2012-01-09

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-01-09

We started off the day by clearing out at the Capitainerie in the Port Royal marina and then returned the rental car, did some provisioning and the headed into the lagoon on the dinghy. We did a short stop at Bernd and Carmen’s “Mau” so that I could pick up some bottom paint for Rob on Arita (well, now on Southern Comfort) which they, in turn, had picked up at Budget Marine for me. Instead of poisonous bottom paint we got some wonderful crème brûlée left over from the night before and a tour of their boat. We left, sated, but had forgotten the bottom paint. We subsequently met up at Lagoonies and then proceeded, along with Mark from Sea Life, to the St. Martin Yacht Club terrace overlooking the entrance to the lagoon for the traditional 17:30 bridge opening and welcoming the incoming yachts. After that we had dinner at Barnacle’s and picked up the very heavy bottom paint on our way back to the boat. A very long way indeed with this soft-bottomed dinghy but luckily I was at the back of the dinghy doing the driving and didn’t get too wet.

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.