Type it once. We’ll fill in the forms.

How it works

1. Unlock it. Enter the licence key from the email after you buy a kit, or your Captain’s Log / Patreon code. Checkout opens soon. Paid subscribers use their member code in the same box.
2. Fill in your boat, crew and pets, once. The same details carry over to the next country, so you’re not typing passport numbers again in Tonga.
3. Answer the country questions. Tips sit right next to the fields: Official (what the government says, with the date we checked) and Some Tuesday (what happened to us, dated). Live warnings flag the classic mistakes, like a passport expiring too soon, a titer test outside the window, or arriving in Tonga on a Sunday.
4. Review and download. The tool fills in the official PDFs and adds a checklist cover sheet: what to sign, where to send it, and when. Signature lines are left blank for you. Portal countries get a numbered answer sheet, one step at a time, so you can copy across.
5. You sign and send. The tool never signs, emails or submits anything. That part’s yours.

What each country gets

Fiji

Form C2-C, passenger arrival cards (one per person), the statement by the master or owner, the live-animal bonding form, and the pet import application (marked not for submission when you’re going the bond route).

Cook Islands

CICS 029v2, the biosecurity vessel master’s certificate, the inward crew list, the port-of-call declaration, and an answer sheet for the Biosecurity Word notice. The pet bond form is included when pets are aboard, and you use it only if they ask. The live-animal import permit is included only if you’re actually importing. CICS 040 is the small-craft outward report. CICS 027 is included if you’re arriving outside a Customs port. CICS 039 is included only if the boat is not a small craft. Next to the CICS 029v2 download the tool shows customs.craft@cookislands.gov.ck (the form misprints that as .gov.k) and a subject line filled from your boat: ANA, boat name, sail number if you have one, ETA as dd/mm/yyyy. Keep a copy of that email. Biosecurity also asks for the port and date at moa.biosecurity@cookislands.gov.ck. We emailed only the Customs ANA and had no problems, so that Biosecurity email is officially requested and optional in our experience. The Vessel Master’s Certificate is in the same download. CICS 038 and CICS 006 aren’t in the tool. Get the blanks from Customs forms.

Tonga

The Customs advance notice of arrival. You also get C15 outward clearance, C31 after-hours attendance, and the border currency report, but only when they apply. C21, the extension of a temporary import, is filled with the boat and the person in charge. You write the reason and the dates.

French Polynesia

Answer sheets in the same order as the online portals (the declaration for arrivals from 1 September 2026, the biosecurity boarding request, and the pet import request), numbered so you can copy one line at a time. Plus the vet paperwork PDFs, one per animal. The old paper Form 211A is legacy, for reference only, and it stays off unless you ask for it. The online pet application replaced it.

Always the current forms

We check every form against the official source at least weekly, and the tool shows the date each blank was last checked. If a country changes a form, we update it.

Why we built this

by Steve

Meghan and I live aboard Some Tuesday, our Lagoon 450S catamaran, with our two pugs, Mr. Pickles and Colonel Mustard. We left Los Angeles on December 3, 2025 to sail around the world over five years. So far the sailing has been the easy part.

Clearing in has been a slog in nearly every country. Each one has its own stack of paperwork, and a lot of it asks for the same boat details, passport numbers and crew lists you just wrote out for the last country. With dogs aboard it gets a lot more involved. French Polynesia’s online system was the hardest for us: clunky, confusing, and you can’t get around it. Then in Tahiti the official vet had to inspect the pugs in person, aboard the boat. So I picked her up in the dinghy and ran her out to Some Tuesday in the anchorage.

The thing is, most of what you really need to know isn’t on any government website. It spreads by word of mouth. Just the other day Jason from Big Dog texted me asking about the check-in procedures in Pangai. That’s how this stuff gets around: a text, a chat on the radio, a conversation at the bar.

My goal is to put it all in one place, easy to find, easy to use, and up to date. The official rules, linked straight to the source. What actually happened when we did it. And a forms tool that fills in the official paperwork for you, so you type your boat and crew details once instead of in every country.

We’re cruisers, and we built this for cruisers. It won’t make clearing in effortless, and your experience will be different from ours in places. But it should save you a lot of time and head-scratching. If you find something that’s changed, tell us, and we’ll fix it for the next boat.

See you out there.
Steve (and Meghan, Mr. Pickles and Colonel Mustard)

Where’s Some Tuesday now?

Questions

Does Some Tuesday file my paperwork?

No, never. We sell information and a do-it-yourself tool. You check, sign and send everything yourself. We’re not a customs agent or yacht agent. Fiji has required a licence for yacht agents since 1 August 2026. We’re not one, and the tool is built so it never acts like one.

