2009-12-02

Arnd

December 2009 Vacation Trip 2010-12-02

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

I finally made away from the dock and cut the virtual umbilical cord. My first small passage was from Jolly harbour to the anchorage at Nevis, a trip that took from 11a.m. to 17:30 in mild winds and some uncomfortable swells from almost directly aft. I used only the mainsail and tied that down with a preventer to keep the boom from snapping back and forth with the swell. An hour into the trip I realized that my speed was slow enough so that I would get to the anchorage after dark. Although this anchorage is open and the mooring balls easy to see, I wanted to avoid all those fishing trap peppered around the island so opted to motor sail and set the Gori propeller to “cruising mode” and with 1800 RPM I was averaging around 7.5 Knots and that was just right for a sunset arrival.

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.