What Happens NOW? See How We Deal With An UNPLANNED Arrival To Brazil [Ep. 76]

We divert to a new country to make repairs on our sailboat, but will the grant us entry? You won’t believe what we see when we arrive to this unplanned location!

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After three weeks at sea it nips at our nerves that we have so much uncertainty about what the future holds. But we are well prepared with enough food, water, and fuel to carry on to the next place if we have to!

The port we find to enter is not a normal one for small yachts to enter the country, and our research on Brazil hasn’t told us too much since we originally did not intend to come here… See what happens when we finally make landfall!

So who is this crazy sailing couple making fun videos to share? Well, we are Kate and Curtis. We both sold up and headed out to sea, with the goal of sailing around the world via Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. We brought our mixed rescue dog along with us as she loves sailing and swimming too!

Our boat is a year 2000 J Boats J/46. We searched for 3 years for our perfect sailboat for sale, when we found it, we knew it was the one. We spent 6 months re-fitting it in Rhode Island and then went for our shakedown voyage in Maine. We stopped in Annapolis for a bit to do some more refit work and offshore modifications, then we set off to the open sea. We went to the Bahamas, Miami, US Virgin Islands, BVI, Grenada, Carriacou, St. Maarten, where we enjoyed outdoor adventures, scuba diving, and have now did an Atlantic Crossing to the Azores where we had a chance to fly our DJI drone (and learned how to fly a drone from a boat) and one of our favorite past times, mountain biking. After leaving the Azores we sailed to Tenerife. From there we have left on a huge voyage, transatlantic again, this time to South America as we head for our goal of rounding cape horn to enter the pacific ocean. We have sailed over 10,000 bluewater miles to date.

More about us at https://www.sweetruca.com

Enough of this, we hope you enjoy our relaxing video on #sailingsunday!

XO XO Sailing Sweet Ruca – Kate, Curtis & Roxy

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