2013-02-21

Arnd

2013 Trip 2013-02-21

Although I wasn’t able to check the internet, the feel of the waves and wind seemed right and I decided that it was time to head off to St. Martin. I opted to sail up to the North Sound of Virgin Gorda and then clear out on the next day for a night passage to the French side of St. Martin. The sail was a blast with good winds and a good angle making those constant tacks upwind unnecessary. Once anchored off Prickly Pear I did check the weather and my guess had been right – despite a 6 foot swell the winds were right and weren’t going to get any better in the next couple of days. I took the dinghy ashore and turned it upside down for some cleaning and later also cleaned some of the growth from the waterline of Zanshin. I went to Saba Rock for happy hour and witnessed the tarpon feeding for the first time, then returned to the boat for a BBQ dinner and watched my first movie on the notebook on this trip (“Skyfall”).

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.