2015-05-24

Arnd

2015 Trip 2015-05-24

The weather seemed to be promising, with 15 knots of breeze forecast and waves from the east for the downwind run to the USVI from St. Martin, so I decided to clear out of France and head off into the sunset today. I motored around the corner to Anse Marcel and completed the informalities of leaving France and had originally planned on remaining there until late that night when I would depart, but the anchorage was unruly at best and the boat would be still until a couple of waves would make it around the corner and then roll and swing. So I opted to return to my original anchorage at Grand Case and this time I stayed far offshore so that I wouldn’t have anyone in my way when I left in the wee hours of the next day’s morning.

I put the dinghy engine in the garage and otherwise prepared the boat for the passage and went to sleep early, setting the alarm for 01:00.

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.