Ferry went well, no issues. Thanks for that video MLHeliWrench it was very helpful. We stayed over in Port Angeles, Sitka and Anchorage. The one issue we had was we tried to call Canadian FSS in Victoria and Bella Bella but with our American T-mobile not working tried South African number with roaming. The FSS number gave us an automated message about not being able to receive calls from this region. Same thing when we tried the Sat phone. After borrowing a phone from a kind Canadian we got hold of a very helpful FSS controller who gave us a direct number to get hold of him that worked from the sat phone and had no more issues.
We did bring a shotgun, just had to declare it to CAN PASS before leaving. They wanted us to have a Non Resident Firearms declaration form filled out, a trigger lock, assurance that it would not leave the helicopter and a letter from the gun owner since he wasn't flying with us. We declared it to the customs agent when landing in Sitka and he had no issues. I'll post some photos after this. Thanks again for all the help and advice, it's much appreciated.