Finally on the move

Thursday July 12th 2012

Finally !! The long awaited parcel was delivered yesterday by Fedex GROUND. Hard to believe that Raymarine think so little of their customers that they did that, sent a 5 # parcel by GROUND over 4 time zones to the ONLY USA state capital that is inaccessible by road. They obviously know that your boat is down and inoperable while you are waiting but , just as obviously they don’t care!
Today started out with a  nice sunny morning, maybe the weather will change for the better now we have decided to leave Alaska.

Here are some pictures of  Auke Bay harbor activity.

Fisherman checking his texts or facebook status

How the 1% live

Typical Alaska scenery

This guy was selling direct to the consumer

Cutting out the middleman

Auke bay sunset

We topped up the fuel and water tanks (Water maker also not working any more) and went out to the bay to swing the compass and set up the autopilot. When they installed the new PC board at the factory we lost all the vessel specific parameters so had to go through a seatrial menu to reset everything. This requires turning circles and running a zig zag course while the autopilot “brain” learns and records the specific vessel’s characteristics.
This took us less than an hour after which we set course for Tracy Arm. It was a beautiful calm day, no wind whatsoever , so it was a pleasant day’s run. We left Auke Bay around 10:30 and reached Tracy Arm anchorage at 4 PM.

Ice floe in Tracy Arm entrance

Tracy Arm anchorage makes this boat look pretty small