Frequently Asked Questions

Year 1 - to November 2012

Frequently asked questions:

“What are your plans?”  We are sailing the boat from the Rock Hall, Maryland where we purchased it down to Daytona Beach, Florida to get it down to warmer waters in time for our January 1^st start.  We’ll fly home for Christmas and then head back to Florida Jan. 1 with the hopes of heading out on January 2^nd (Jens’ birthday BTW).  We’ll have Eric and Liz with us and will head down to British Virgin Islands.  On February 4^th, we pick up Antje in Tortolla, BVI and also meet up with some Danish friends (Peter and Bettina) who are down for a holiday aboard a catamaran.  We will also meet up with Stefan and Anna who will be aboard their newly purchased SY AYAMA coming up from Venezuela.

Antje leaves us on February 15^th to head back to the wintery and cold Huntsville.  We’ll then continue westward heading to Panama to cross to the Pacific. In Panama we will meet up with some dear friends and colleagues (Fredrik - we can't wait to see you!)   Somewhere around the middle of March, we’ll lose our other two traveling companions who plan to make it up to Costa Rica and then home again at the end of March.

After crossing the Panama Canal, we’ll head down to Galapagos (we have room for 2 on board if anyone is interested).  Our next destination is across the Pacific to the French Polynesians with a stop in Tahiti in July.  There we pick up Anna and Christian who will stay with us for 6 months as we make our way down to New Zealand.  This just be somewhere around November 2012.  Anna and Christian then head off for Thailand and we head back to Canada.  We’ll plan 2013 when we get a little further along on our journey.

“Have you ever sailed before?”  Jens has been sailing since he was a small boy and in fact it has been a dream of his to sail around the world.  I am a new sailor, but I have a good and patient teacher.  So far, so good.     

“Do you get seasick?”  Well, I know that Jens does not.  He has been on sail boats (racing and pleasure sailing) and large ships enough to know for sure.  I haven’t really been in rough enough seas to test it out.  Again, so far, so good.

“Why does the boat fly a Danish flag?”  SEGWUN is registered in Denmark even though she was built in Florida and spent her past 17 years in Rock Hall, Maryland.  After we purchased her, we had her registered as a Danish yacht.