As *CG is no longer a means to telephone the Coast Guard, the contact numbers for USCG Rescue Coordination Centers would be a useful addition to this thread, to keep onboard for SAT phones, and for whomever you leave your float plan with.

Boston MA RCC (617)223-8555

Atlantic SAR Coordinator in Portsmouth VA, which oversees Boston, (757)398-6231

Link to full USCG RCC contact list
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opr/rcc's.htm

I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day.

�Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.�
-- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea