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Post by Zanshin on Feb 6, 2011 14:33:09 GMT
I've been bouncing around the islands on Zanshin since December and have been trying to learn how to use my new camera, a Nikon D7000, in order to take and produce better pictures. I've been posting some of them in daily reports (along with some text) and if anyone in the forum has the Caribbean blues, prompted by cold weather outside and perhaps even some snow in sight, then perhaps you'd take a look at some of the entries at Zanshin January Blog and Zanshin February Blog(no ads or anything commercial on my site, it is just my presence on the web) |
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Post by bsafreed on Feb 7, 2011 1:16:47 GMT
Zanshin, please post the link to your blog. Also, when you dropped your rudder or re-installed it. Any issues that I may need to consider in regards to the rudder bearing, bushings etc. I've not yet prepared Kaian, my SO42.1, for this but will soon.
Thanks, Brian
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Post by Zanshin on Feb 7, 2011 15:42:37 GMT
I did post the links in my initial thread, but the forum software didn't quite do the usual with it, so I've modified the original post and put the hyperlinks in BOLD and italicsHere's a link to the main calendar, from which you can call up the calendar for any month that has a picture associated with it. www.sv-zanshin.com/BlogPages/BlogCalendar.html |
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Post by davideso37 on Feb 8, 2011 10:08:52 GMT
Zanshin,
I like the calendar concept but the page loads very slowly. Does it load quickly from your location?
Regards
David
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Post by Zanshin on Feb 8, 2011 12:31:22 GMT
It should load quickly, I only used small pictures on that page so it should just be a couple of Kb big. Which calendar page are you having trouble with - the main one, or the ones for the different months? Overall the server where I have the site is quite fast (from GoDaddy.Com) so any slowness is either my bad programming or a slow connection or path between server and your system. One check you could try is, from DOS, to type "tracert www.sv-zanshin.com" and see how many hops the packets take and how long each hops takes in milliseconds. There shouldn't be too many hops, 8 or so at most. |
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Post by dublin on Feb 13, 2011 20:08:04 GMT
Hi zanshin,
Just browsing your log - interesting read.
The picture of your knives on Jan 17 looks efficient. Are they on a magnetic block with the front just for safety underway or how does it work. Also where are they mounted.
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Post by davideso37 on Feb 14, 2011 14:58:29 GMT
Zanshin,
Loading faster tonight, Sydney time. Did the trace you suggested and found 18 hops with the last ten all taking more than 253ms each. Love the photos.
Regards
David
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Post by Zanshin on Feb 14, 2011 15:17:53 GMT
David,
I'm glad it is going faster now - I tried to make sure that my pages aren't too big as I usually have slow internet and hate having to wait for pictures to load. I'm in a cafe in St. Barths now and using their WiFi - life is tough, isn't it?
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Post by dublin on Feb 14, 2011 17:14:43 GMT
Zanshin,
If you are still stuck in that cafe in st brats can you provide some info on the knife rack
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Post by Zanshin on Feb 16, 2011 18:51:49 GMT
I'm in a different cafe today, in St. Martin again for a day. Do you mean the knife rack in the St. Barths bar, or on my boat? If the latter, I just purchased a standard magnetic wall mount knife holder, then drilled holes at each end and put in a bolt facing outward and used butterfly nuts to secure a piece of teak over the magnetic plate to pinch the knife firmly in place.
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Post by dublin on Feb 16, 2011 20:46:15 GMT
I assumed it was magnetic. I presume it does not cause a problem for the compass. Good job. Enjoy the stress !!! We all wish it was us. But ave o work for few more years first
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Post by dublin on Mar 2, 2011 20:09:09 GMT
Just looking at your latest log. Ifvyou change to java I think us iPad people won't be able to access
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Post by Zanshin on Mar 3, 2011 1:01:24 GMT
I updated the Java for the menuing system to a newer version a couple of days ago, as I got a mail saying that it didn't work for people using Google Chrome. Did that break something else while fixing another problem? What isn't working?
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Post by dublin on Mar 3, 2011 18:30:32 GMT
Appears to be working fine now on ipad
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Post by Zanshin on Mar 3, 2011 22:11:52 GMT
Thanks for that feedback - it is good to know. Only 2 more blog days left before I return to the "real world", I'm just taking a break from cleaning up on deck. I'm tired - I got the genoa down, carried it to a grass field, flaked it and got it into the sail locker all by my lonesome.
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Post by dublin on Mar 3, 2011 23:00:34 GMT
Tough life
I note you're upgrading to something bigger - what do you have in mind?
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Post by Zanshin on Mar 4, 2011 11:09:17 GMT
I'll most likely stick with Jeanneau and purchase a 57.
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Post by dlymn on Mar 5, 2011 20:42:49 GMT
I really like your blog design. How can I get a hold of the template?
David
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Post by Zanshin on Mar 6, 2011 17:34:48 GMT
David - I manually made the calendar table format, the blog pages are pretty simple in terms of layout as well. Any tricky formatting that I have on my site was "borrowed" from pages I'd seen on the web and if you want to use my formatting you could do the same.
I use freeware Spry menuing for the drop down menus, and freeware highslide for making the thumbnail pictures expand nicely; apart from that it is all html and if you right-mouse-click on any page and do a "view source" it is all visible. I can also send you a sample source page with the links to the include files if that helps you.
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Post by dlymn on Mar 7, 2011 11:24:44 GMT
Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a go although I might be somewhat restricted by the free blogging sites I was planning to use.
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Post by Zanshin on Mar 8, 2011 16:07:04 GMT
I'm now back in Germany after more than 3 months of sailing. Although I snapped over 7000 pictures (many of them in high-speed mode), only a couple turned out very nice and at the moment my favorite is  which was more of a coincidence as I didn't see the pelican until I was looking at the pictures on the notebook the next day. |
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Post by MalcolmP on Mar 8, 2011 20:17:15 GMT
I'm now back in Germany after more than 3 months of sailing. Although I snapped over 7000 pictures (many of them in high-speed mode), only a couple turned out very nice and at the moment my favorite is which was more of a coincidence as I didn't see the pelican until I was looking at the pictures on the notebook the next day. Brilliant picture and neat bit of embedding. might you send an original to me to upload onto the gallery? cheers Malcolm |
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Post by Zanshin on Mar 9, 2011 12:25:15 GMT
Malcolm - the original is in camera RAW format and is 16Mb big; but I'll gladly send you a JPG of any dimensions you'd like!
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Post by j57 on Mar 12, 2011 14:56:55 GMT
Hello Zanshin,
I recently contracted to purchase a J57 with a 30 day due diligence / termination window. You seem to be well-steeped in all things Jeanneau. Can you give me any advice including any negatives re the 57?
Many thx!
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Post by Zanshin on Mar 12, 2011 17:25:21 GMT
j57 - I just looked at one in detail over 2 days at Southampton and haven't sailed or owned owned one so I'm not really able to help you. I like the design and the workmanship (of the boat show boat) was excellent and I will most likely be purchasing one sometime. What is the 30-day due diligence period with regards to a boat purchase - is it your "oops, perhaps I don't want this" period on a new boat order?
There was a new member here a couple of months ago who had a J57 on order, perhaps he/she is still around and can comment on the new boat.
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