Is this where I was meant to be?

PROGRESS
Andrew and Hilary Clark
Fri 10 Jul 2009 21:22
54:40N 05:40W
 
As we were entering harbour, a friendly looking local swam past.
 
 
"Och, aye, Jimmy" I hailed, keen to show my grasp of the local vernacular, "is the distillery near here?"
 
"Well, to be sure" he responded, "if I was going there, I would not be starting from here". And so saying, he was gone.
 
I was puzzling his remark, searching for the hidden significance, when I saw it. Someone had put the porridge pot in the locker in front of the compass. For the last two days we had been heading in the wrong direction!
 
Time to turn off the computer and do some serious re-planning.