2011-12-08

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2011-12-08

The day of departure has finally come! We left the dock in the early hours of this morning and motored the long way up the coast until we made the turn to the southeast and put up our sails and turned off the engine. Despite passing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (well, going over the tunnel portion of it) quite early, it wasn’t until the afternoon that we passed the last marker buoy at sea and were outside of coastal waters and well upon our way to distant St. Martin.
The wind was just forward of our beam and we made good speed – zipping along to our crossing of the Gulf Stream and entering warmer waters so that we could peel off all those layers of clothing.

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.