Michael Beans' yacht, "Mangele" underway in the Bight on Norman Island.
Michael Beans' yacht, "Mangele" underway in the Bight on Norman Island.
Picture of Arnd

Arnd

2016 Trip 2016-02-13

After my first somewhat restless night aboard, I woke up relatively late and didn’t get underway until 11AM, bolstered by several cups of coffee. I left with a downwind/crosswinds destination of Jost van Dyke in mind, but the conditions looked nice for some sailing with winds of about 10 knots and hardly a noticeable wave pattern in the Sir Francis Drake channel, so I changed my mind and decided to sail to the North Sound of Virgin Gorda instead. At first I had full sails out and was cruising along at 8 knots, but then the winds stiffened somewhat and I put reefs in both sails and still comfortably sailed up the channel at about 7-8 knots. This was a great start to the 2016 sailing season and it was exhilarating indeed. I saw numerous boats, both monohulls and catamarans, motoring rather than sailing and couldn’t understand it; particularly as I was doing better speeds than they were while “just” under sail.

I anchored in my favorite spot close to Prickly Pear island in the early afternoon and once I was firmly attached to the ground I started cooking some slow-cooked chili sauce with some of the provisions I’d purchased. The main ingredient that will deliver some “punch” are some of the Scotch peppers I purchased at Riteway in Roadtown. Since I’m not sure how spicy they are I’ll let myself be surprised once the sauce has been bubbling away for an hour or two and will taste my concoction.

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.