Well after 3 years of travelling we finally went aground in Oceana. Whilst visiting the village of Suape we went aground on the falling tide and had to spend 4 hours waiting on a boat tilting over at 45 degrees until the sea came back to float us off. No damage done except to our egos!!!
Before leaving Salvador we had the last Soononmoon production of UV to go to and finally managed to persuade Diogo to play Sir Man at a decent hour when the club was full. Well after the initial problems of not having needles on the turntables Sir Man turned out his best DJ set in Brazil and had the club absolutely rocking.
Back to Oceana and the journey to the Caribean. Now with an extra crew member to help with the night watches as we took Itibere aboard in Itaparica planning to sail direct to the north east of Brazil as our stepping stone to the trade winds, well that was plan A anyhow......
As it turned out we managed to get down to plan F pretty quickly.
As we left Itaparica waving good bye to Salvador we noticed that the steel frame supporting the wind generator had broken and we had to pull in to Salvador once again to make some temporary repairs. Next morning we woke early for a 4 day passage to Jacare and set sail in fair winds, sunshine and good humour. 2 days later after bashing into headwinds of 30 knots trying to clear a headland that we couldn´t see for the rain, soaked through, tired, swearing that air travel was the way to go we realised that a revision to our schedule was in order. So, we dried out the interior of Oceana in Maceio where Andy was able to spend his birthday ashore. A revised itinery saw Oceana make stop overs in Suape and Recife before finally making Jacare 20 days after setting off from Bahia. Now we are waiting for the spring tides to dry Oceana out against a pier and give her bottom the once over with antifoul for our charge to the Caribean.
