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Boats |
Amyr Klink`s Paratii in a brazilian stamp |
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ACCESS 
Access, the Multichine 28 built by the Brazilian computer analyst Flavio Bezerra, is already the first great name of this class, our ultimate cruising design of this size. In February 2008 Access was the first Multichine 28 to accomplish an international trip, sailing single-handed from Rio de Janeiro to Saint Martin in the Caribbean, in a trip full of incidents, when Flavio had the chance to prove the good sailor he is, arriving at his port of destination with his boat in very good condition, despite having collided with a whale that damaged his rudder and being tossed about in a fierce gale five days before arrival. Being a very skilled amateur builder, Flavio made his boat almost unassisted, and he was so determined with his plans that he used to sleep many times in the building shed, after working overtime till late in the evening. The area where he built the boat is notorious for criminality and a few times he recovered lead bullets smashed against the wall above the bed where he slept. He had to leave his job to finish his boat in the shortest time possible and he went bust on doing it, needing to find free-lance part time jobs just to pay the expenses to put his boat in the water. Then, without cash and in a desperate urge to leave to accomplish his purpose of traveling with his newly concluded yacht, he had to sell his last possession, his motorbike, just to finance the trip, never mentioning that the money was not enough for the acquisition of an engine or any means of recharging his 70 Amps/hour car battery. Without any means of self-steering, Flavio had to hold the tiller whenever the boat wasn’t sailing close hauled. But he took his boat sound and safe to port and now he will be able to fit his beloved Access properly and continue his trip in much better conditions. Since there are hundreds of other builders of this class in ten different countries getting ready to start their own adventures, it will always be an honor for him to be the first MC28 owner to become a member of the RBYD Hall of Fame. |
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ANTARES 
This Multichine 37 built in steel, is in her second North Atlantic trip. Her new owner Sérgio Magini bought her from Roberto Fuchs, the builder and first owner. Sergio at the moment is ordering a new 50 footer with a swing keel configuration and for this reason he is offering her for sale in the American or European market, which we reckon will not be difficult, thanks to the high quality of her construction and the beauty of her joinery. |
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CARAPITANGA 
This fiberglass sloop Aladin 30, belongs to the journalist Márcio Dottori, technical advisor for the Brazilian magazine " Revista Náutica". In the summer of 1999 Márcio sailed solitary from Santos to Cape Town. On his return trip, Márcio was paid a homage by all the flotilla of Aladdin 30`s. It was scheduled an encounter five nautical miles south of Joatinga Point in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and this happened with a Swiss precision. After 3600 miles, in the near minute scheduled all boats were circling Marcio's yacht when the best beer of his life was thrown into his hands. Following, the whole fleet patrolled him for 120 nautical miles till his safe arrival at the port of Santos. |
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POLAR 65 FRATERNIDADE
Aleixo left Salvador, Brazil, in January 2010, bound for a two years round the world trip, taking with him a crew of eleven young sailors with several crew swaps along the way, allowing for that matter that a larger number of apprentices would profit from his expertise and sailing skills. The Atlantic stretch of the trip had little spare time spent ashore, with one only stopover at Grenada, West Indies, before reaching Colon, in the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal. From Panama Fraternidade sailed to the Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti, Rarotonga and Thursday Island, in the Torres Straight, the threshold to the Indian Ocean. From Thursday Island she went to the idyllic Bali, Indonesia, where Aleixo hired an artisan to engrave the bright-work of the saloon with oriental style carvings, producing an atmosphere of art gallery in the social area of the boat. The next ports of call were Galle, Sirilanka, and Cochin, India. From there Fraternidade joined a rally with the purpose of crossing the pirate infested zone of the western Indian Ocean, with the strategy of sailing inside the Oman and Yemen territorial waters. The crossing of the Red Sea and the transit through the Suez Canal were eventless, and when in Mediterranean waters, Aleixo sailed to Turkey, and, after crossing the Bosporus, sailed straight to the country where he was born, calling at Odessa, where he was received as a celebrity, deserving a long duration TV program produced by the state TV. Back into the Mediterranean, the rest of the trip was like the script of touristic film, with stopovers in the Greek Islands, south of Italy and Spanish Riviera. After crossing Gibraltar, the last port to be visited was Las Palmas, in the Canary Island, going from there straight to Salvador, the port of departure. That probably was only the first adventure of Fraternidade, we expecting to hear about the old salt future adventures to be in high latitudes, the unequivocal endowment of the Polar 65. |
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GURUÇÁ 
is a Cape Horn 35, of fiberglass construction. This Yacht left Rio de Janeiro for the Caribbean where she spent a season. During her stay in the island of Saint Martin she was caught by Louis, one of the most violent hurricanes ever. A few days after the passage of this hurricane which destroyed 90% of the fleet stationed there, her owner and builder, Fausto Pignaton, sailed back to Brazil solo, having sailed from Saint Martin to Fernando de Noronha in twenty one days beating against head winds and currents. Guruça is now in Florianópolis, state of Santa Catarina, in the southern part of Brazil. |
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SAMOA 29 HIPPOCAMPUS COMPLETES A ROUND THE WORLD TRIP It's with pride and joy in our hearts that we commemorate the successful
circum-navigation of the Samoa 29 Hippocampus, the second boat of that
design to accomplish that feat.