Do my details get uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything stays on your device. The only thing sent is your licence key, to check it. How your data stays private

What if I lose my phone?

If you exported your profile, import that file on the new device. If you didn’t, you’ll have to type it in again. We don’t have a copy. That’s the point.

Can I use it on more than one device?

The plan is a laptop and a tablet. That limit isn’t switched on until Lemon Squeezy is connected. Move your profile across with Export / Import.

Does it work offline?

Once you’ve used it with a connection, it should. See the note on the privacy page.

Are these the latest official forms?

We check every form against the official source at least weekly, and the tool shows the date each blank was last checked.

I’m a paid Captain’s Log subscriber or Tier 2 Patreon supporter. Do I pay?

No. The kits are on us, including the Arrival Kit PDFs. Steve posts the member code in a paid-subscribers-only Captain’s Log post and in a Tier 2 Patreon post, and rotates it from time to time. Type it into the same box where a licence key goes. How that works

What if the official told me something different?

Do what the official says, then tell us what happened. That’s exactly the kind of thing we want to add to the guide.

The short version

We never see your information. The tool runs entirely in your browser. When you click “Create the PDFs”, it takes the blank official forms and fills them in on your device. Nothing you typed gets sent to us, to analytics, or to any government office. You send the finished forms yourself, when and how you choose.

What stays on your device

• Everything you type: boat details, crew names, passport numbers, dates of birth, addresses, emergency contacts, pet microchips and vet dates.
• Any photos you add (boat, passport page, pets). They’re read straight from your device into the PDF. They’re never uploaded.
• The finished PDFs and the zip file. They’re built in your browser and saved to your downloads.

Saving is up to you

• Nothing is saved unless you tap Save on this device. If you don’t save, it’s gone when you close the page.
• If you save, it’s stored in this browser only. Add a passphrase and the saved copy is encrypted (AES-GCM). We never see or store the passphrase, so we can’t recover it for you.
• Want the same boat on your laptop and your iPad? Use Export to make a file (encrypted if you set a passphrase), and Import it on the other device. That file only goes where you put it.
• Delete all my data wipes the saved profile from this browser. To clear everything, including the unlock and the offline copy of the tool, clear this site’s data in your browser settings.

What does go over the internet

We’d rather be exact than vague, so here’s the full list of what leaves the device while you’re using the forms tool:

1. Your licence key (or member code), once, to unlock. The browser sends only the key and an activation ID to our licence checker, a Netlify function. Your form data is never included. The tool is built to refuse to send anything else, and so is the checker. For a purchased key, our checker asks Lemon Squeezy whether it’s valid. Lemon Squeezy already knows who bought it, because it handled the sale. A Captain’s Log or Patreon code is checked on our side and never passed on. Our checker doesn’t save the key, and it doesn’t send back your name or email. Once you’re unlocked, your browser remembers which countries you have, plus the last 4 characters of your key so you can tell which one you used. Your forms aren’t part of that.
2. Loading the pages and the blank forms. Like any website, your browser downloads the pages, the tool and the blank official PDFs from our site, which is hosted on Netlify. Netlify sees those ordinary downloads the way any web host does. Nothing you type goes up with them.
3. The Arrival Kit PDF, if you download it. That happens on the kits page, not inside the forms tool. The page sends only your licence key or member code, and an activation ID if you already have one. The checker sends back the walkthrough PDF, or the zip of all four. Your boat, crew and pet details are not in that request. A member code is checked on our side and is not passed to Lemon Squeezy.

That’s the list. The forms tool doesn’t load Google Analytics or Google Fonts. The rest of sometuesday.com, including these clearance guides, still counts ordinary page views.

What happens when you submit

When you email a form to Customs or paste your answers into a government portal, that information goes to them. You’re the one sending it. We’re not in the middle and we never see it.

Works with bad internet

After you’ve used the tool once with a connection, your browser keeps a copy of it. So at anchor with patchy internet, it should still open and fill your forms. The blank PDFs are kept only after they’ve been downloaded once. To be safe, open it and create your PDFs once while you’re still online.

Don’t take our word for it. If you’re technical, open your browser’s developer tools, go to the Network tab and fill in a form. You’ll see the blank PDFs come down from our site, and nothing you typed going up.

The honest fine print

Some Tuesday, LLC sells information and a do-it-yourself forms tool. We never file, submit, sign or send paperwork for anyone. We’re not a customs agent, yacht agent or lawyer, and nothing here is legal advice.

Everything here is best efforts. We combine research from the official sources, automation that fills in the forms for you, and our own experience. Rules change, officials change, and every boat’s experience in each country will be a little different, including from ours. Before you rely on anything here, check it against the official links and with the officials themselves. You’re responsible for checking, signing and submitting your own forms.