More on Nazan Bay

Well we made it ashore twice in two days.  There is a store here and most important real (well almost real) internet.  We are sitting on the deck outside the school updating this blog as we speak.  The wind is shifting more north so we hope to be off tomorrow.  We have about four to five days of favorable conditions before the next low and hopefully that will get us to Dutch Harbor.  It is a long two days to get to Umnak where we hope to stop for one night.  Then we will decide how to head the remaining bits to Dutch Harbor.  There are some stops along the way.

We have just received an email from the harbor guys in Dutch informing us that Singapore boats can not get the usual cruising permit.  We have to pay more and pay a fee at each individual port.  This could be very tedious not to mention expensive.  So we will look at our options once we get there.  We also had issues with West Marine holding our inverter order so it looks like we will be in Dutch Harbor for a couple of weeks.  The good news is with the stop here we were able to sort things out with West Marine and our credit card so the order should still be working while we take the five days or so to get there.  The bad news is it takes three weeks for the order!

It is looking more and more like Seward for the winter.  Of course this is seven miles north of our insurance line of 60 degrees north so probably another charge.  Anybody want to employ a couple of Yachties for the winter?!