08/09/08, Jacare, Brazil
This is our local beach at Intermares, where they were having a surfing competition. It is known at the Surfers Beach Bar.
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Suppose we should say 'sorry that you are back' but we hope the time goes quick and you will be back in Brazil before you know. Brazil looks really good and we are getting more and more anxious to be there as well. Today is the big day and we will update as soon as things have happened. There's a big storm raging and the nerves are on end once again. Look after yourselves and talk soon. Francois & Mads
08/09/08, Jacare, Brazil
Well I am back at work and Glyn is in South Africa. We had a fantastic time in Brazil this time. The first 2 weeks or so we did a lot of walking around and also found out how the bus system works and ventured further away each day. This is a photo of our outing to the big city of Joao Passoa. We caught the train in, and spend the day walking around the shops and markets, and stopping for an odd cerveja (beer)
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30/08/08, Rio, Brazil
Well I cannot load any photos from here but thought I would just update on what we are up to. We are now in Rio, Brazil and having a wonderful time. Our time up in Jacare with Pizzazz was also great, we had some wonderful weather while there and now in Rio too. We did a lot of walking around and saw a lot while up at Pizzazz, but Rio has just been more special. The trip to Rio has been worth every penny. We have been up to the statue of Christ by Train and to Sugar Loaf with the cable cars, and what wonderful views from these locations. Hopefully I will have photos posted here next weekend, when I am back in the office.
Well, tomorrow (Sunday) is our last day in Rio, we are then going about 2 hours north of here, to a place called Buzios for 2 days then we fly back on Wednesday next week and I will be back in the office on Friday. So until then, love to all and we are having a great time here. Hugh & Glyn
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06/08/08, Jacare, Brazil
Well I am still in Angola and missing Glyn's birthday today, but it is my last day of work again. So tomorrow I fly back to South Africa and stay over for one night and then Friday we are both flying back to Pizzazz, in Jacare, Brazil. We are not planning on moving Pizzazz this time, we have some boat work to do and then want to spend time around Joao Passoa and also just relaxing on the boat. On the 25th Aug. we are flying down to Rio and spending 9 days or so there and then return to SA, and me to Angola on the 4th Sep.
So we will be updating the blog...hopefully inbetween so keep an eye. Thanks Eric & Glynie for birthday wishes for Glyn.
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12/07/08, Jacare, Brazil
So this is a shot of the Marina where Pizzazz is moored right now, so looking forward to our return........
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Checking to see how your trip is going. Hope you are both well. Wanted to wish GlennieH a Happy Birthday! Hope to hear from you soon!
12/07/08, Brazil
So after 17 days at sea, we entered the river into the port of Cabadelo, but we continued up the river to a place called Jacare, where we found a Marina. For the first few days we anchored off the Marina and some local restaurants and enjoyed the festivities everyday from the restaurants. Everyday at 16h00, the bands from all 4 restaurants would start playing loud.....I mean loud music, then at 17h00...everyday...they would have a guy dressed in white playing the Balero on his saxaphone, but not just playing, he would walk out from one of the 4 restaurants and get into a small boat, like canoe, and then the paddler would paddle this guy while he stands in the boat, up and down in front of the restaurants for about an hour. The restaurants are packed out with people every night, and then afterwards the bands would continue playing. In the week the bands stop at about 19h00 but on weekends till early hours of the morning, they definitely have spirit and enjoy their music, we enjoyed it as well.
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12/07/08, South Atlantic
From about 2 days out of Brazil we did get rain squalls which come with strong winds and rain but luckily for only short periods, but does make some hard work.......
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12/07/08, South Atlantic
This leg was our best sailing we had, we sailed for 10-12 days without adjusting anything, just reading, relaxing and just keeping an eye on the compass, and then we caught a big one............which kept us going for days.
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12/07/08, South Atlantic
Just another sunset.....
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12/07/08, St Helena
So after 5 days anchored off St Helena, it was time to move on, we had wished we had another week here, but duty calls.......It rained most of our days in St Helena, but as we sailed away we also left the cloud and rain behind......
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12/07/08, St Helena
The Governor's place.....
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12/07/08, St Helena
It is really a beautiful Island....
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12/07/08, St Helena
The countryside reminded us of the UK......
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12/07/08, St Helena
This is where he was buried on St Helena, but 19 years later, the French got permission to remove his body from St Helena and return it to France. Francesco Antommarchi, the physician chosen by Napoleon's family, led the autopsy, and the cause of death was found to be stomach cancer. In the latter half of the twentieth century, several people claimed other causes for his death including deliberate arsenic poisoning.
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12/07/08, St Helena
Napoleon spent the last six years of his life under British supervision on the island of Saint Helena, at Longwood House. This is a picture of the house. There were several plots to rescue Napoleon from captivity, including one from Brazil and another from Texas, even a plan to rescue him using a submarine. Napoleon died on 5 May 1821, He had asked in his will to be buried on the banks of the Seine, but was buried on St. Helena, in the "valley of the willows", in an unmarked tomb. Something we did not know is St Helena was also used to keep over 5000 boers captive here during the Boer War.
