2010-12-09

Arnd

Winter 2010-2011 Vacation Trip 2010-12-09

Thursday, December 09, 2010

At around 1am the wind started to howl outside and I went up to take a look. It had not only gone to above 30 knots but had changed direction a bit and now I had a boat just downwind of me and no room to let out more scope on the anchor chain. The boat was bucking around from side to side and I was worried that it would jerk out the anchor; so for the first time I held an anchor watch, staying awake and partially in the protection of the dodger as the storm passed by. After about 3 hours it abated and I had some fitful sleep while the boat tossed to and fro.
I departed Anegada since the anchorage was uncomfortable and opted to go straight to Jost van Dyke for the night. It was an uneventful passage with the wind at 120° so I just set the sails, turned on the autopilot and relaxed during the journey.
I anchored in time to do some work on splicing the forward starboard top lifeline while watching the anchoring antics – while Great Harbour did fill up the show wasn’t a particularly interesting one as everyone seemed to know what they were doing and no mishaps occurred.

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.