Gearing Up

Now that we've had SweetHaven home for a few days the enormity of the amount of work that needs to be done on her and the frustrating lack of time we have. Marks work and the kids homeschool, we've barely had time to clean her out.
Marks next 'off' rotation in his shifts starts tomorrow so I am spending the day on the Anacortes ferry delivering the infinks up to Sydney BC where they will stay with my parents for the rest of the week so hopefully Mark and I can get a good jag on the boat work.

Today was spent doing ordinary things, making fossils out of cornstarch clay, cutting out Turbo colouring pages, gererally keeping up with school and packing up for the kids trip tomorrow. Suffice to say the kids are very excited for another solo trip to Nanny and Poppys house.

When we were at the boat yesterday with the kids we managed to rummage through some cubbies we hadn't discovered before and we keep finding little gifts. Like a brand new full immersion suit, a new Lowrance GPS and chart plotter, an anti exposure suit, AIS and wiring and controls all hooked up for an auto pilot. So assuming where there's smoke, there's fire, where there are auto pilot wires there must be an auto pilot.

Some emails and inquiries and we found out the autopilot had been sent back to Raymarine for repairs and was waiting to be shipped back to the boats owner. And hey, what do you know? That's us.

I'm not sure how this contraption is able to steer our boat, if it will work. It's been in for repairs so I'm not sure how reliable it'll be, but it's worth a try and hopefully thanks to all our finds we can check off these things from our "to buy list".