41 48.896 S, 073 04.862 W
Yesterday we went to the Chilean Armada office and filed our zarpe to Puerto Williams, via Puerto Eden. We estimated our arrival in Puerto Eden mid January and Puerto Williams mid February. It may be sooner but it is better to overestimate. I will send our position information to the Armada plus Search and Rescue daily.
This morning Franck and Maia of SV Petit Prince came by to say goodbye. They have given us lots of information about the canals in the south and we look forward to seeing the places they described.
At 9:45 am we eased out of the slip at Club Nautico Reloncavi. Don and Lauren, his new crewperson, of SV Limbo helped cast off our docklines. It feels good to be one our way and heading southward.
I have not written much of this past month or so. It has been busy doing boat projects like installing new wind instrument and cable (Rich up the mast 3 times), new Iridium GO, repaired heater (very important), reinstalled repaired center fuel tank (high on the list), finding parts and installing 2 fuel prefilters so we may switch from one to another, etc, etc. We also spent time provisioning at Jumbo, Bigger, Santa Isobel and Lider, the supermarkets in Puerto Montt as well as Angelmo, the Saturday morning fresh market for vegetables, fruit, salmon and crab. With our new additional jerry jugs we have 750 liters of fuel total. On deck we have 4 floating lines of 100 plus meters long each in baskets so that when we anchor in tight spots we can tie to trees on shore.
It wasn't all work and no play. We did enjoy lunch at the club with other cruisers including Tom and Dorothy of SV Joyant, Richard and Susan of SV Abrazo, as well as BBQs with Roel and Jacomine of SY Tara of the Netherlands, Franck and Maia and their two children of SV Petit Prince of France. Richard and Susan also took us to Cotele, a restaurant run by an ex-pat cruiser from South Africa (look it up on Trip Advisor). It was a great meal of very thick, very tender filet with sides of salad and potatoes with a special cheesecake like dessert. Yummy. For Thanksgiving we joined Ned, Carol and Rachel on SV Frannie B plus Don and Lauren of SV Limbo, with turkey and all of the trimmings including pumpkin pie and berry pie. The leftovers were great too.
Finally we reached escape velocity and we are on the move. Estero Chope is a long inlet with muscle and salmon farms but a quiet, peaceful anchorage. It is time to chill out.
Cheers,
Elaine and Rich
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