It is Thursday April 28, 2011.  It was a rough morning!  But, we got our day going.  Andrew worked on communications.  Paul and Dan worked on getting the boat ready for sea.  I worked on provisioning and made a pot of chili  to freeze for 2 dinner evenings.  I also worked on getting the cabin ready for sea.  We also figured out our deck prism were leaking after all the deck was done.  Miles pulled the prism and re bedded them.  That evening there was a social hour and dinner with the rally.  We got to see some new and old faces.  The next day was more work.  The guys pulled forward with Moonshadow.

It's Tuesday April 26, 2011.  We had a big day ahead of us.  WE had Davis Murray, "Barefoot Davis" is coming aboard to adjust our compass.  We realized on the way down to the islands our compass was out of fluid.  So we took it home and sent it away to get serviced.  So, Davis came out to the boat by dinghy with his Polaris.  He got all set up and looked at Paul and said, "lets go."   Paul looked at him and said, "where."  I said, "start the engine baby!"  Our compass had no adjustment screws.  We had to go out and swing the compass.  So, for a half an hour we motored north, south, west, east, north east, north west, south east, and south west.  Our compass was all good with a 2 degree deviation.  Davis wrote down all the numbers on a piece of paper for t