Day 15 – Back in the saddle again

Well after the epoxy set and I tested out the motor, cleaned up the fitting and gears and reassembled the autopilot it was time to put it back to the test.

Everything seemed to go well and we were motoring in some very calm seas which was a nice Intro for the autopilot which is working well.

The seas are very calm so we decided we’d have to motor if we wanted to make any kind of mileage.

I figure we have about 36 hours of motoring left after motoring through the high which would leave us with a nice safety margin to run the generator and motor into Sitka.

Since it was so calm we ended up motoring the full 24 hours and had a noon to noon run of 101 miles. This is our shortest noon to noon run of the entire trip.

We should have about 12 hours of motoring left in the tanks but the forecasts look decent for the next couple of days so hopefully we will have a nice sail in.