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 [...]

In La Manzanilla

20 March 2010 | La Manzanilla
Michael
After we had anchored in the southeast corner of Bahia Tenacatita in front of La Manzanilla and hooked-up to the Internet on a sniped wifi signal, I sent an email to Tolling & Kay announcing our arrival. Then we relaxed in the cockpit, watching the passing scene, which included a horse being ridden in the surf just off our stern.


Then Tolling appeared on our boarding ladder. He had swum out to say hello, after he had tired of hollering to us without response from the beach. We sat and chatted in the cockpit and got caught-up on some of each other's happenings since both we and they had headed south from British Columbia last October. We also organized our spending some time ashore with him and Kay the next day. Then Tolling slipped back into the water and swam back to the beach.


We relaxed for the rest of the day, and in the evening enjoyed a delicious dinner of large prawns quickly tossed in a butter saute of criminis, garlic, white onions, poblanos and red and yellow peppers, served with basmati rice and fine green beans almandine.


On Friday morning I launched Non Sequitur and we let go the painter to head in toward the beach. The motor wouldn't work. For the last couple of years we have been using a Torqeedo 801 with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, and it has served us well. The beauty of it is that we need to carry no gasoline onboard. I had become lax in my care of the outboard, and had been leaving it in the bottom of the dinghy hauled up on its davits. I knew that the salt air corroded the electrical contacts, but had been using a wire brush to clean them the few times previously that the motor refused to turn. However, this time that remedy didn't work.


I had still not found a suitable replacement nor had I devised any jury-rigged solution for our missing oarlock pin, but I decided to head in to the beach using the oars as paddles. We made it through the surf easily enough, though right at the end a late breaker skewed us a bit and washed over the side tube, wetting us somewhat. Once we had hauled the dinghy up to the high water line and secured it to a ring, we stepped through the line of palm trees and walked over to the market to meet Tolling and Kay.


We wandered around the market with them, and Edi bought three DVDs from one booth. Then we went to Martin's Restaurant, a local favourite, with its palapa dining room perched up a flight of stairs and overlooking the bay. Even although Edi and I had had breakfast aboard Sequitur, we decided at 1130 to have another here.


We sat enjoying the company and I got caught-up on things numismatic in general and with the Lasqueti Mint in particular. I had commissioned the Lasqueti Mint to strike my Canadian Numismatic Association Presidential medals in 2008, and had sailed Sequitur to the Island to strike the last few with Tolling. The medals were struck in .999 silver on a century-old drop hammer press, using dies designed and hand cut by Tolling's partner, Ray. The obverse design was a rendering of Sequitur under sail. We also struck a few in .9999 gold, including some pure Mammoth Tusk Klondike gold.

I was so pleased with the result that I commissioned Lasqueti Mint to strike my 2009 Royal Canadian Numismatic Association Presidential medals. Again, Edi and I visited Lasqueti Island in Sequitur and picked-up the medals.


After a prolonged brunch, we walked through the market and then through the town to a mangrove swamp on its northern edge, where we watched the crocodiles. Fortunately, they were behind a chain-link fence, although it was in poor repair with many crocodile-sized holes through it.


In another section of the swamp, Tolling and I walked in to the edge of a lagoon and watched an ibis seemingly tempting fate near the jaws of some rather large crocodiles.


We walked back along the beach to Non Sequitur and bade Tolling and Kay farewell before heading back out to Sequitur. As we were paddling out, we got caught in a particularly large breaker and we both washed overboard. The dinghy remained upright and near at hand, so we climbed back in and continued paddling back out to Sequitur. Back onboard, I realized that I had lost a bit more than my pride; I wasn't seeing that clearly, and finally realized that my glasses had been washed off my face, and had disappeared.

I dug out a spare pair of glasses, overhauled the motor and got it working. Then I stowed the motor in a cockpit locker, away from the salt air, where I should have been keeping it. I still need to find a pin for the oarlock.

Our intention is to leave on Saturday morning and continue southward, likely stopping in Manzanillo for a day or two before doing an overnight onward to Zihuatanejo.
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