The keys here are simple: Do not announce your
route. Do not post information about places you've been until you are some distance away from it. Do NOT placate your relatives using SPOT Messenger. Fine going to the
Caribbean, sure, why not...fine doing Halifax-Cork, but they are just going to have to wait for the postcards, old
school style, rather than
posting a freakin' INTERACTIVE MAP of your last position. Might as well change the name of the
boat to "Sitting Duck".
Pretend that the
Internet is one big party line, like the
VHF, and conduct yourself accordingly.
One of the joys of cruising is that, short of activating an
EPIRB, nobody knows, or needs to know, your location. You go when you go, and show when you show.