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Episode #326 | Flying to Barbados
To get Yabá ready for the next leg of our journey up the coast, it’s time for a massive upgrade: a brand-new sail wardrobe. But getting four heavy sails back to the boat means leaving Rio behind, making a pitstop in Arraial do Cabo to leave the boat in good hands,...
Saying goodbye to Lucas after weeks on board, but the crew swap is instant. Gui is back on Yabá! After a final trek through the jungle to the white sands of Lopes Mendes in Ilha Grande, we run our pre-departure engine checks and set a course straight for Rio de Janeiro.
Passing through the colonial...
Sailing Yabá 324: Sailing to Brazil’s Most Infamous Island: Bees, Miracle Fruit & Prison Ruins (Ilha Grande)
We pull anchor from the historic town of Paraty and set sail for Ilha Grande, an island famous for its pristine, sheltered anchorages, but hiding a dark, complex past.
Tucked away in th...
Sailing yaba Episode 323
We set sail from Ilhabela at dawn in pouring rain, putting Vini’s old saying to the test: “Leaving in bad weather brings good luck.” A wet and shaky passage later, Yabá drops anchor in the calm, sunlit waters of Paraty!
Between catching up on overdue laundry, prepping for ...
Sailing yaba Episode #323
It's time to leave the incredible Varadouro Channel and make our way to Cananéia for some important repairs and upgrades before continuing north.
After ripping our mainsail, we patch it up and reinforce our mainmast with wedges to stop it from moving under load. With Y...
This week, I sail through one of Brazil's best-kept secrets: the Varadouro Channel, a narrow waterway winding through the world's largest continuous stretch of Atlantic Rainforest.
Together with two friends, we navigate shallow, uncharted channels, sandbanks, mangroves, and remote caiçara ...
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*Episode 313 | Madness at the yard*
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*Episode 312 | Building new spreaders for Yabá… or the foundation for a crow’s nest like a real wooden boat!*
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*Episode 311 | We have a 3-inch hole in our hull and the clock is ticking. If we don't find a replacement for this critical part immediately, Yabá isn't going anywhere.*
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*Episode 310 | Another week of chaos at the shipyard*
After two years living aboard, we’re back at the shipyard! Not just to maintain Yabá, but to evolve her. In this episode we move her deeper into the yard, take a chainsaw to our new boom and open our gearbox up. The "shipyard chaos" is ...
*Episode 309 | Back at the shipyard, the upgrades continue.*
After two years living aboard Yabá, we’re finally tackling one of the things we missed the most at sea: an autopilot. But on a wooden boat like ours, nothing is ever simple… before installing it, we need to rework the rudder.
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*Episode 308 | Shipyard madness!*
After the adrenaline of hauling out an 88ft wooden boat, the reality is setting in. We finally have Yabá in the dry, and the list of "impossible" tasks we’ve carried for two years is now our daily life.
This week is pure shipyard madness. We are working o...
*Episode 307 | The moment of truth has finally arrived.*
After 18 days of watching the tides and waiting for our window, it’s finally our turn. We are hauling out Yabá, our 88ft wooden home, for the first time since her major rebuild to uncover the hidden damage after 2 years at sea.
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*Episode 306 | The final countdown to the haul out is here.*
In this episode, we tackle some of the most massive woodwork of the entire restoration. We are building the gaff spars, the main boom, and the jaws entirely from scratch. This isn’t just carpentry, it’s a race against the clock. The moon i...
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