Atlantic Islands
A rather uneventful passage
We left the Abrolhos islands early on Friday morning for the 170nm passage to the city of Vitória on the mainland. With the conditions [...]
Wildlife at the Abrolhos Archipelago
The Abrolhos Archipelago (in Brazil) is not to be confused with the Abrolhos Islands (also called Houtman Abrolhos Islands, in Australia). In both cases, [...]
A two-day crossing to the Abrolhos
We departed Itacaré for our passage to the Abrolhos Archipelago in the afternoon. We had spent the morning provisioning at the local market, and [...]
Crossing to mainland Brazil
Leaving FdN behind The crossing from Fernando de Noronha (FdN) to Salvador, on Brazil’s east coast, took almost exactly five days. We departed on [...]
The archipelago of Fernando de Noronha
A bit of history The official story, based of Amerigo Verspucci's account at least, is that the first tourists to visit Fernando de Noronha [...]
Land ahoy!
From Pollywogs to Shellbacks Having cleared the doldrums and once again hoisted our sails, we began preparing for another significant event on Yuma, namely [...]
Becalmed in the doldrums
In the afternoon and evening of day 7 of our Atlantic crossing, the wind slowly dropped from a comfortable 12kn to 10kn, then to [...]
All alone on the Atlantic Ocean?
Anybody out there? Once away from land, the ocean is a remarkably empty and vast space. We had left Cabo Verde pretty much by [...]
Starting our first ocean crossing
Our last night in Cabo Verde On Sunday 11 January, having completed our departure formalities with the marina and the authorities, we were ready [...]
New Year in Mindelo
The town of Mindelo Mindelo is is a bit ramshackle and run down but it has enough colour and life in it to give [...]