Recife - Salvador : Sailing the Brazilian Coast

Cami De Conto

Just realised I haven’t published this trip from the end of January. This is because we haven’t have one moment of rest since we arrived in Brazil! For the trip from Recife to Salvador we had our friend Carolina onboard. Carol is a childhood friend from Camila, who lives now in Fortaleza and happened to be on vacation visiting her dad in Recife. We were very excited to have her sailing with us, as this was a very unexpected encounter! This trip was marked by two major events.. First is that we caught a barracuda! This was the first time ever that we caught a fish without having a friend onboard that was keen on fishing.. it means it was the first time that we actually had to make the fish tired, bring it onboard, kill it, clean it, cut it. I’m afraid to say this was also the last time we caught a fish onboard without having friends keen on fishing with us hahahaha First of all, we could see the teeth of the barracuda and we had no courage to bring it onboard. Imagine if it goes crazy out of control and bites us? Then, came the killing part.. it is really too dramatic. We were hitting the head of the fish with a hammer and it didn’t seemed to be dying.. in the end, it was almost a Tarantino movie, with blood everywhere. The cleaning and cutting part was the least traumatic part.. Carol and I did it 💪🏽💪🏽 The second event was Christopher getting sick. Two days prior our departure from Recife, there was a children bday party at the yacht club where we were staying, and Chris ended up joining the party and playing with some other kids. Of course this was going to happen, but I’m not used to have him playing with other babies.. Two days later he was sick!! He started with some high fever, what would naturally make me stressed, but thanks god Carol was sailing with us! Carol is a doctor and she examined Chris.. by the end of the day he had a red inflamed throat, running nose and a little fever still. We learned the lesson, not to let him play with random kids two days before sailing offshore 🙃 Despires the sickness, he was still a very happy boy and he was playing the entire time! Happy baby, happy parents! Regarding the sailing, again we had ideal sailing conditions.. beam reaching wind, 10 to 12 kts, sunny days and starry clear nights. We are in love with the sailing here in Brazil! And Carol feel I love with sailing now! Specially with the big pod of dolphins that welcomed us the morning we arrived in Salvador! We were a bit worried because we didn’t have any confirmation of a marina to put Songster and we had to catch a flight to visit my parents a few days later. But it all went fine and we found a place in Bahia Marina! Time to explore the land of the best street Carnival of Brazil!