Caesar Stokholm do "Easy Rider" - Velejadores solitários 1

O velejador solitário Caesar Stokholm a bordo do belo e sólido "Easy Rider" na Ilha Grande - 2/9/2012 - foto de Fernando Costa

Criei esta nova série de posts, amigas e amigos leitores, para partilhar com vocês os sábios conselhos e sugestões dos maiores aventureiros deste mundo. Quais? Os navegantes solitários, é lógico. O primeiro da minha lista é Caesar Stokholm, simpático velejador escandinavo, que tive o prazer de conhecer e entrevistar na paradisíaca Ilha Grande ontem, 1/9/2012, no agradável AQUARIO. Seu veleiro "Easy Rider" é um

belo clássico, sólido e charmoso. A entrevista vai em inglês. Tudo bem? 

Obrigado pela ajuda Márcio.

Obrigado por redigir a versão final do texto Barbara. :)

Bons ventos amigo Caesar!

Fernando Costa

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Fernando - Why do you like sea sailing?

Caesar - I once became lone sailor on the Indian Ocean and I discovered it was just my way... and since then I have never changed my mind.

Fernando - Please give me your top advices for single-handed sailing? 

Caesar - You have to avoid the shipping line, fore example the shortest way between two peninsulas. Keep 200 fathoms from the deep line in order to cross less fishing boats.

At night, have the most powerful light you can get, but remember that you are harder to spot during day time.

A golden rule, now. If you think for example that you should make your equipment stronger or should you take in a reef, don’t think more, do it! 

Fernando - Tell me please the most dangerous situation you lived in the sea.

Caesar - The biggest danger for me has always been in situations in which I have had too little of sleep. Lack of sleep takes away your right evaluation of a situation that would be normally easy solved.

Fernando - What do think about sailing alone along the Brazilian coast?

Caesar - The main problem here are the fishing boats, which have not correct lights when they have any, and floating fish nets.

Fernando - What is your greatest pleasure in sailing on the ocean? 

Caesar - The experiment of wildlife! It is wonderful to be able to get close to dolphins and to sail side by side with a whale. To be followed by albatrosses and gannets, that is just great!

Fernando - Do you know something more intelligent and beautiful than a sailboat in the world?

Caesar - A Brazilian woman!