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Things that went wrong and mistakes to learn from
It is now too late in the season to continue the journey south. So I am forced to rest a while, waiting until next spring to continue, sometime in September. One thing that I thought would be fun to do now that I have plenty of time is to write an entry listing some of…
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Bahia do Ilha Grande – A beautiful gem, but well used
Journeyman is now moored in Paraty. I plan to stay here or in the nearby area over the winter. Before writing a couple of longer entries in this blog concerning lessons learned over the last half years sailing, and about future plans, I will just share some cruising experiences from the last weeks. The area…
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Rio de Janeiro
Sailing towards Rio de Janeiro has been uneventful. The winds are very light, forcing us to motor quite a bit. There hasn’t been a lot of boat or sailing events to write about. So I’ll just contend myself with posting some images from the last days. A surfer in Arraial do Cabo taking a break,…
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Cabo Frio. Aptly named!
Last night we sailed down towards Cabo Frio. It was quite interesting. I woke up for my night shift at 02:00 in the morning and was freezing cold. Check out the measurements of temperature from our Oceansearch sensors (temperature axis left, salinity right): These measurements were made in the spots on this map: It turns…
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Smooth sailing on the Brazilian coast
We’ve had really light winds lately. This is sometimes challenging, especially when coming from behind. The swell makes the sails flog when the wind is so light that there is little pressure on them. And this flogging under no load causes a lot of wear and tear on the sails. To avoid it you have…
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Finally sailing again!
After a long pause for big repair works, we are finally back at sea. The new crew has made the decision to not sail so aggressively to start with, so now we are heading south along the Brazilian coast for Rio de Janeiro. Tonight we stopped outside Morro de Sao Paulo, a popular tourist hangout…
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While we are on the subject of things I designed too weak…
Now that the ballast tanks are strong, there are a few other things… :-) One thing that I clearly did not make strong enough was the anchor arm. It was bent a few times already before we left Sweden. And in the swell in the anchorage outside Ascension it got really destroyed in a big…
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Tanks done and tested. Time to put things together again.
I remember when the tanks were pressure tested in the yard. As the pressure increased there were plates going “Boooink” as they adapted to the pressure. I should have taken that as a sign that something was wrong, but at the time I was thinking that the tanks would never be exposed to that kind…
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Tank work coming along. Slowly but surely.
All sorts of factors are adding themselves on top of the Bahia tempo. The local Military Police are on strike. This totally screws up traffic in the city. Takes hours for my welder to get here in the morning. The army is trying to secure things but they are not very good at it. There…
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Bahia tempo. Get used to it.
Actually I am having a problem with this. Being Swedish and used to efficiency. Here everything takes 100 years by my standards. Over a week ago we got an OK from the Bahia Marina management that we could do the work at a spot on their service dock. I tried to actually go there starting…