2026 Captain’s Edition
The Offshore Passage Command Kit
Route, Watches, Power & Cooling
- 4 Documents, 1 Pack Across three clusters.
- 102 Pages / 8 Files A4 and US Letter of each.
- 3,581 Live Fields Interactive and 100% offline.
- You Keep $141 $388 bought separately.
Four things end long passages early: the decision nobody made ashore, the watch nobody could stand, the bank that ran flat, and the cooling circuit nobody had a baseline for.
The Offshore Passage Command Kit cuts across the catalogue by profile rather than by system. It is not the coastal cluster with more pages — it is the four registers that matter when the nearest help is a week away and nothing can be bought.
The four, and what each one prevents
- Offshore Passage Planning Workbook — fourteen dated routing reviews including the ones that made you wait, heavy-weather choices decided ashore with the source recorded, and consumables at a rate measured on your own boat. 25 pages.
- Watchkeeping Roster & Night Passage Log — sixteen competences mapped against every slot, so the hours with nobody aboard able to reef show up as a zero before you leave, not at 0300. 26 pages.
- 12V Load & Energy Budget Worksheet — 28 loads with the plate figure beside the figure measured at the shunt, split across at sea, at anchor, in harbour and laid up. 23 pages.
- Cooling & Exhaust Service Record — raw water temperature rise and exchanger effectiveness with a baseline set before you left, so a change mid-ocean is readable rather than alarming. 28 pages.
Why this combination
Because an offshore passage is a closed system. The energy budget decides how long the autopilot and the fridge can run, which decides how hard the watch system has to work, which is exactly what the competence matrix measures. And the one mechanical system you cannot do without at sea is the one whose failure begins as a temperature you would only notice against a baseline.
Before you order — what overlaps with the system kits
This pack is cut by profile, not by system, so all four of its documents also belong to a Command Kit. The Offshore Passage Workbook and the Watchkeeping Roster are part of the Passage Planning Command Kit; the 12V Load & Energy Budget Worksheet is part of the Electrical & Power Command Kit; the Cooling & Exhaust Service Record is part of the Engine & Drivetrain Command Kit.
If you already own one of those kits, buy the individual documents you are missing rather than this pack. If you own none of them, this is the shorter route.
What you receive
| Pack reference | AML-PACK-OFF |
| Documents | 4 · drawn from three different clusters |
| Extent | 102 pages across the four documents |
| Interactivity | 3,581 live PDF form fields |
| Models | 24 navigational and reduction models |
| Files | 8 — A4 and US Letter of each, all fillable and print-ready |
| Offline | No app, no account, no connection required once downloaded — which is the point |
The rule every document in the pack obeys
Not one published limit, tactic, watch system, consumption rate, tolerance or service interval anywhere in 102 pages. A printed heavy-weather tactic would be read as permission and a printed watch system knows nothing about your crew. You write your own, ashore, dated, with the source recorded beside each.
What it is not
These documents teach no navigation, no seamanship and no engineering. They are not a substitute for training, for sea miles, or for the judgement of the person in charge of the vessel — which remains theirs alone.
Bought separately, $388. As a pack, $247 — you keep $141.
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