Zen Quest

Crew Profile

CAPTAIN: Bart de ZWART

Bart has been in the water all his life growing up with parents who had a sailings school and sail charter business. He has been sailing all his life and captained many boat for deliveries, charters and privately. Bart de Zwart, also called Mr Endurance is known for his Stand up paddle crossings and expeditions all over the world. Bart studied tourism in Holland and then left top explore the world. Sailing every year for about 3-6 months in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Atlantic and Caribbean. Then started semiprofessional windsurfing, and sailing, then owning windsurf centers in Greece, Venezuela and later Maui. In 2005-2008. he sailed around the world with wife and daughter.
He became a professional Stand up paddler since 2010. He always had a passion for the long-distance racing on a SUP he won the 11-city tour (the tour de France of stand up) 4 times In 2018 he won the SUP category of the Yukon 1000, world’s longest paddle race. 1000 miles through the wilderness of Canada and Alaska.
Bart is a waterman, with big wave license, captain license, big wave surfer, windsurfer, wing foiler and stand up paddler racer.

CHEF: Dagmar de ZWART
Dagmar was a graphic designer in Germany until 1992, then spend the second half of her career in watersports.
She learned how to sail in 1990. From 1993 onwards she owned and managed windsurf centers with her husband in Greece, Venezuela and Hawaii. From 2005-2008, she sailed around the world with her husband and daughter.
In 2009 she started with her husband a windsurf learning and rental center in Maui.
Cooking has always been a passion of her, and in 2019, Dagmar started advanced cooking classes.
In 2020 Dagmar and her husband started working full time on a 57 ft Catamaran as chef/captain couple.

Sample Menu

SY ZEN QUEST
Sample Menu by Dagmar DE ZWART

Breakfast Buffet

Coffee and Tea, Milk, Alternative Milk option, homemade yogurt, Oatmeal, seasonal fruits
Egg dishes (scrambled, sunny side up, frittatta, omelet…),
Sweet dishes (clafoutis, French toasts, Austrian Kaiserschmarrn, vanilla bread pudding, pancakes, crêpes citron, banana bead, muffins…), marmelade, honey, algarve sirop, maple sirop, nut butters
Breakfast meats and variety of cheeses.

Sample Lunch Menu

Potato pumpkin soup, served with cream, roasted seeds, homemade bread, assorted cheeses
Buddha Bowl, assorted greens, glazed salmon furikake filet
Chicken/veggie Shawarma wraps, with greens
Tagliarini with homemade pesto
Homemade Italian flatbreads, mixed greens
Linguini with sweet potato cashew mousse
Angus Beef burger / Beet burger on a brioche bun with spicy chili dressing on mixed greens
Leek potato watercress soup

Sample Appetizer Menu

Tuna carpaccio on salad bed with capers and vinaigrette
Salad from mixed green, cucumbers, avocado, sliced oranges with an orange vinaigrette
Chilled watermelon with a feta/mint assembly, balsamic reduction
Eel sauce ahi poke on mango salad
Bombay curry soup
Mixed greens, beet and goat cheese with apricot reduction
Parmesan pattie with rainbow salad
Caprese salad with a balsamic vinaigrette

Sample Entrees Menu

Pan seared crusted sesame ahi, resting on a bed of white rice with wakame seaweed salad,
green bean assembly with a variety of caramelized mushrooms and a side of wasabi mayo

Chicken skewers drizzled with a creamy satey sauce, a side of grilled pineapple, mango chutney, caramelized bananas and a cucumber balsamic salad

New Zealand Steak, side of carrot spears and potato towers,herb garlic butter and a green pepper velouté

Tahitian Poison cru, in lime juice marinated raw red tuna with coconut milk,bell pepper, tomato, cucumber on  rice

Asian inspired tuna with furikake egg roll

Glazed honey soy wild salmon on a coconut brown rice bed, grilled peaches with roasted parmesan zucchini slices

Chicken medallions on a red lentil mousse, avocado strips, eggplant crispy slices with a drizzle of apricot sauce

Jumbo shrimp broccoli spicy curry on a rice dome

Sample Dessert Menu

Passion fruit Mousse next to ½ opened passionfruit
Lava brownie with raspberry coulis
Key lime pie on a caramelized cookie crust with key lime shavings
Apple raisin pockets with a dulce de leche drizzle
Tiramisu
Raspberry mousse with dark chocolate shavings on a chocolate sauce
Lychee Mousse
Green Lime Passion fruit ice cream dome

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Summer Operations
French Polynesia

Winter Operations
French Polynesia