2013-02-01

Arnd

2013 Trip 2013-02-01

Several months back the internet forums that I frequent dealing with sailing had several posts regarding a new catamaran that had run up on the reef at Sandy Spit of Jost van Dyke. Initially there was a series of pictures showing the grounded cat and then a photo essay showing the salvage operation; unfortunately these pictures soon disappeared from the internet (perhaps due to insurance and liability questions) and recently an advertisement for sale of this boat appeared here on yachtworld.com. Looking at the pictures below, one can see how carefully the wording of that advertisement has been selected and once again reconfirms my conviction that salesperson’s statements are to be taken with more than just a grain of salt.

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.