4/1/08  12AM

We left Ilha Grande (or rather the mainland across from Ilha Grande) at 6:15 having had a Brazilian meal ashore and bidding farewell to Paulo who we were very lucky to meet. He has friends everywhere and totally enriched our experience of Rio and Ilha Grande.

No wind yet, what there is is much further offshore so we’re chugging along.  The cleaning of the bottom has recovered our hull speed and we’re motoring at over 8 knots.  We were down a least one knot.

12 Noon

Still no wind. Motoring all night.  Hot, sticky, cloudy, heat lightening last night.  I reorganized all the boat PC USB connections adding a powered hub to an underused USB port and now everything works, I had a 120Gig LaCie Portable device for transferring big files which worked on all the other computers on the boat but not the main PC.  It’s the sort of chore one does on days like this, for a Mac person it’s a real sense of triumph to force something to work on a PC when it plainly doesn’t want to.

14:00

Well that was a case of hubris.  The Belkin Hub has stopped functioning and the PC says the LaCie hard drive is working properly but refuses to display its Icon, so I can’t use it.  I’m bored with this game now.

On our way out last evening I thought I saw a submarine but it was just a rock. Yesterday afternoon, Paulo managed to find a boat with 10 ladies from Sao Paulo who invited us to a beer party last night but being stoics we left anyway.