Back to Nanny Cay today.  We left around 10:30 am.  Our next crew member, Andrew, is coming in today.  Well, when we came around the island to heading to Nanny cay, we got the crap beat out of us.  It was blowing 30 knots on the nose and had 6 to 8 foot seas. They were not swells either.  It was all chop.  It felt like we were back on the Chesapeake Bay.  We average 2.2 knots through the water.  It took us 3 hours instead of 1 hour to get there. 

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

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