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11/07/08, St Helena
The unusual layout of the town of Jamestown.....
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11/07/08, St Helena
It looks scary......
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11/07/08, St Helena
Now this is the famous Jacob's Ladder, it had 700 steps but one has gone so it consists of 699 steps now. It goes from the town straight up the cliff on the right of the picture from the anchorage, upto the houses. When we were there standing around at the top, a women arrived there in her tracksuit and we spoke to her before she went down the ladder, but she never walked it...she ran down.......we timed her and she only took 3 minutes I think it was and she said she did it every day.....
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11/07/08, St Helena
This is the famous Ann's Place restaurant...famous between all the yachties. They serve some great meals here and are always looking after all the yachties. It is situated in the Castle grounds which are very well kept....although the grass does look long here, but they had just had a lot of rain and floods, it was cut while we were there......
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11/07/08, St Helena
So this was where we anchored at St Helena, as can be seen on the left of the picture, there was a french company doing work on the cliff's because of all the falling rock into the harbour area. We were restricted with our movements off the boat every day, we had to be off the boat by 07h00, if we wanted to go ashore, or we could go between 12h15 and 12h45 and then only after 17h00, so was a bit inconvenient, luckily they provide a ferry service. Then when getting from the ferry to shore could be a mission with the swell, as they provide ropes with knots hanging so that you can grab these and swing ashore or into the boat, we were lucky as the swell was not that bad when we were there.
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11/07/08, St Helena
This was after we had rounded the north end of the Island and were lining up the anchorage just below all the houses on above the cliff.......
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11/07/08, St Helena
Then one day we came across St Helena.....what a site that was........
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11/07/08, Atlantic
This was some of our first catches at sea........every morning I would have to walk around the deck to pick up all the dead flying fish that comes aboard during the night. Some people actually fry them up but they were too boney for us, so we just threw them back overboard. This was our only type catches between Luderitz and St Helena.
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11/07/08, Atlantic
Some beauty at sea...
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11/07/08, Luderitz
Then eventually we left.....this was just out the harbour...before we ran into fog again, but typical coastline.
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11/07/08, Luderitz
They claim this to be their best beach.......
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11/07/08, Luderitz
Luderitz was very cold and foggy but we did get desparate for a braai........
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11/07/08, Luderitz
Great buildings...
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11/07/08, Luderitz
Looking across the town towards the harbour
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11/07/08, Luderitz
In town......they do have tarred roads but....
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11/07/08, Jacare, Brazil
So we crossed the Atlantic........now what....Well now I am back in Angola doing another stint of work, I arrived back yesterday, 10th July and will be here until the 7th August. We are planning on staying in Brazil for my next hitch off work, so will not be moving the boat. We hope to do some tours around Brazil, would like to see Rio and Salvador. But for now I would like to add a few photos from where we left off in Namibia.
The crossing went off well but I did feel a lot of pressure with our arrangement of Work/Sail which was not always enjoyable. We were getting to one stage, in Namibia, where we were within a week of calling it all off for this year as we were being delayed with bad weather in the Atlantic, which we were told was so unusual for the Atlantic. But we got away ok from Luderitz, yet in fog. The seas between Luderitz and St Helena were very uncomfortable, we kept on wondering if we were crossing the correct ocean, as the Atlantic is supposed...to be the easiest.....well after 14 days and on my birthday, we arrived in St Helena, the last 2 nights were the worst. After 5 days in St Helena, after lots of rain, we said our goodbyes to St Helena and we set course for Brazil. We wanted to stop off at Ascension Island but because of our schedule......we had to miss it. Then on this leg we had some of our best sailing ever, we had about 10-12 days of steady winds where we never touched our sails or the windvane, and Pizzazz just sailed along on her own, we caught a nice big fish, after only seeing dead flying fish on the deck every morning up till then, so it was very welcome at that stage. But after 17days, we saw land on the other side, our last 2 day/nights we had a lot of rain squalls which made things interesting again. We motored up the river to Jacare where we anchored and were quite pleased with ourselves.
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01/07/08, Jacare, Brazil
Well we arrived in Brazil on Sunday, (think 30th June!!). Internet was a problem in St Helena, so could not update the blog. We sailed for 14 days from Luderitz to St Helena, stayed for 5 days and then sailed straight through to Jacare, Brazil, which took 17 days. So we are both well and now busy organising our trip back and a safe place for Pizzazz. So keep checking, will update blog with more info and photos soon.
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Glen
B & Y
23/05/08, Luderitz
Well the weather looks good to leave tomorrow, Saturday 24th May, checking out today Friday and sailing for St Helena, so could be a while before we are available again.....
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We are thinking of you and wanted to wish you a very Happy Birthday! We hope your trip has been a good one and that this finds you safe & well. Love Eric & Glenys
Happy Birthday Hugh, no better place to have than on the blue, blue ocean.
Take care, thinking of yous
XXX
Typical Luderitz scenery......
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Good luck with the rest of the trip.
15/05/08, Luderitz
Pizzazz moored in very different surroundings
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All the very best
Thinking of yous
Yvonne & Brian
15/05/08, Luderitz
Our mooring in front of the Luderitz Yacht Club
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15/05/08, Luderitz
This is sailing into Luderitz on emergency tiller steering, and fog....and very cold........lots of fun.......
