2009-11-24

Arnd

December 2009 Vacation Trip 2009-11-24

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

I went to the boat today to see what work I could do underneath the waterline prior to the boat getting splashed back into the water. I greased up the Gori folding prop and cleaned the remaining few dried barnacles from the hull, and discovered that someone had actually removed a metal grate covering the galley salt water intake including the 5 screws holding it in! I doubt that the part is particularly expensive, but those 5 holes can cause water ingress and damage if not plugged up. I think that this is a despicable theft and, if it weren’t so warm and windless, I’d walk around the yard looking for a boat with a grate similar to what mine used to be and if they were lazy they might have even left my colored bottom paint on.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.