It is with great relief that I can confirm the Oldmansailing blog is back. It has been an anxious week waiting for it to reappear.<\/p>\n
I left Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands on June 11th<\/sup>. On June 13th<\/sup>, 318 miles in the vague direction of a waypoint somewhere 100 miles east of Bermuda, I received an email (I would have received an email if I had some way of doing so) telling me that my domain name oldmansailing.com was about to auto-renew.<\/p>\n Five days later, there was another saying it had not been possible to take payment because the card on file had expired. There followed several more until, on the 28th<\/sup>: \u201cImportant \u2013 suspension notification.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, I was unaware of all this \u2013 blissfully unaware, as it happened, since the wind had filled in and on the 28th<\/sup>, I see that I recorded a day\u2019s run of 131 miles.<\/p>\n The first inkling that anything was wrong came on July 23rd<\/sup> off the Scillies when a rather tentative mobile signal wandered south from St Marys and informed me that gmail had received no emails for me since June 10th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n That couldn\u2019t be right, surely? That was six weeks. Six weeks without anyone offering to fix my bad posture or set me up with a new wife from south-east Asia?<\/p>\n Complaining to Google seemed about as useful as shouting at the weather so, instead, I called my domain-hosting company \u2013 the one connects to the other. I gave them my new card details. They withdrew what seemed to be rather a lot of money and said they hoped to recover the name (providing nobody else had grabbed it) and then restore all the content (no guarantees there, either).<\/p>\n This was slightly alarming. \u201cThe Content\u201d dates back to 2017 \u2013 how many hundreds of posts is that? Everything from playing kissy-kissy with a racing pigeon off the Casquets Traffic Separation Scheme to \u201cDeath on the Foredeck\u201d halfway up the Deben. Was it possible that all this could just have gone pop<\/em> into the ether, never to be seen again?<\/p>\n I started playing the \u201cWhat\u2019s best about this situation\u201d game. All I could come up with was \u201cWell, if I do have to start again, next time I\u2019ll keep control myself – instead of being held over a barrel by the web designer who refused to release the password and wanted me to carry on paying him forever. As it is, whenever I want to change something fundamental, I have to get someone in India to hack into it.<\/p>\n So now it\u2019s all back up there, and I can relax.<\/p>\n Relaxing is what you do in Falmouth \u2013 it seems to consist entirely of pubs and restaurants.<\/p>\n And yes, the return from the West Indies was very straightforward, thank you: 3,437 miles, 44 days, nothing important broke or fell over the side.<\/p>\n But I did run out of Pringles 100 miles short of The Lizard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is with great relief that I can confirm the Oldmansailing blog is back. It has been an anxious week waiting for it to reappear. I left Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands on June 11th. On June 13th, 318 miles in the vague direction of a waypoint somewhere 100 miles east of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}