2014-01-15

Arnd

2014 Trip 2014-01-15

Since I’d gone to sleep far too early the night before, I woke up at 7am, just before a couple of work boats went by with a big wake that slapped and shook the hull. I connected to the internet to see what CNN and BBC had to say about the world events (I was pleased to read that piracy around Somalia has gone down 40% recently!) and edited and uploaded my pictures from the day before. It is now 12:30 and I didn’t realize where all the time had gone until I started remembering all the little tasks that add up:

Clean up pasta mess from the night before

Make coffee with frothed milk (repeated as necessary)

Identify and tie down slapping halyard

Re-load music to iPod (still in progress, takes about 2 hours)

Open up instrument panel and install the Clipper NAVTEX antenna upright and fasten it

Clean up behind panel and think about re-bedding the stanchions as there is a bit of salt water ingress

Attach the microphone of the SSB permanently in place

Attach the handheld Icom VHF holder and charger permanently to the instrument panel

Do the dishes from breakfast

Surf my standard web forums

Do the daily e-mail

There are more tasks upcoming, but first I’ll go outside and get some sunshine and perhaps see if I can afford a loaf of bread at the Bitter End Yacht Club store.

Run generator, make water, heat water, use power to boil eggs

Use water from boiling and cooling eggs in a pail with Mr. Clean for quick wash of main cabin walls and floor

Fix starboard curtain

Surf the web

Try to edit the big pictures of the cabin into a panorama

Soak up some sunshine on deck

By the time all that was done, it was shortly before 5 and I took a quick shower, changed into long pants and dinghied back to Saba Rock for some happy hour libations and their tasty beef tacos at the bar. The daily tarpon feeding was a bit late, but I managed to get a couple of pictures of that event as well. When it was time to order dinner I saw that they’d kept the fish tacos on the menu but replaced the classic beef tacos with some vegetarian ones, so I opted to make dinner on the boat after all.
Tonight was a full moon, which also explained why Saba Rock was relatively empty since most of the crowds would be at Trellis Bay or the Bomba Shack for their big parties. I tried to get some pictures but clouds moved in and later it also rained a bit, making photography impossible. I ended up watching The Fifth Element, an older Sci-fi movie with Bruce Willis and Milla Jo….vich (I can’t recall her exact name) but before it was finished my eyes were closing on me and I went off to sleep.

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.