Forteleza to Cayenne…..Day 3 July 11th, 2013 (Northern & Western Hemisphere) Time: -3 on GMT The Amazon Between our hulls? We\’ve been motoring for the last 27 hours. NO WIND. The prediction says that in about 5-7 hours it is supposed to come up to 8-14 off our stern. If so, we may be able […]
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Forteleza to Cayenne….Day 2 July 10th, 2013 (CROSSED THE EQUATOR LAST NIGHT) Time: -3 on GMT This is the first time \”Beach House\” has been in the Northern Hemisphere since June of 2009 when Cindy and I went from Cocos Island, Costa Rica to the Galapagos. Yesterday with did it with smoke and mirrors! The
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Forteleza Goodbye…\”Hot\” Cayenne on the menu!….. July 8-9th, 2013, (Western Hemisphere) Time: -3 on GMT The Marina Park Hotel where our Marina was, hosted a \”SAMBA BRAZIL\” event last Saturday night. Nikki and I got tickets and joined the 30,000 screaming fans. Amazingly, the \”Samba\” culture here is very alive with the youth of Brazil.
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Forteleza…..Day 1 July 4th, 2013 – Time: -3 on GMT Happy 4th of July to all our Yankee Doodle friends around the world! We arrived at Forteleza around 8 a.m. in a blustery southeasterly. Once we came around the southeast end of the bay, the conditions became flat. The first thing we noticed was the
Fernando de Noronha to Forteleza, Brazil……Day 1 July 1st, written the morning of the 2nd, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: -2 on GMT We motored out from Fernando yesterday in calm conditions to the end of the island. It is a lovely island! From there, we set course to Forteleza and were sailing within about three
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Fernando de Noronha and Departure….. June 30th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: -2 on GMT When we first arrived here on Friday night, all was calm. Saturday however was a holiday here and the party boats came out in force. The music was bizarrely loud and the stereo speakers were blow out years ago. Frankly, I
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Ascension Island to Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)…..Day 6.7 June 28th, written from the anchorage on June 29th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: -2 on GMT Yesterday morning, we set the full main and genoa on a port tack beam/broad reach. The wind predictions were from the NE, but a few hours later, the rains came constantly
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Ascension Island to Fernando de Noronha, Braill…..Day 6 June 27th, written the morning of June 28th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: -1 on GMT Yesterday was a bit frustrating. The squalls were all around and for the most part they would take the wind away. The short bursts would get us to put up the spinnaker
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Ascension Island to Fernando de Noronha Island, Brazil…..Day 5 June 26th, written the morning of June 27th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: -1 on GMT We ran with the spinnaker on starboard tack all day yesterday. This was a pretty neat feat as we really didn\’t seem to have enough wind to do so. We were
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Ascension to Fernando de Noronha Island (Brazil)…..Day 4 June 26th, written the morning of June 27th, 2013 (Western Hemisphere) Time: -1 on GMT A most interesting day. It started with just enough wind not to have me put up the spinnaker and lasted that way till around 2 p.m. local time. Then the winds started
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