Seven twenty AM departure. Good weather. Waters were two to three feet high crossing Mahone Bay, but once we followed the Nova Scotia coast we were in one to two feet waves. We autotuned the autopilot early on and it did work, however, we still have a discrepancy between the bearing and the heading causing the reversible pump to often adjust. It is best when we are on a Go To course than on a basic hold, which doesn't make sense since setting a boat on hold from its current direction should be the easiest setting to manage for an autopilot. We tried adjusting the Gain and Countergain but it didn't improve the response from the autopilot heading discrepancy. So we are working with what we have and are continued in our trouble shooting mode. Should we bleed the whole hydraulic fluids? Should we replace the reversible pump from the Simrad to a Garmin. People are complaining on various blogs about Garmin autopilots. Can see why.

We arrived at Lockeport after almost 12 hours of travel...a long day. Lockport marina is no more, the restaurant removed its floating docks. They were very helpful though, and directed us to the public wharf. The public wharf is not in great shape or easy to tye up to like most public wharf they are set for larger fishing vessels. Harvey did a superb progressive move to the wood piles and helped me tying using first the metal ladder and then he was able to tye the lines that I passed him. The tide was almost to its lowest making it easier to estimate the length of the lines. We spoke on the phone with Philip and managed to have dinner at the restaurant before it closed. Nice fare and it was so nice not to have to cook after a tiring day. The Lockeport harbor is very well protected and it was nice to sleep in calm waters.

Miles: 83

Total nm: 1,763