We left Port McNeill around 8 AM and had a calm and easy crossing of Queen Charlotte Striaght to Blunden Harbour. Unfortunately the AIS was not transmitting. We saw Blue Moon on the AIS and they could not see us. Very frustrating.
We decided to drop the anchor in Blunden Harbour. Try to do a little bit of fiddling with the connections and if we couldn't get it working we would head to Port Hardy and get Stryker Marine Electronics to come look at it.
Blunden has the big long dock for tying up the skiff and taking Jenny to shore.
It rained! Hard! Most of the night! And it was cold. Good this the Webasto is now working well. We used it!
Jim up on the boat deck in his wet gear. He did a little bit of cleaning of the green in the rain.
We have surrendered the boat to the cat. We give up! Haha
Jim is preparing the nightcap as Lilly sits where Lilly wants to sit.
We pulled the anchor and motored off to Port Hardy.
The service tech from Stryker came to the boat and did some diagnostics and resetting of the AIS. So we are hoping he has fixed the problem! Seems all the connections are working. Just a "hard reset" and some reconfiguration -- so fingers crossed!
We are going to spend tonight and tomorrow night in Port Hardy. It is supposed to be a bit windy tomorrow. So we will plan t go around Cape Caution from here on Friday. It will be a longish day -- 44 nm - so 6 a7 hours or so. But if we leave from a dock we can get away earlier without the time needed taking Jenny to shore in the skiff and then putting the skiff back up on the boat deck.
So here we are in Port Hardy at the Fishermen's wharf - in the rain. I think this may be the theme for this summer!!
A rainy evening makes that night-cap all the better. Looks like Lilly approves.
ReplyDeleteNice post! Good to see that you four are having fun. Lilly's got the right idea though... no raingear required! :-)
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