Salve amigos do Altomar, não sei se vocês estão ligados, mas tem um grande velejador norte-americano numa situação delicada, a seiscentas milhas da costa da Bahia.
Posição atual :
Wed 22/Feb 07:01 GMT
14 59.370 S 28 36.142 W
Course: 3.3 kts, 353° true.
O nome dele é MATT RUTHERFORD e ele será, se for, a primeira pessoa a
circunavegar o continente americano em solitário.
Leiam a última mensagem dele:
600 miles east of Brazil (Day 253)
Posted on February 21, 2012 by Matt
It’s come to my attention that not everyone knows there is a tracking device on the web site. I don’t have internet access and so I’ve never seen my own web site but somewhere on the top of the home page you can click and you will see my exact position, speed, lat and long, ect.
It’s been a busy and somewhat frustrating week. I had light easterly winds for some time and although I wasn’t moving too quickly I was heading in the right direction and all in all it was pleasant. It was about as easy and comfortable as life at sea can get. Unfortunately other problems arose. When you are at home you can plug in a laptop or some other appliance without having to worry about how much power it uses. You have nearly infinite power being piped into your home (hence your electric bill). At sea I have to generate my own power in order to run my computer, GPS, or anything for that matter. Since I lost all solar panels back by the equator in the Pacific it has been a challenge to keep enough power in my batteries. I had one advantage – I had saved fuel so in a pinch I could run my engine in idle to charge my batteries. I didn’t have enough fuel to use my engine for propulsion but I could still (once in a while) give my batteries a good charge. I still have about 5 gallons of diesel set aside for this purpose but it seems that... - CONTINUA AQUI http://www.solotheamericas.org/?p=412
Leiam meu último post sobre ele:
http://estreladalvacabofrio.blogspot.com/2012/02/matt-rutherford-600-miles-east-of.html
Eu passei a admirá-lo lendo seus ótimo blog.
O cara navega e escreve muito bem. É conhecido como "O MacGyver dos Mares".
Se alguém pensar em alguma forma de ajudá-lo, isso pro caso dele vir a perdir ajuda, por favor...
Bons ventos a todos!
Minha mensagem para o Luciano do grupo Altomar
ResponderExcluirSalve Luciano !
Parabéns pela mensagem que você acaba de enviar ao Matt. Ela ilustra muito bem a solidariedade milenar que sempre caracterizou os verdadeiros homens da MAR.
Bons ventos companheiro!
Fernando Costa
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Airton Luciano Aragao says:
February 22, 2012 at 10:10 am
Matt
I have a small catamaran (see blog) and live in Fortaleza – Ceara – Brazil. If you can go near (40 nm) the coast I can provide you with some assistance (water, fuel, food, gas generator (?) etc.). I am presentely at Rio de Janeiro but next sunday (February/26) I will be back in Fortaleza.
Texto interessante sobre Matt Rutherford:
ResponderExcluirMatt Rutherford is from a bygone age, an age of Shackleton, Cook and Scott. He is on a small 27 foot sailboat, and is circling the Americas – Atlantic, Northwest Passage, Alaska, the Pacific, the Horn, and now the Atlantic. He is doing it on the St. Brenden, a 27 foot (you read that right) Albin-Vega. Right now he is in the middle of the South Atlantic making his way home for Annapolis.
The scope of this journey cannot be overstated. It will go down as one of the great sea voyages and feats of seamanship upon completion. He will not touch land the entire voyage. His yacht has been accumulating water in the bilge and his pumps have failed – forcing him to use the most... Read more here:http://bit.ly/xk5ndC
In this instance, CRAB is an acronym for Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating, a nonprofit program devoted to getting people with disabilities into sailing. Chasing this crab is Matt Rutherford, a 30-year-old resident of Maryland. He set sail on June 11, 2011, for a solo circumnavigation of the Americas via the Northwest Passage and Cape Horn. Sailing an older 27-foot Albin Vega that he had refurbished for this voyage, Rutherford rounded Cape Horn on January 10, 2012. When Rutherford completes this voyage, he will be the first person to do the 25,000-mile passage (about 300 days) alone and without stopping. His motivation for the trip is to show that there are few limits to what any determined person can... http://www.yachtingmagazine.com/solotheamericas
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