Day 17 -The latest and not the greatest
The new autopilot fix worked great, kind of….
My fix with the Delrin worked really well. The linear drive is directly coupled to the drive pull and there is very little slop in the system, unfortunately you need an electric motor to run the system and that is what failed last night.
Everything was great and the the DC motor crapped out. Since it was almost evening we decided we would just hand steer the rest of the night and take a better look in the morning.
The weather is still overcast but we did have a couple of spots of blue sky today. The fog seems to have lifted and we are seeing some more steady wind.
The forecast is calling for 10-20 kts for our whole trip into Sitka which will be great and we are looking to make landfall on June 27.
Our noon to noon run was 141 and we are starting to get tunnel vision as we near the end of the trip
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