PAGE 12 • SPRING 2007 THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SAILING ASSOCIATION
SAILING DESTINATION
Rediscovering Brazil • By Roque dos R
Brazil’s beautiful anchorages are within easy sailing distance of
civilization, but still allow the visitor to feel the joy of a solitary beach.
(Below) Primitive boats can be found near modern cities.
Photos courtesy of Helio Magalhães
B
razil is a huge and sprawling
country with a coastline some
five-thousand-miles long. In
area, it is ten percent bigger than the
continental United States. Yet, Brazil
has only about half the population. It is
an uncluttered giant ready to be
discovered.
Just to give you an idea of this
country’s enormity, take Angra dos Reis
Bay, just South of Rio de Janeiro:
within a 15-mile radius, there are over
365 beaches and coves. That means if
you decided to visit only one beach per
day, it would take a whole year to get
to know this region, a very tiny part of
the Brazilian Coast.
As a native Californian, Shawn Blore,
writes in his Frommer´s Brazil Guide:
“Brazil as a nation is unusually
blessed. Rain forests and wetlands
team with exotic critters …
Restaurants match the snobbiest
standards, with regional cuisines that
have yet to be discovered in culinary
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