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 Ten

04 May 2010 | 322.5 miles north-northwest of the Galapagos
Michael
We continued to dodge storm cells until they had passed, and at 1315 we again un-socked the spinnaker and rolled-in the other sails, and set Hydra to steer us on a course of 150. We moved along very pleasantly through the afternoon making 3.7 knots in the 6 to 8 knot westerly breeze. In the late afternoon, the first ship we have seen in a few days, Cepheus Leader, a near Panamax freighter bound for Japan passed at 14.5 miles down our port side. She was out of sight over the horizon, but thanks to our AIS transponder, we could watch her pass electronically, as she could watch us.

Our 1600 fix showed that we had made good an average of 3.48 knots since noon on a course of 145. During dinner, as we were passing yet another storm cell, its wind reached further out than I had expected, and caught our spinnaker. While Edi steered, I let fly the sheet and went forward to haul-down the snuffing sock, but there was too much flailing and force in the by now 25 to 30 knot wind. I went back to the cockpit and lowered the halyard, laying the spinnaker in the water off our port bow.

Forty minutes later as we lay a-hull under bare poles in 30 knot winds and rain, I had socked the spinnaker in the water, un-fouled the port sheet (which had decided to do a wrap around the keel), hauled the sail aboard, un-rigged it and stowed it in the sail locker. Then, making sure all lines were clear of the water, I flashed-up and we motored to clear ourselves from the storm cells. We continued with dinner, which was still nicely on the plates, thanks to Edi having taken them below and putting them on the stovetop and unlocking the gimbal. After dinner we shut-down the engine and ghosted along under sail in the 4 to 5 knot breeze, which by midnight had died.

We slopped and drifted through the night, until at 0537 with absolutely no wind, I decided to flash-up and motor. Sunrise at 0702 showed us glassy-calm seas, without a ripple to disturb the slow the long swell's progress. The sky was 9/10 covered with cirrus showing through the few gaps in the lower stratus, strato-cumulus and stratus fractus, and there were towers of cumulo-nimbus over the horizons.


Most of the time we had at least one booby riding on the bow, either on the Rocna anchor roll bar or on its shank or the shank of the Delta. An aggressive rider would fight-off all additional riders often for well over an hour before one managed to land. Then they would both fight-off other contenders for the roosts until a third made it on, and join in the defence, and so on. At one point we saw five boobies perched on the bow.

It is not an easy thing to land on a small target like this, with the boat slowly yawing from side to side and bobbing up and down, while moving forward and all of this motion changing the relative speed, direction and turbulence. We were fascinated watching the persistence of these boobies making many dozens of attempts to time a perfect landing, only to be fended off by boobies already there.

We made another 3 hours and 20 minutes of water filling the tanks to overflowing after liberal showers and filling a dozen 1.5-litre water bottles for the fridge doors. The batteries were all up to 100%, and we continued to motor at 2000 rpm and making good 6.3 knots through the glassy seas.

Our noon position 789.5 miles from Acapulco on a bearing of 151, with 322.5 miles on a course of 154 to our Isla Pinta, our landfall in the Galapagos. We had run 81.6 miles since the previous noon.
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