2001 Travel Notes
In May 2001 we sailed Atom from Trinidad to Margarita Island, Venezuela. On May 10 we departed Margarita on the 28-foot Taipan sloop Islander to deliver her to Brazil, which is described in the The Long Way Back To Brazil on the Articles page.
Click image for Islander's route from
Venezuela to Brazil.
On November 3, Mei and I sailed as hired crew from Cabedelo, Brazil back to Trinidad on the 44-foot Dean Catamaran Dawn Dancer, thus completing a long circular cruise around the Atlantic. The 2,050 nautical mile return passage to Trinidad took 12 sailing days plus a one day layover at French Guiana's Iles du Salut. My previous visit to Iles du Salut is described in my article in the May/June issue of Latitudes & Attitudes Magazine, called There's This Place: Devil's Island. Check out The Multihull Experience for a description of what it's like for a longtime monohull sailor to make his first long offshore passage on a flashy new catamaran. Find out if sailing level at 10 knots is really the best way to cruise. On November 23 we returned to Margarita Island, launched Atom, and took off to cruise the coast and islands of Venezuela.
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| The catamaran Dawn Dancer on
the Paraiba River, Brazil. |
Atom secluded in Mochima Park, Venezuela. December 2001. |
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