2011-01-09

Arnd

Winter 2010-2011 Vacation Trip 2011-01-09

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Another wonderful day in paradise. I watched another movie from the disk for breakfast, this one based on a computer game and called Hitman and then headed over to anchor off Leverick Bay so that I could engage Michael to help me get the outboard and dinghy aboard, as my back hurt somewhat. Together it took us about an hour to complete the task and then I went over to Michael’s boat with my multimeter to see if we could get his diesel started. Even though all the batteries were charged up quite high the starter only barely managed to turn over the engine and it wouldn’t start. Michael said that he’d had electric issues and someone had run a + cable straight from the battery to the starter so I measured resistance and connectivity but every seemed to be in order. We were about to remove the cable from the starter when I touched the negative pole and noticed that the screw-on butterfly bolt was loose, so we took that off, sandpapered the terminal and 2 cable and tightened it down and -presto- the engine fired right up immediately!
I’m back on the boat right now and will finish making her ready for a rough passage and then will most likely try to flag down a dinghy and head ashore, hoping to get a ride back later on tonight.

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.