The leg from Natal to Fortaleza was enjoyable at the beginning, but very tough once we got near Fortaleza. First of all Fortaleza is a...

We also visited Tibao do Sul. Initially we wanted to get there by boat. I read a Brazilian pilot book very popular among Brazilian...

Pipa beach is a major surfing destination in Brazil.  It was just a fishing village with no roads until some surfers in the 70s...

The passage to Jacarè was the last leg we did with Mario as a crew. It was easier than the previous one but had its own challenges....

North of Recife there is one little town that after Parati and Ouro Preto, is one of the best preserved colonial villages in Brazil:...

Mario arrived in Salvador as soon as he graduated High School. Well, he went to Greece first with his schoolmates to celebrate the end of...

Itaparica is an island right in front of Salvador, in the Baia de Todos Os Santos, the largest bay in Brazil, with 56 islands! We visited...

We navigated the river Paraguaçu to get to see the beautiful and remote convent of Saint Antony.  What an experience!  We felt like in...

Morro de São Paulo is a lovely village some 30 nautical miles south of Salvador.  It’s the closest thing to a Mediterranean island...

Salvador the Bahia is an important landmark in our voyage. After visiting Cape of Good Hope last year, seeing a full scale reproduction...

Some 30 nautical miles north of Itacarè lays the Bay of Camamu. There are a lot of different villages in the bay and up the river. For us...

To get to Santa Cruz Cabralia we anchored in front of Santo Andrè, also sadly known as Villa do Sete a Um (Seven to One).  It’s here that...

Time has come for us to start heading north towards the Caribbean.  We left once again Rio de Janario on April 1st at 22:00, destination...

During our stay in Rio, to take a break from the carnival with our friends Joaquin and Monica we decided to get a rental car and visit...

To be honest, at the beginning I wasn’t particularly interested in visiting Rio, especially during Carnival. Rio was very low on my...

Our first sail out of the bay of Ilha Grande was to Ubatuba, some 30 nautical miles south west.  It was a very nice sensation to get...

Some old salt was once asked what was “cruising life” and the reply was “Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic places”.  There is some...

After sailing 4,387nm and spending 35 days at sea, Oroboro safely anchored in Ilha Grande, Brazil, on February 1st, 2019. I felt like the...