2015-03-29

Arnd

2015 Trip 2015-03-29

After a lazy morning with a bacon and eggs with bread breakfast I decided to make it another quiet day. I dinghied out to the start line of the Powerade Dinghy Regatta to get some pictures and when I returned I started the long-postponed task of adjusting the steering/power bar of the outboard and cleaning the engine along with adjusting the carburetor idle. There’s a problem with the tiller arm and I downloaded the full shop manual from the internet, reading a section about the “trim tab” with great interest. I needed a lot of upper body force to keep the engine from making the dinghy turn a sharp right turn, I thought that was normal but it turns out that the sacrificial Zinc doubles as a trim tab which can be used to adjust the side forces on the tiller!

I opted to stay aboard tonight, cooking some potatoes with sauces for dinner and making an improvised and temporary dinghy lift as the sun set over the lagoon.

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.