2010-05-04

Arnd

Summer 2010 Vacation Trip 2010-05-04

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

The wind blew through Trellis all night and we had sustained winds of 20 knots. Going shopping ashore was easy, but getting back with a laden dinghy against the chop in the bay and against the wind was a very wet affair. We got going at noon and I decided that the North Sound offered protection if the winds were to pick up further and we prepared for a long uphill slog. The leech of the genoa is still torn, so I only had a small portion of the genoa to work with but it was sufficient to power us comfortably along at 4-6 knots and occasional periods of 7 knots. We had to tack several times but had only a slight angle of heel due to the lack of sail. We had a charter boat follow us and it almost caught up, but it tacked too early to make it through the channel entrance and thus we made it in before them with a comfortable margin. As the saying goes, two sailboats only race when they are in sight of each other.
Dinner at the Saba Rock bar was good but I think it is time to replenish the supplies of Carib beer aboard, as we managed to go through rather a lot.

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.