54 48.826 S, 068 18.360 W Ushuaia, Argentina
This morning we got up early had showers and we were ready to leave at 8 am. Unfortunately, two large rigged inflatable boats were rafted behind us so we had to wait until the owners arrived and they moved so we could get out of the taggle of boats and lines. By 10 am we were leaving Puerto Williams. As our luck continues with wind on the nose we motored our way to Ushuaia about 28 nautical miles west of Puerto Williams and across the Beagle Channel. Rich and I had visited here last March when we went on the cruise to Antarctica. It was our first time on Windarra.
After some confusion communication with the Argentinian armada, we docked and then got a taxi ride to the Officina Antarctica, aka the Coast Guard office, and checked in. All forms in quadruple but they supplied some carbon paper to help. First time I have used carbon paper in a long time. The officer was very nice, he stamped our passports and then sent us on to Customs or Aduana, which was across the street. We gave them two of the four copies, the officer kept two and after a bit we had a temporary import permit for Windarra, good for 8 months.
To celebrate after a stop at the atm, we went to the restaurant/bakery we had found on our last visit. We had great bread, excellent salad and we shared a lamb dish that was wonderful. We also bought some croissants for brekkie and a betard. Argentina bread is so much better than Chilean.
We walked back to Windarra and relaxing. Tomorrow we need to buy some new fender as ours are pretty sad and there is supposed to be some strong winds on Sunday and Monday. We also plan to do some provisioning as well.
We are watching for a weather window to start heading east towards Estrecho de Le Maire. This strait is fairly notorious so we want to make sure we not only time it correctly but had the right weather pattern. Then we head north.
Cheers
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