2011-01-27

Arnd

Winter 2010-2011 Vacation Trip 2011-01-27

Thursday, January 27, 2011

This is to be my last day in St. Maarten for a while so there was a lot to do in between lazy sessions on deck just doing nothing. After the morning VHF session Mark from Our Life at Sea came by to say hello, then I went to Lagoonies for an extended breakfast but wasn’t able to connect to the internet. I talked with an Australian couple on the boat Alexes, a Taswell 56, and offered to help make a Dyneema line in exchange for getting David’s assistance with raising my outboard and dinghy aboard the boat in the late afternoon. The deal was consummated and I made up the line as specified; David and Jenny came by early and helped me with the storage work and subsequently went ashore for happy hour drinks. They returned and I had some dinner and then waited for someone to depart the dock in a dinghy in order to bring me back to Zanshin I. After a while I found a ride and returned home, finishing a bit of preparation work in the cockpit and then watched part of a movie before retiring for the night.

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.