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15/05/08, Luderitz
We passed Cape Town early the next morning with no wind, so had to do quite a bit of motoring.
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15/05/08, Luderitz
Leaving Simonstown with a wind from the front, so had to tack to get out of False Bay. We rounded the Cape Point just as it was getting dark.
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15/05/08, Luderitz
Well we are still stuck in Luderitz, the weather is just not playing the game.....we are waiting for favourable weather but it seems like we have left it too late in the year. We have been given a 35-40 knot wind forecast on our route to St Helena and may have to sit for another week or so. will keep you posted.
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B & Y
08/05/08, Luderitz
Well we were on our way to St Helena when we got news of a front that would affect us, so after 4 days of sailing towards St Helena, we change our course for Luderitz. It was a difficult course as we were in a gale at the time and got news to run from a worse gale. We had to cross the SE winds and SW swell, so was very uncomfortable, the seas were the biggest we had seen before. Things carmed down as we got closer to Luderitz but it got very...very cold and also sailed into mist. But on our 6th day we approached Luderitz harbour and eventually picked up a bouy in front of the yacht club. We have enjoyed our stay here and are hoping to leave on the weekend 10th/11th, but weather permitting. I tried to load photos but the system here cannot handle it so will have to load another time, Thanks for all the e-mails and messages and we will keep in touch, chow for now. Hugh & Glyn
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We hpoe you guys are OK.
WE will keep truck of your gourney.
Good lock.
Regards
Kai & Michelle
27/04/08, Simonstown - Cape Town
So the day has finally arrived for us to sail away into the sunset. We have had a busy week preparing and final provisioning. We had a few problems sorted and others that surfaced as well. So we are hoping to sail away at about 1 to 2 o'clock today the 27th, and everything going well we should hopefully arrive in St Helena in about 2 weeks or so, we have decided to give Luderitz a miss, as we are leaving a few days later than we wanted to, so until St Helena, cheers to all.
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Hope that you have settled in and that you have following winds all the way to St Helena
Francois & Mads
16/04/08, Simonstown - Cape Town
Well the time has come for us to start thinking of leaving, I am on my last day of work 16th April, for the next 12 weeks and looking forward to getting out of here and onto Pizzazz in Cape Town. We should be back on Pizzazz on Saturday, to do our last bit of preparation for our departure for Brazil. We have hired a car for a few days to speed up the process. We hope to complete everything that is required and then leave before next weekend, 26th April.
Our planned route from here is still to sail up the coast towards Luderitz, Namibia, stay there for a few days to rest and do last diesel, water and provisions for the crossing to St Helena.
We will hopefully do a last entry before we leave Simonstown, next week some time, so until then......
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26/03/08, Cape Town
A shot of the mountain range around Table Mountain from Signal hill.....
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26/03/08, Cape Town
This is a shot from Signal Hill, of Table Bay with the famous Robben Island in the distance......
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26/03/08, Simonstown-Cape Town
A view from the moorings of False Bay Yacht Club......
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22/03/08, Simonstown-Cape Town
So with quite a few jobs off the list, we are just about ready, some final packing and tying up to do when we arrive again on the 19th April. We have had a great time in Simonstown, the Club has been great and am pleased we decided on going to Simonstown. The picture is the Simonstown waterfront as seen from the bow of Pizzazz, the house just below the house on the hill with the green roof........is our new friends, Ralph & Pats house, so can imagine the great view from there...
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Solid, seaworthy and 'comfortable'. May you have a wonderful trip.
Regards
ALAN
22/03/08, Simonstown-Cape Town
We were also lucky to be in town for the Navy Festival weekend. There were German Navy ships visiting and doing practice operations with the South African Navy. Saturday night they were shooting flares into the bay and firing rounds with tracers, so was quite a noisy weekend but a great weekend with canons firing through out the day, sounded like a war going on......
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22/03/08, Simonstown
On the 9th March we had the Argus Cycle race come through town and was very festive and a beautiful morning weatherwise, not a breath of wind and clear sky's
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Your cousin Anthony Butler would have passed you at around 7-7.30 am that day. He eventually finished in 2hr55min. Pretty good time!!
22/03/08, Simonstown-Cape Town
We met some great new friends and we also had some great old friends visiting as well. Our friend Peter from the yacht "Ianda" who we met in Richards Bay, was there and also checked on Pizzazz when we were away, which we were very greatful for. We met George & Colleen from the yacht "Affirmation" who we had some great evening with and helped us tremendously with transport and tours around Cape Town. We also met Ralph, Pat & Maureen, Ralph & Pat are resident in Simonstown and Pat's sister was visiting from Wales, super people and also had great evenings with them and thank them for a great...uninvited braai at their house with an excellent view of the bay. We also had friends Pam And Graham visiting from Hondurus, who also took us around on a tour and to visit other friend, Gerry & Yvonne in HoutBay and then we had our great friends Francois & Mads visiting and giving us more tours of Cape Town, so a great time was had by all.....
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