Thanks for the review. One thing with the wifi is the settings on all ships, the OP says iMessages so they have an iphone. There are two auto-join settings everyone will want to enable. Go into settings, Wi-Fi and all the way to the bottom set "Auto-Join Hotspot" to "automatic". From the same Wi-Fi screen, find the ships wifi network, press the blue I and enable "Auto-Join". It won't be perfect but it greatly reduces the times you need to manually re-connect to the ships hotspot.