2015-04-21

Arnd

2015 Trip 2015-04-21

I did another dive along the shoreline of Anse Colombier in the morning hours, hoping to catch some new fauna in action and returned to the boat with 2000 PSI (out of 3000 PSI) left in the tank because the dive was so shallow. There were some nice sights underwater, but nothing new and exciting. Instead of giving up my mooring position and having to pick up a buoy again, I opted to take the dinghy in to Gustavia in order to clear in/clear out. There’s a small passage between the mainland and an islet that is quite shallow and I believe that I saw some underwater rocks that would have taken my prop off had I hit them – it is certainly a passage to do during high tide and good sunlight! But I made it through unscathed and the trip along the rocky shoreline was comfortable and not as long as I’d feared. I took care of my paperwork at the Capitainerie and dropped a lot of money at the supermarket for some wine and cheeses before returning to Zanshin.

I used the remaining air in the tank and decided to use my paint scraper and BBQ wire brush to do some necessary maintenance on the bottom of the boat. The wire brush was to clean the propeller blades of their encrustations and growths while the paint scraper was for the rest of the bottom to get rid of the rather large amount of small barnacles which had attached themselves to the boat. The small fish and two remoras that had taken up temporary residence under the boat had a feast while I was doing this, although I don’t think that they eat those barnacles shells. It was hard work and the tank was down to less than 500 PSI when I’d finished. But now I hoped to get an extra knot of speed for tomorrow’s passage.

I thawed out one of my T-Bone steaks for dinner on the BBQ, these had been purchased in the BVI and it was time that they got eaten. The package of frozen and individually wrapped steaks had been expensive but looked like a good deal and when I had opened them up I had seen that the cuts were indeed good but that the individual steaks were very, very thin and that meant a very short cooking time on the barbie indeed so that they would be medium-rare. Two baked potatoes rounded out the meal and I had the cockpit LED lights going so that I could read outside in the fresh air.

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.