Richard
Sun Sep 27 9:19:49 EDT 2009, Itajai, SC, Brazil

Museum in Itajai

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Richard
Sun Sep 27 9:17:36 EDT 2009, Itajai, SC, Brazil

Itajai is a larger city, across the Rio Itajai from Navegantes. I was there on Friday doing the clearing out process (several offices need to be visited to get permission to legally leave Brazil). It seems a clean and pleasant place.

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Richard
Wed Sep 23 10:46:58 EDT 2009, Navegantes, SC, Brazil

A rope on a cleat holds down the inboard end of the anchor. New roller (white) is same shape as old roller (black), just farther over so the anchor doesn't hit the roller-furling drum (the dark grey circular thing).

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Richard
Wed Sep 23 10:37:38 EDT 2009, Navegantes, SC, Brazil

Locking pin added to bowsprit to hold Raya 2500 anchor.

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Richard
Tue Sep 22 0:00:00 EDT 2009

Issuma is the red boat behind the white-and-blue fishing boat, Adamantina. Adamantina has the kind of anchor (Northill style) typically seen on Brazilian fishing boats. These anchors are made to order by boatyards.

I had wanted a bigger anchor for a long time. I tried to buy a Rocna, because their 55kg (120lb) model seemed the size I wanted, but Rocnas are not really available in much of South America. In Florianapolis, quite near to where I am now, Ancora Latina makes their Raya anchors. While the very helpful Ancora Latina folks did not have an anchor size that was as heavy as I wanted, their 40kg (88lb) anchor seemed like it would work well for my boat, AND they were willing to bring the anchor over and put it aboard to see if it would fit. Fitting a new anchor can be a big deal, so I took them up on their offer, they drove over with their Raya 2500 and we put it aboard and saw that it would fit with some work.

The boatyard added another anchor roller beside the existing ones, made a lock mechanism to hold the anchor securely in place, and made a cleat (in Brazil, cleats tend to be made, not bought) to tie the anchor down for additional security (it is very important not to have a heavy, sharp anchor ever get loose at sea).

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Richard
Mon Sep 21 0:00:00 EDT 2009

The picture is looking down into the forepeak. The white rope (polyester) is wound onto a stainless steel reel that was built for this space. There is 70m of anchor chain in the chain locker, and not really room for any more chain.

The purpose of the rope is to attach it to the anchor chain, so when anchoring in deep water, 70 metres of chain and up to about 100 metres of rope can be used. This should make it reasonable to anchor in up to about 50 metres of water. As the anchor winch is not designed for rope, anchoring in water that deep is expected to result in good exercise bringing the anchor up :).

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Richard
Sun Sep 20 0:01:00 EDT 2009, Navegantes, SC, Brazil

After the sting-like stuff has been put between the planks, a thick, hot liquid called asphaltum is poured into the space between the planks by the ever-smiling grandfather in the picture. The asphaltum is prepared by melting it in old paint cans over a wood fire.

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Richard
Sun Sep 20 0:00:00 EDT 2009, Navegantes, SC, Brazil

To stop water going between the planks on the deck of my neighbor's wooden fishing boat, string-like stuff which expands when wet is pounded between the planks.

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Maggie/Richard
Sat Sep 19 8:35:32 EDT 2009, Parati, RJ, Brazil

Just to break up the boat maintenance pictures, here is a church (igreja) in Paraty.

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Richard
Wed Sep 16 11:06:59 EDT 2009, Navegantes, SC, Brazil

The windows in the pilothouse were old and getting hard to see thru (polycarbonate fogs up after a few years of exposure to sun), so they were replaced with thicker ones, and reinforcing bars were added to the middle of the window to make them stronger.

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