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 [...]

Southward from Mazatlan

21 February 2010 | Mazatlan
Michael
The online forecasts at passageweather.com looked good again on Saturday morning when I checked. The winds were predicted to be northwest in the 10 to 15 knot area on Sunday afternoon and increasing slowly over the following couple of days to 15 to 25 knots. The seas were forecast to start out at under a metre from the west and then build to west 2 to 3 metres mid-week. The grib files confirmed this, and we continued with our plans to head out on Sunday.


We anticipate departing around noon on the high tide. Technically it's a high tide, but it is actually little more than a slightly higher lobe of a seven-hour low tide of around 0.3 metres. Nonetheless, there should be sufficient water if we keep to mid-channel, and that should be easy, since there won't be any current running.

On Saturday afternoon we took the bus in to the beginning of the malecon, and then walked up to the Mega to top-up Sequitur's freezers, fridges and pantry in preparation for heading out. We found some fresh portobellos, and got half a dozen medium-sized ones, and we picked-out half a kilo of nice firm white mushrooms and a kilo-and-a-half of asparagus. A huge head of broccoli and another of cauliflower went into the cart, followed by some tomatillos, red peppers, a bunch of celery, six heads of garlic and some big carrots. These will nicely augment the produce we got at the market on Thursday.

While I was doing the vegetables, Edi was picking-out the fruit. She added a huge papaya, some limes, tangerines, mangos, apples, kiwis and avocadoes to our growing booty. At home, brown eggs are more expensive than are white eggs, so we buy white eggs there. Here, on the other hand, it is the white that are the more expensive, so we picked-up a dozen browns for the equivalent of $2 Canadian. The label on their sturdy clear plastic container showed they were two days old, and that they still have four weeks before they do whatever it is that eggs do after a month.

In the bakery, we bought a couple of loaves of white bread and had it sliced, and we added a dozen bagels and some tortillas to the cart. Four bricks of cream cheese, half a kilo of butter, two kilos of yogurt and a kilo of Chihuahua cheese were added on our way through the dairy department. At the fish counter we chose six nice-looking supreme fillets, two for the evening's dinner and four for the freezer.

On our way to the checkout we picked-up a 32-roll bale of toilet paper, and then walked up the coffee aisle for a kilo of inexpensive Mexican grind. We have not been disappointed by any of the Mexican brands we have so far tried, in fact we now prefer it to the more expensive brands in the US and Canada. This time we chose one called Cafe Garat for 109 pesos the kilo.


For Saturday's dinner I sauteed the fresh supreme fillets with tomatillo slices in butter and julienned garlic, and served them with steamed basmati rice and asparagus with mayonnaise. The warmed tomatillo slices gave a wonderful light citrus counterpoise to the fish, and the combination harmonized deliciously with the unoaked Chilean chardonnay.

On Sunday morning with our bagels and cream cheese, we tasted the new coffee, and declared it very good and well worth buying again. After breakfast we did all the things that use water, before I topped-up the tanks. Even with taking daily long, hot showers, we have close to two week's supply aboard, so we'll be giving the watermaker a break again, and leaving it on auto-flush.

Our intention is to sail to Isla Isabela, about 90 miles south-southeast from Mazatlan. The island is a National Wildlife Preserve, situated about 15 miles off the Nayarit coast and some 70 miles north of Banderas Bay and Puerto Vallarta. Its volcanic origins and its unique birdlife have at times caused it to be called the Galapagos of Mexico. Among the attractions are the nesting grounds of the frigate birds and the blue-footed boobies. Our plans are to spend a few days there and then continue on to Puerto Vallarta.
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