POSSE PERK: WEEKLY LIVE CALLS WITH LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS
POSSE PERK: WEEKLY LIVE CALLS WITH LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS
โ๏ธ Free Weekly live calls on Mondays via dedicated LINE.me group
The Ocean Posse has weekly, live, in-season calls dedicated to five different regions where posse members are cruising:
- The Pacific Americas Route (Beginning October 28 through June)
- The Caribbean Route (Beginning October 28 through June)
- The Atlantic Route (Beginning October 28 through June)
- The Mediterranean Route (Beginning October 28 through June)
- The South Pacific Route (In process now ending November 4th)
During the Weekly calls members join in to:
- Share any emergency or emergency relay needed
- update one another on location, any issues they may be having, or fun stuff they are doing
- Receive weather report from Captain Dietmar
- Questions people have for one another.
This weekly communication is a a little bit like a net and fulfills all the same functions.
OVERSEAS AND ONLINE: PASSPORT RENEWAL & VOTING
OVERSEAS AND ONLINE: USA PASSPORT RENEWAL & VOTING
As a US citizen, passports and voting rights are very important.ย Both can be kept up to date from afar...here's how:
After a two month beta trial, The United States Department of State has recently announced that Americans can now renew their passports online.ย ย This is new and additional staff has been hired to process the online system.ย The two caveats are for using this service: You must be located in the United States and your passport may not be expired by over 5 years.ย As of now, it is unclear if this new avenue of renewal will speed up the process overall or not.ย We will have to wait and see.
Americans have elections coming up locally and nationally.ย Are you registered to vote?ย Do you know that US Citizens living abroad can register to vote from overseas?
There are several online resource to help US citizens understand how to register to vote and vote from wherever they are when the time comes.ย Some useful sites include:
- https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/welcome-overseas-vote-from-abroad
- here you can learn all about overseas voting, what it means and terminology.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/smarter-living/american-vote-from-abroad.html
- here you can learn how to register and vote overseas
- https://www.fvap.gov/citizen-voter
- here you can register to vote from overseas and directly link to your state site with your registration and state specific options
- https://www.votefromabroad.org/
- Here you can also register or see a very clear state by state graphic of state voting acceptance procedure.
