Landfall Jacare
16 April 2016 | Brazil
Norma and Phil
It ain't 'arf wet. We had no idea that the sky could hold so much water or that it could dump so much sustainably. It's been wet, wet , wet since Friday morning and it's weird. This is heading for a complaint, but we had better not. Anyways, our arrival at Cabadelo and the entrance to Rio Paraiba came together quite well as we wanted daylight, slack water with then a rising tide and we got all that with dawn today. It meant that we had to slow down and then heave-to for about 3 hours, but despite the wind of 18kts and the poor visibility of 100-200 metres in the rain we passed through the marked channel and on up river quite easily. The waypoints on the Marina Jacare website were good and when we arrived three marina guys came out to help us take a mooring to await a slackening in the current when we could berth at the marina. They were very helpful with that as we went in stern-to, taking our lines to the dock and from the bow to their moorings.
We met our old friends Ann and Stefan on SAS3 who have been here about a week. Then the marina boss, Nicolas, who we know from the 2009-10 Rallye Iles du Soleil, took us to get some cash. We have a lot of catching up to do with Nicolas who worked tirelessly for the rally participants back then.
So, another continent but a familiar place although we don't think we will be doing the all-day caiparinha drinking on a boat to the sandbanks that featured when we were here in January 2010.
However, we don't 'arf 'ave a lot of Simonsig champers to get through ... and a few caiparinhas will follow no doubt.
Happy days.
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