Brazil
Carnaval de Salvador
Blocos On the opening night of carnival, we decided to join sailors from a couple of other boats and move up a scale from [...]
Pre-Carnaval in Salvador
One of the main reasons we stopped in Salvador was to celebrate carnival (or carnaval in the Portuguese Brazilian spelling), which officially started on [...]
Tuna for dinner, darl?
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 [...]