View live updates at mvdirona.com/maps We are en route to Prince William Sound, returning at the end of August. Earlier this year, we did a minor refit, including installing a KVH TracPhone V7 satellite phone and internet system, and upgrading our TracVision M5 satellite TV system to a TracVision M7. Now that we have offshore connectivity, we’ll be updating our location regularly at mvdirona.com. .jpg)
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En Route to Prince William Sound
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Thanks Jose. It felt kind of strange to wake up to a quiet and dead still boat this morning :-).
We tucked into Constantine Harbor for the night. Its a great introduction to Prince William Sound — beautiful anchorage. Its nearing high slack now so we’re about to head out to enjoy and explore PWS.
–James Hamilton
Congratulations James and Jennifer!!
Just checked your location and saw you are in PWS… Maybe one day I’ll make it there too.
Jose
M/V Carolina
Victory Tug 41
Anacortes, WA
James
Thanks for the feedback, I know you always do great research before you do things. Maybe one of these days we’ll make the direct run to Alaska too.
Roger
I was going to go with the KVH TracPhone V3 but found that it only has a subset of the V7 rate plans. The difference in cost between a V7 and V3 is big at $15k but the rate plan costs will dominate over time and I wanted flexibility. The V7 is also a bigger dish and will work better in fringe reception conditions like edge of coverage, poor weather, very rough water conditions. I came very close to going with the V3 and depending upon usage patterns a V3 could be considerably better value.
So far I’m impressed with the V7.
–jrh
Hi James
Curious why the trac 7 and not the trac 3 phone and internet? I’m looking into doing the trac 3, I already have the HD7 and had put up a dummy dome of the same size. I’m thinking of going with trac 3 and put it in the dummy dome. But I would like to hear your comments 1st. Have fun on this trip looks like it’s your 2nd none stop trip to Alaska via the Pacific ocean.