print for the nav station, and hand to whoever's standing watch when the plan matters. One month of Priority bought unnecessarily costs more than this pack several times over. One season sequenced right pays for it before you've left the marina.

Honest questions, honest answers

Is this about breaking Starlink's rules?

No — the opposite. Every strategy in the Playbook uses Starlink's own plans, products and account options as they're designed to work. The problem isn't that cruisers need to cheat; it's that the options are confusing, the stakes are high, and the good information is scattered across a hundred forum threads. We've done the sorting.

What happens when Starlink changes everything again?

They will — they've done it twice since we bought our dish. That's exactly why the pack includes updates through the 2026–27 season: when the rules move, we re-test the levers, revise the worksheets and email you the new version. Free.

I'm not in the Pacific — is it still relevant?

The worksheets are route-agnostic: the 30-day clock, the plan options and the localisation process work the same in the Caribbean, the Med or Southeast Asia. Our examples are Pacific because that's where we sail, but the method travels.

What if it's not useful?

Email us within 30 days and we'll refund it, no questions. We're cruisers; our reputation in this community is worth more than $29.

Keep reading free: what changed in August 2026, the four levers explained, and connecting PredictWind through Starlink. Buying a boat as well as a dish? There's a Buyer's Pack for that decision too.