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Well we left this morning. We were about an hour later than we planned on, but we realized (a little too late last night) that we had forgotten to get a fishing license. The one boat we might run into in Prince William Sound would likely be Fish and Game. Since we are planning to supplement our larder with fish we needed to wait for the local store to open so we could get one.
Anyway the departure was uneventful. We decided to head all the way to Day Harbor and leave Resurrection Bay behind. This is a beautiful spot with a very scenic backdrop. Hopefully we will add a photo later.
We did have a small scare on the way over as our main Garmin interface unit quit working. This is our chart plotter and radar display so we were a bit worried. Mark had just double checked it only a few days ago. So he ripped out the ceiling panel to expose all the wires and went after the power lead which took a bit of work to get traced back to its connector. We think it was the ground wire because after he pulled it out and squeezed the tape the thing popped to life. We could not get it to fail again so after we anchored we put everything back together except now this splice is in the open and we can dissect it if we have a problem again.
We only made 37 miles today but now the boat is more sea worthy. Amazingly when things start falling and crashing around, it forced us to either find a home or lash down the errant item.
We will probably stay here a day or two to continue to get things ready and to wait out a small low that will bring some rain and contrary wind. When we first got here we had a bunch of salmon jumping around the boat. But shortly after a family of about six sea lions showed up and started swimming around the boat. So the salmon are gone right now but maybe we will have a shot again tomorrow.
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