20 miles out to sea birds
20 miles out to sea birds
Picture of Arnd

Arnd

2014 Trip 2014-01-19

Today was spent sailing from the BVI to St. Martin.
I had set the alarm for 03:00 but woke up around 00:30 and decided I might as well get underway since the conditions in the weather forecast never really matched those in reality. The conditions seemed nice, with a waning almost full moon and few scattered clouds the wind in the North Sound was light so I motored out of the channel and past Neckar and Prickly Pear islands to find that the seas were as predicted, 1.5 meters or so in a long swell which only had me slamming a couple of waves every 10 or so minutes. But the wind, despite being only 10 knots, was right on the nose of the boat so I didn’t bother putting up a sail (it would just flap around all night) and motored to St. Martin doing about 6.5 knots according to the GPS on average. It was a 13 hour trip, my fastest ever and also the longest continuous time that I’d run the engine without any sails up!
I chilled a bit on board after arriving and then proceeded to go ashore for a bit of food. It was still early so I headed into Calmos Café and had two of their Tapas (Goat cheese mousse with toasted baguette bread, Beef skewers) and remember why I like going to France so much! The band started up for some Reggae entertainment but I was still tired from the passage (despite having napped a large part of it) so I headed back to the boat.

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.