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Big swell in the marina
Back in Salvador After about a week cruising around in Baía de Todos-os-Santos, we returned to Porto Salvador Marina in Salvador to do some laundry and provisioning, before heading [...]
Exploring Baía de Todos-os-Santos
Looking for some peace and quiet Carnaval had been an intense time and our two weeks in Salvador had been busy. So, by way of recovery, we decided to [...]
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 our pre-carnival celebrations in Pelourinho [...]
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 the 12th of February 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 a warm sunny day with [...]
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 (FdN) were a Portuguese expedition [...]
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 the crossing of the equator. [...]
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 8, and then suddenly to [...]