History of the boat

The boat was build by the Westsail corporation in Costa Mesa. Hull number 275.

It was in the water in 1975 as a Canadian registered boat named Nadine-II. It was a present of a grandmother to her grandchild after he successfully finished his university. This happy grandkid took the boat out on the Pacific for an unknown number of years.

At a certain time the boat was sold to a couple living in Juneau, Alaska. The boat was renamed 'Tillikum'. They upgraded the boat and sailed it via the Panama-canal to Cartagena de Indias. They sailed it for some years in the area of Colombia, Panama and Costa-Rica.

In 1997 I came in contact with the owners and asked them to sail the boat to Amsterdam, the Netherlands or any port in the USA. So they did.
The boat ended up in Rockport, Texas where I bought the boat in the beginning of January 1998. I registered the boat under the name "Watergeus" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After arranging my leave from the Netherlands for half a year, I came to live on the boat in July 1998.
I renovated the boat during the hurricane-season of 1998. After that I took of to Veracruz, Mexico. Via Isla Mujeres I ended up in the Rio Dulce, Guatemala. The 1999 hurricane-season was spent in this safe hurricane-hole.

In 2000 we took of to the islands of Honduras, Providencia and Cartagena de Indias. We went to Panama and back again to Cartagena. From there our trip went to Jamaica and Haiti where we spent the hurricane-season of 2001.
In 2002 we were back in the Rio Dulce, Guatemala.
In 2003 we headed to Florida and Alabama to do a major renovation of the boat in Demopolis during the hurricane-season of that year.

In 2004 we finally left the USA, once more to the Rio Dulce in Guatemala. In 2005 we redid our first round of the Caribbean and included Cuba in the trip. We returned to the Rio Dulce in July 2006 where we live on the boat at this moment (Jan 2007).