2020-02-02

Arnd

Today passed in a bit of a daze. I had a school of dolphins frolic around the boat for several minutes, but there was no way I could make it below to get the camera; by the time I’d done that at my geriatric pace they would have been long gone. So I just watched them jump to port and starboard and soon they were gone and I was alone again. I did see a faint bump on the horizon which was a freighter, and also had a couple of AIS signals, none of which came close enough to be visible to the eye.

In other circumstances today would have been awesome sailing. The seas were flat, I was close hauled with an apparent wind of 15 knots and doing over 7-8 knots with the boat hardly heeled over.

Only one more day to go before landfall.

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.