Arrived Fernando de Noronha, Brazil

Early morning view from our anchorage (update)

 

We anchored in Noronha after a 12 day passage from St Helena across the South Atlantic Ocean at about 4:30pm local time on Sunday. It was a good and fairly easy passage. Now time to get some serious skeep, More latter.

Paul

Enroute Brazil Day 9 and 10

Day 9 noon-to-noon run was 151nm, day 10 was also 151nm. No squalls tonight, like last night. No Noddies pooping on the boat yet either. The sailing has been good the last two days -- large genoa on the pole port side, and the full main on starboard. We have about 275nm to go. At this rate we would make it in a dark on Sunday. We'll see.
Paul
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Enroute Brazil Day 7 and 8

Day noon-to-noon run was 184nm and day 8 was 160nm. Much improved distances made in day. Conditions are still good.
Surprisingly we saw on AIS a cruising boat 13 miles away from us this morning. It was Calypso, a South Africa boat that we met in St Helena. They, with Kraken and one other boat went together to Ascension Island and now are carefully traveling together across the S Atlantic. The faster boats slow down so they all can stay within VHF range.
Paul
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Enroute Brazil Day 5 - 6

Yesterday our noon-to-noon run was 129nm, todays was 140nm. The winds finally decide to fill in last night and we are able to make some decent speed. The excitement level has went way up last night when while on night watch you could hear an occasional soft, guttural sqwuak. WE had a bird or two land on the solar arch. In the moonless night you couldn't see them, but they were probably boobies. This was about midway between South America and Africa, a 1,000 miles from land. Seems odd that they would decide that this noght they wanted to rest.
Then after sunrise we had our first ship since leaving St Helena. A tanker that came by at about 2 miles. After that it has been back to boredom

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Enroute Brazil - Day 1 - 2

Day 1 noon-to-noon run was 140nm and day 2 was 153nm. Not bad considering how light the winds are and how pleasant the sail has been. After noon today the winds got a lot lighter and we are just ghosting along tonight. Haven't seen any other vessels, just some morning dolphins that came by to play and a few flying fish.

Paul
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Enroute Brazil - Day 0

Left St Helana for Fernando de Noronha, Brazil today around 11am local time. We got a late start because we spent the night on the island last night. One of the locals Derek and his wife Linda invited us over for a braai(BBQ) with some of their friends and we ended up staying in their guest house. Really fun and interesting evening.
1700 miles to go. Light winds, sailing downwind with the Genoa poled out to the port side.
15*26S,006*39W

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