Well, yesterday we took John and his girlfriend out with us to swing the compass for the auto pilot. Pierre had called furuno and they told us that the auto pilot we had WAS NOT to be used on a steel hull boat, that is why it has never worked right, so we traced all the wires and pulled them out and then we took the compass outside and mounted it on the pilot house which is made of wood. It only took use about 10 times to get away from the dock we were docked at, the middle of this cove is only about 6 ft, so we ran aground a lot, there is a little sailboat next to us and the whole family watched us and finally asked what we were doing, we told them we were trying to get out, so the man asked Pierre what could he do to help, and Pierre said, do you have a shovel! we finally got away. We sailed out and it only took the auto pilot less than 1 circle to find itself. She sailed us back to Gasparilla Marina with no worries! We could not get back to the dock we were at, so we are on another one. But this one is better, we are closer to the friends we have meet here! Last night Keith set up his Karaoke machine on the dock we all sang and had a wonderful time! Robin, a man we meet in Carrabelle came in today on his sailboat so that was sweet. Today while Pierre made was making a box for the compass to mount it on the pilot house.. I fished and I caught a mess of fish and we fried them up and yum yum...we had dinner! Not sure where we are going to go from here, but this coast is very skinny!
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