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Hi C-Brats We are in Camsell Portage, very nice place :thup Just 8 people living here, but they have pretty fast W-Lan-Internet, AMAZING :shock: We hade very big waves the last days. A lot of very big " TREE SISTERS " :o Today is the first day without big waves :D :D The Lake is just...

Hi C-Brats Well, there is no way to get ORCA out of the water in Fort Chip, so no way to instal the tranducer, bummer... :o We have to go arround the Lake Athabasca without the 997... :cry: As soon as we refill our tanks we will go on... There are some fires arround Fort Chip it is very...

Hi C-Brats Yes, we are going to Stony Rapids. Finally the Lake is open :D We had a lot of Wind and Thunder Showers the last days. we just received the Hummingbird side Scan. In a few weeks I can tell you exactly how good it is.... We hope that we can start in 3 days, we have to get ORCA out...

Hi C-Brats The reason for the high bill on the engine repair is the high wages in Fort MC Murray.130-160$ an hour !!!! The other reason is that we did not expect to see old peases of an old impeller floating around the cooling system. A dealer checked the engine and did not find anything...

Hi C-Brats We are in Fort Chip. The repair of our engine had cost us over 2400 US... :amgry The problem was old pieces of an impeller... The one we had in is fine, but the pieces destroid our pump we had to change that... :amgry I wish the seller of the boat told us that he had problems...

hi c brats Well,our water pump quit working. We are back in Mc Murray! :amgry Just the towing back to town was 450 $..... :cry Man, that engine is just trouble.... :amgry To fix that will cost a lot of money.... But hey, better here than 100 miles north... We hope to be back on the...

We are ready with our filming here and ready to leave Fort Mc Murray tomorrow :thup If it wont rain tomorrow we will set ORCA in the Athabaska at Fort Mc Kay. I will spend there about 3-4 days to wait until Dan is back from Hay River where he will drive up to park our Truck and Trailer til...

Hi I use one of those Shakespeare AM/FM-VHF splitters . My AM reception is fine. Maybe there is corrosion at your splitter?? Regards from Fort Mc Murray Chris

Hi C-Brats We are still in Fort Mc Murray. :( We find a very nice campground near the Airport. :thup The ice is gone, just some chunks on the rivers edge :thup :thup We will launch ORCA in the Athabasca River on the weekend. Dan will than drive the truck and the trailer to Hay River on...

Hi Brats We are still in Fort Mc Murray and will be at least for the next week, because Dan has to bring the Truck and the trailer to Hay River on the Great Slave Lake ... There is still a lot of ice floating down the Athabasca River... We talked to some very knowledgable Locals and they...

Hi Brats Thanks Jay... Yes it will be a very difficult expedition... This is mutch more difficult than the yukon river, here we will deal with hard rock not with gravel or sand... :shock: We will probably launch in Fort Mc Kay not in Fort Mc Murray, the locals warn us that the 50 miles to...

Hi Brats Greetings from Edmonton. ORCA is in front of the Sands Hotel... I am sleeping in the Boat, anybody has a cold beer???? :wink: We are here till tomorrow, we have to buy a prop and some maps. Very slow WIFI connection here. For the Problems: As to the Orca not showing up in the...

Thanks Jay :thup We will start on monday. We hope that we prepared ORCA right for the journey... Regards Chris

Hi Brats As soon as we start you can track ORCAs route on ionearth our new sponsor. :D The link is: http://www.ionearth.com/TeamTracking/Lo ... fault.aspx Regards Chris

Yup, that would be very nice, there are many things on a c-dory one could easily do in the factory, but man, I can tell you those little things on the boat are a pain in the but... :cry: But hey, no boat is perfect, but sure it would be nice if boat manufactures would listen a bit more to...

Hi Well, my system has a build in GPS witch will show my position in the sat picture, very simple :thup Everything is automated so all you have to do is look on the screen... :D Over NMEA you can do that to most of the weather sat software on the market, even the free one... :thup Most of...

HI thataway When you have internet on board (sat Phone) it is easy ,but if not... :roll: There are many VHF receiver in the 137 MHz for sale... Well go on: http://www.wraase.de/ Look under specials and you can get a very, very good receiver (MR-137)for 249 Euro with prof software... :thup...

Hi C-Brats In my opinion it is better to get a NOAA VHF receiver and hook it up to a laptop and you got all the infos you need... :wink: One can get a Noaa receiver used with software and antenna for 100 US... :shock: I use: http://www.xaxero.com/skyeye.htm The good thing is, all the...

Hi Jay Thanks for the info :thup That is good news :D :D :D We will start a few days later because of the snow here in Kalkaska. We plan to be in F. Mc Murray around the 20th... I didn't hat time to modificate the Mokai jet, but will do that soon :wink: I will send you the infos with...

Hi Jay Glad to hear that you like the Mokai :D Good information about towing the Mokai behind the c-dory :thup Any clue on how far behind ? :? Oh man, all the fish have to hide now :lol: :lol: Regards from snowy Kalkaska Chris