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 [...]

Galapagos Passage Day Three

27 April 2010 | 201.1 miles off the south coast of Mexico
Michael
The breeze continued to veer and by 1230 it had crossed the stern, so we jibed from the 160 we had been steering to 140. By 1400 the breeze had become fickle at 2 to 4 knots and by 1530 we were becalmed. After flopping about in glassy calm for half an hour, we finally flashed-up the engine, snuffed the spinnaker and motored at 1600 rpm for an hour, until we found the beginnings of a south west breeze. There we shut-down and un-socked the spinnaker and sailed at 2 to 3 knots on a course of 150 steered by Hydra.

Sunset found us still ghosting along at 3.5 knots in a 6 to 7 knot breeze, which was finally beginning to strengthen. We slowly gained speed under the light of a near-full moon as the breeze built into a 10 to 12 knot wind. Shortly before midnight we crossed the latitude of the sun as it snuck past on the other side of the earth on its way to bring summer to the northern hemisphere. The sun will now remain north of us as we continue southward, and I will have to adjust my internal compass settings to noon - sun - south north.

We sailed at 7 to 8 knots on a beam reach in 12 to 14 knot southwest wind with Hydra easily keeping us on our course and on our rhumb line. Then at 0147 the spinnaker's tack shackle parted. I let fly the sheet and went forward to haul down the sock to snuff it, but found adverse winds making it awkward. I went back to the cockpit and flashed-up the engine and after I did my usual check for lines in the water, put the engine in forward at idle to turn to a more favourable relative wind for working-in the spinnaker.

Back on the foredeck with the more friendly flailing of the spinnaker, I dowsed it and while I was clearing away the sheets and lashing the socked spinnaker to the mast, a bight of the starboard sheet dipped into the water, and before I could do anything, the propeller found it and wound the engine to a stop. The engine was still in gear, and I could not shift it to neutral to try and unwind the mess.

I pulled-out the main and hove-to while I finished squaring-away the spinnaker. Then with the jib rolled out, I wore around to a course of 150 and at 0250 we continued along at 4 to 5 knots in an easing 8 to 10 knot southwest breeze. We decided to continue on, waiting for the next daylight calm so that Edi can snorkel down to the screw and attempt to unsnarl the mess.
Sunrise on Tuesday the 27th found us in southwest 7 to 8 knot breezes making 4.5 knots down our rhumb line. There appeared no calm in sight, and the seas were a bit too choppy for Edi to dive on the tangle, so we continued on. On Monday I had strung-out six watermaker filters on a line to dry in the sun, after they had soaked since Zihuatenajo in a covered bucket of fresh water. I now dry-brushed a pair and put them in the machine to begin making water. We made 236 litres in 3.5 hours, during which time I ran the generator and Edi started the first of three loads of laundry.

The breeze continued to veer and slowly pushed us southward. Our noon position put us 201.1 off the south coast of Mexico, having made 84.8 miles noon to noon and a total of 296.7 miles thus far on this passage.
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