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JORNAL  This yacht is a Samoa 29 built together with ten other ones by a group
of amateur builders in the city of Rio de Janeiro. These boats became
famous for their sturdy construction and beautiful finishing. One of these
Samoas was sold to the couple Wilmar and Gina who went for a round the
world trip completed in November 2000, after four years and many countries
visited. Their site www.veleirojornal.com.br has been linked to ours since
their departure, so you possibly know something about their voyage. We
will soon have more news.
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SAMOA 34 LUTHIER 
The Samoa 34 Luthier is a good example of what can be achieved by an amateur builder when deciding to put in practice the nurtured dream of crossing an ocean with a boat built with his own hands. It was exactly this prowess that the couple Dorival and Catarina Gimenes had managed to accomplish. In December, 2011, they completed the so called “Circuit of the Atlantic”, a trip that begins somewhere in the east coast of South America, reaches the West Indies, leaves the Caribbean at the end of the cruising season bound for Europe with a call in Azores, and then return by the classic route, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde, ending up in the same port of departure. |
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MAITAIROA 
A nine meters LOA sail boat, designed and built exclusively for the Roberto Barros family. This boat accomplished a few pioneer voyages under the Brazilian flag. First a South Atlantic crossing by the Roaring Forties to Cape Town and four years later she was again the first Brazilian Yacht to navigate beyond the 50 degrees South latitude in an unforgettable voyage to the Falkland Islands. After this trip Maitairoa was sold, and her present owner, the Argentinean Sandra Saltu, sailed from Rio de Janeiro to the Caribbean, then to Azores and the Mediterranean. Presently Maitairoa is in Trieste, Italy. |
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PARATII 
Amyr Klink, the Brazilian solitary navigator, completed the difficult
task of circumnavigating the Antarctic continent aboard his aluminum yacht
Paratii. He reported reaching the fantastic speed of twenty-five knots
while surfing gigantic waves without loosing steering control. The whole
trip was as endurance test, for both Amyr and his polar yacht. The news of this voyage was published by some of the most important yachting magazines of the world, praising the merits of this Yacht. Paratii had already proven herself for being one of the two first single handed yachts to hibernate in the Antarctic continent, and for this accomplishment she received the Tilman prize awarded by the Royal Cruising Club as a superb polar yacht. Amyr related his latest adventures in a present bestseller Endless Sea. In his accounts one of the reasons for the success of the trip was the seaworthiness of his boat. |
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SCIROCCO 
Our first Multichine 45 is already under way. Her owner, Luiz Augusto Scarante left Antonina, her homeport intending to sail to the Caribbean where he expects to spend two years. The next destination will be to the South Pacific followed by a trade wind circumnavigation. You can follow this voyage in the internet, in the site www.scirocco.com.br |
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TAHUÁ 
The first Cape Horn 35 to be launched. Built in strip planking by her owner Ricardo Lepreri sailed from Santos to the Caribbean and back. The return trip was performed out of season, but Tahuá faced bravely strong currents and heavy southeasterly winds taking lightly all the adverse conditions. At the moment she is in the port of Bracuhy , Angra dos Reis, where she is being used as a charter boat. |
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TAHIU Is a Multichine 37 built in steel. After a sojourn in the Caribbean, this yacht sailed back home and in September 1999 took place in the Recife-Fernando de Noronha race, winning for the second year consecutively in it's class. |
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UTOPIA  In
February 2006, the Cape Horn 35 Utopia, ex - Guruçá, completed
a round the World trip experiencing many thrilling situations, like hitting
a rock at full speed in Indonesia without suffering any damage, having
survived the terrible December 2004 tsunami in Thailand, watching the
seas engulfing the palm tree fronds on the beach in front, later living
many adventures in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, where he claimed
to have confronted with Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and when already
in the Atlantic, not far from Cape Verde Islands, suffered an attacked
by sperm whales, which lunged against the propeller, bending the shaft
strut and leaving her without auxiliary propulsion for the rest of the
trip. Marco Cianflonne, her skipper, is presently planning a second circum-navigation,
this time reserving for the South Pacific alone two years of the voyage's
duration. The lesson the Cape Horn 35 taught him is that she is immensely
strong and fitted for the most demanding nautical adventures. |
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In October 2011 another round the world voyage was completed by a yacht designed by the B & G Yacht Design office. This time this feat was accomplished by the Polar 65 Fraternidade, (means fraternity in Portuguese), the metallic sailboat built by the Ukrainian/Brazilian sailor Alexis (Aleixo) Belov, a sailor with three previous circum-navigations in solitary in his curriculum, with the intention of being a school-ship, for that matter being specified to be an authentic armour-plated warship, a yacht capable of sailing in the worst weather conditions in any latitude. Besides its superb sturdiness the boat has the capacity to control its draught by means of a swinging retractable keel, a feature that allows finding shelter in shallow waters otherwise inaccessible to fixed keel sailboats of same displacement.;)
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