Yacht Delivery Blog

Chomping At The bit Getting the PC52 Out of Fiji Yesterday, we officially left Fiji again —for the third time! Honestly, I was even more optimistic this time than I was the last two, and believe me, I was pretty optimistic then. The previous attempts hit what we started calling the "autopilot horizon," which was just 8 nautical miles to sea —the exact point where the system decided to check out. The first time we reached the limit, I was thinking, “Wow, the wind and waves are changing direction rapidly!” until I glanced at the compass and realized we were wildly off course. After scrambling down into the engine room, tinkering, doing a hard reset, and getting zero response, we made the call to turn back for repairs. We were incredibly fortunate to have two experts immediately available on hand. They quickly identified problem, and we ordered spares from Australia—which, of course, got immediately hung up in customs! The parts were fitted, other issues were discovered and r...