Sequitur

Michael & Edi have headed out on a slow, thorough exploration of the globe.

Vessel Name: Sequitur and Zonder Zorg
Vessel Make/Model: 2007 Hunter 49 and 1908 Wildschut Skûtsje
Hailing Port: Vancouver, Canada
Crew: Michael Walsh & Edi Gelin
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13 January 2014
26 April 2013
24 April 2013
27 October 2012 | Harlingen, Friesland
29 September 2012 | Sneek, Netherlands
19 September 2012 | Hoorn, Netherlands
13 September 2012 | Aalsmeer, Netherlands
20 August 2012 | Sequitur: St Augustine, USA - Michael & Edi: Vancouver, Canada - Nieuwe Zorg: Aalsmeer, Netherlands
11 August 2012 | Sequitur: St Augustine, USA - Michael & Edi: Vancouver, Canada - Nieuwe Zorg: Aalsmeer, Netherlands
10 August 2012 | Sequitur: St Augustine, USA - Michael & Edi: Vancouver, Canada - Nieuwe Zorg: Aalsmeer, Netherlands
08 August 2012 | Nieuwe Zorg: Aalmmeer, Michael & Edi: Vancouver
28 July 2012 | Nieuwe Zorg in Aalsmeer - Michael & Edi in Vancouver
26 July 2012 | Nieuwe Zorg in Aalsmeer - Michael & Edi in Volendam
17 July 2012 | Michael & Edi in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
07 July 2012 | Edi & Michael in Vancouver, Sequitur in Saint Augustine
27 June 2012 | Saint Augustine, USA
07 June 2012 | Saint Augustine, Florida, USA
20 May 2012 | Fajardo, Puerto Rico
11 May 2012 | Terre Le Haut, Les Saintes, Guadeloupe
01 May 2012 | Carlisle Bay, Barbados
Recent Blog Posts
13 January 2014

Another New Book Released

I am delighted to announce that my new book: Carefree on the European Canals is now in print and is available on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca [...]

26 April 2013

New Book Released

The proof copy of my new book arrived by courier today. I have approved it and it is now listed on Amazon for pre-order, with a publication date of 30 April. It is a rather large book at 680 pages in an 8.5 by 11 inch format with 315,000 words illustrated by over 2400 colour photos, charts and maps. [...]

24 April 2013

One Year Out of Brazil

One year ago today we sailed Sequitur out of Brazil after enduring more than six weeks in the least-friendly country that we had experienced during our three-year voyage. In the early evening of 24 April 2012 we crossed the line on the chart dividing Brazil from French Guyana and breathed a huge sigh [...]

27 October 2012 | Harlingen, Friesland

Planing a Metamorphosis

We have added a new post to the Zonder Zorg blog at: Planing a Metamorphosis.

29 September 2012 | Sneek, Netherlands

Onward to Friesland

We have arrived in Friesland and have added a new post to the skûtsje's blog at: Onward to Friesland

19 September 2012 | Hoorn, Netherlands

North From Aalsmeer

We have moved northward from Aalsmeer and I have added two new posts: Heading North From Aalsmeer and North From Amsterdam

13 September 2012 | Aalsmeer, Netherlands

Taking Possession

We are back in the Netherlands, and I have added some new posts to the ZonderZorg blog at: Taking Possession and Settling-In and Making Plans

20 August 2012 | Sequitur: St Augustine, USA - Michael & Edi: Vancouver, Canada - Nieuwe Zorg: Aalsmeer, Netherlands

Added a New Website

We have added a new website: Skûtsje ZonderZorg. Zonder zorg in Dutch means without worry. Our intention with the site is to provide a place to share some of the history, geography and culture of the skûtsje as we discover it. We will also use this place to document [...]

11 August 2012 | Sequitur: St Augustine, USA - Michael & Edi: Vancouver, Canada - Nieuwe Zorg: Aalsmeer, Netherlands

Still More Skûtsje History

We continued to attempt to track-down Douwe Albert Visser, who was the owner of Nieuwe Zorg in 1941 when she was re-registered. One of the problems we repeatedly encountered in our online searches was the effect of currently having Albert Visser and two Douwe Vissers as very competitive skûtsje racers, [...]

10 August 2012 | Sequitur: St Augustine, USA - Michael & Edi: Vancouver, Canada - Nieuwe Zorg: Aalsmeer, Netherlands

Some More Skûtsje History

While I was researching the history of Nieuwe Zorg, I finally found her first registration details obscured by an apparent typographical error in a transcribed online spreadsheet. She was listed as having been built in 1901 instead of 1908. I emailed the webmaster of the [...]

Wandering Around in La Paz

18 December 2009 | La Paz
Michael
This morning at 0930 we weighed anchor and motored the cable or so over to the outside float of Marina de La Paz and secured alongside. Yesterday we had decided that at less than $40 per night, it made sense to lay alongside for a couple of days to make it easier to stock-up for the next three weeks or so, during which time we will be away from anything larger than a tiny fishing community.

We hadn't been alongside, other than to refuel, since the two days we spent in Ensenada nearly four weeks ago, and it would be good to top-up the batteries with shore power, good to top-up the water tanks with a dockside hose, good to take long showers without the guilt of water usage, good to run the washer and the dryer without thoughts of power consumption, good to go ashore without the dinghy. Being alongside makes many things more convenient. Shortly after we had arrived alongside, I took our two empty propane tanks up to the front of the marina office and had them refilled for just over $12. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a local fellow carts them away and a couple of hours brings them back full.

This afternoon Edi and walked the mile or so over to the CCC supermarket and hauled back two large cartons full of groceries on our little luggage cart. Among our better purchases were 4.5 kilos of fresh basa fillets at less than $5.50 a kilo; we had thoroughly enjoyed the ones we had bought a couple of days ago. We had also enjoyed the superb tomatoes, so we bought another couple of kilos for just under a dollar. The basa fillets are now zip-locked in pairs in the freezers, and the fridges are crammed to their gunnels with fresh produce.

Yesterday and the previous day we had walked from the marina into the old town along the malecon, and along the way we paused to admire the bronze sculptures which grace its length. The most intriguing is one of an old man in a paper boat gazing longingly out to sea. With it is a plaque with the artist's poem:



... which translates to:

I have a boat of paper...
It is made from a page
where I wrote my dreams.
It has no anchors nor ropes.
I want to sail in it,
through the seven seas; in the eighth,
where I know, it will run aground in the port I long for
... has anyone seen the light shining from its lighthouse?



Another of the wonderful sculptures along the malecon is this one of a mermaid swimming with a dolphin:



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