Wednesday June 27th 2012
Just leaving Hoonah (in the pouring rain) when the autopilot stopped working, I phoned the Raymarine service centre in Vancouver where I bought it last year and gave them the error codes etc but they were less than helpful. I then tried to call the Raymarine support line in USA but as usual nobody answered the call. They did have a recording come on after a while and recommend that if no one come on the line after 20 minutes that you should leave a voice message.
Just leaving Hoonah (in the pouring rain) when the autopilot stopped working, I phoned the Raymarine service centre in Vancouver where I bought it last year and gave them the error codes etc but they were less than helpful. I then tried to call the Raymarine support line in USA but as usual nobody answered the call. They did have a recording come on after a while and recommend that if no one come on the line after 20 minutes that you should leave a voice message.
At least it didn’t say “Your call is important to us” and really piss me off!!
It is a two day trip to Sitka where we had planned to go but only 5 hours back to Juneau where we can maybe find an electronics technician but , if not, we can get internet and Fedex service so that’s where we decided to go.
We found out last week that the commercial fishing opening is from noon Sunday till noon Wednesday so just after the noon closing (or earlier if they have a good catch) the harbour quickly fills up with all the fishing boats, sometimes rafted 2 or 3 deep . As we arrived in Auke Bay today there was a line of them all racing for the harbour and we just managed to sneak into one of the last empty spots on the breakwater .
It was a nice trip over from Hoonah even though we had to hand steer all the way. The water was mostly calm and we saw a few whales along the way. Needless to say it started to rain as we arrived at the dock just in time to get Vivian wet again!!
Click on the link below for our actual position on Google earth
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