Tag: Places
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Voyage tracks available on Google Maps / Earth
To plot our tracks in Google Maps, just klick this link. In Google Earth, open this URL: https://journeyman.se/hd/journeyman.kmz The tracks has some gaps and small errors, and the last week of sailing is not there because I forgot to take it off the nav-station computer. But it’s fun to watch anyway!
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New friends in Piriapolis
So I quickly got myself a small “fan-club” in Punta del Este, a team of young Uruguayan sailors who came with me on a very pleasant and speedy sail from Punta del Este to Piriapolis. Piriapolis is a typical summer town, and it’s winter now here, so I was expecting it to be very empty.…
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Stormy night in Punta del Este
After a very nice 8 day journey we have arrived in Punta del Este. We had great sailing most of the time, maybe a little too much motoring, but overall a very nice passage. I was quite satisfied to be in a marina tonight, as the winds picked up to blow a steady 40 knots…
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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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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…
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New home, new contacts
We spent the first 5 days in Salvador in “Bahia Marina”, which is not a very good place for cruising sailors. It is full of snobbish motor yachts owned by rich Brazilians who have loads of workers constantly cleaning them. As a result the marina is super expensive, noisy and only frequented by very posh…
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Change of environment
This is what popped up over the horizon this morning. After a total of 21 days at sea and 7 days at the godforsaken piece of rock that is Ascension Island it is almost close to mind-blowing to enter the city of Salvador Bahia. 3 million people, noise and music everywhere.