All the Way Around
Forgetting the never ending stream of ever increasing bills and changing the routine is the dream of the vast majority of urban workers of the great metropolis around the globe. But to achieve this dream you need a lot of courage and fear controls de exodus.
Captain Bogart, former CEO of a .com of the early 90´s, he let himself be guided by his convictions and followed his true North departing thus for a new dimension.
In the beginning, the monotony overwhelmed him and little by little the calm reprogrammed his metabolism and ended adapting to diverse necessities and the lack of control over his time.
“Life in the sea makes us understand that we can desire, make calculus, plan with total precision, act in the most professional manner, do everything within our power for something to go right, but if the climatic factor does not cooperate then everything may be ruined… The best is when someone finds the harmony between what one wants and can do. That is maturation and is peace.” Captain Bogart
When he left his business in California, Mr. Bogart, after selling all his belongings and properties, gathered all his resources and purchased a motor-sailboat. After traveling many exotic itineraries, rugged, virgin landscapes he found a way to subsist in the small paradise he found ideal to raise his children. Today the Italo-Argentinian spends his days organizing regattas, teaching children the art of sailing, transporting sailboats for cash-rich, time-poor businessmen, taking foreigners to scuba dive in isolated islands and doing adventure trips for nature starved tourists.
He says that he does not repent of his decision 10 years ago to follow his dreams, but advises potential beginners not to risk everything on an all or nothing strategy as already the local tourism micro-markets are showing signs of saturation and surviving off tourism is not an easy task.
“The hard part is the sensation that there is no way back. That is the exhilarating and the scary part at the same time.” Captain Bogart
Now in Brazil, Captain Bogart and his family, confronts a profitable and busy summer coming back from Islã del Farol, em Arrail do Cabo, state of Rio de Janeiro coming back to the village of Armação dos Búzios with 5 australian divers. While he anchors, his wife lowers the sails.
Exhausted and totally sun-tanned, Raymond Collin, gets in the inflatable boat from stern which will take him back to land. Securing a rope to a starboard´s shroud, Maurice de Vega, waits next to a group of newcomers to board the Tucanú, that is the name of the vessel of the former office man which has a colorful and exotic bird mascot. At 7:30 pm, with the sun hiding in the horizon, another three portuguese begin their moonlight fishing adventure.
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