Last time I talked to my best friends we discussed my sailing dream. I am every day more and more excited about it and about making it real. There are few but very important things I need, to realize this dream among finishing my PhD, raising money, buy the boat, learn to sail and go. While I can't do them all I spend some of my procrastinating time doing the small things, like for example, planing the route. I want a route that's doable in less than a year, and I did some research about it. The route I came out with should be done in about 9 to 10 months giving us time for some stops in main planned places. These are the places we aim to spend some time:
Departure: Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
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| Second Stop: Azores archipelago. |
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| Second Stop: Caribbean Islands |
Leaving Lisbon we would head to Azores, 9 portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We would do our first stop there, visit the islands, and get ready for the next sailing chunk, the longest without pulling over - 3-4 weeks.
Coming from Azores we will arrive in the Caribbean basin (left). There we will visit some of the islands while heading towards the Panama canal.
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| Antigua |
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| Barbados |
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| Dominican Republic |
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| Jamaica |
Once we cross the Panama canal we will go to the Galapagos Islands. From the Galapagos we will head to French Polynesia, and cross the Pacific Ocean towards Australia.
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| Panama Canal |
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| Galapagos |
We will yet stop at Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, New Caledonia cross the coral Sea and arrive at Queensland.
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| French Polynesia - Tahiti |
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| French Polynesia- Bora Bora |
By this time, we must have spent over 4 months of our time, crossed two entire oceans and visited some of the most stunning places on earth.
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| Australia - Queensland |
From Australia we haven't yet decided whether we head north towards the Philippines and visit Macau later or we go to Timor-Leste and Indonesia. Either way we will end up in Thailand. Later we will go to Singapore and leave towards the Sri Lanka.
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| Bali-Indonesia |
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| Philippines | | | | |
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| Thailand |
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| Singapore |
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| Sri Lanka | |
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From the Sri Lanka we will be going to Maldives, Seychelles and Mozambique where we plan to spend sometime looking around...
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| Maldives |
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| Seychelles |
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| Mozambique |
From Mozambique we go around Africa near South Africa coast, heading to the Brazillian Northwest - Recife, Natal, Fortaleza. We will leave brazil towards Fernando de Noronha Island and heading to Cape Verde. By then Our trip is nearly over and we must have spent about 9 months. We will need two or three weeks to arrive back in Portugal, still passing by Canaria archipelago.
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| Fernando Noronha |
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| Brasil |
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| Cape verde |
The return to Lisbon will be the end of the circumnavigation and the achievement of our dream. For now it is only a dream that we are making real. But I am very confident that this dream will become true indeed. I will keep you posted ;)
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