2009-11-30

Arnd

December 2009 Vacation Trip 2010-11-30

Monday, November 30, 2009

After yesterday’s sail brought a couple of small problems to the fore today has been spent in minor repairs and preparations for departure. I e-mails with Audrey at Electec and they will have the replacement elbow for the generator in a couple of days, so I am ready to head out and northwards. After I got the dinghy out of storage and inflated, manhandled the engine onto the dinghy and got it installed and running I got some new dock neighbors who seemed more interested in hitting my boat and the one on their far side than parking their boat. In the end they got “parked” without too much problems and are now next to me, with 3 power cords and a TV connector hooked up (not bad for a 36 foot Hunter, considering I have only one power cord pulling 8A with the AC running. The Link10 has been blinking like crazy, so I finally got the 4 new batteries out (they are heavy) and replaced the fuse at the device, so now it is telling me exactly how many amp-hours I have left in the bank. The pictures at the left are the upper 4 batteries, the picture at the right is the lower level of 5 batteries (4 house batteries and 1 starting battery)
Update – those new neighbors managed to scratch up my hull after all and didn’t mention a word!

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.