Sailing Solo on a Swan 40, Duarte Champalimaud

Duarte Champalimaud lives in Cascais Portugal and sails a 1972 Swan 40. He recently sailed solo for the first time across the Atlantic Ocean.
We talk about Portugal, learning to sail on small boats, sailing in the Mediterranean, his boat, fuel tanks, osmosis, refitting the boat, adding an inner forestay, adding running backstays, having a teak deck, fear, arriving in the Canary Islands, hitchhikers, feeling like you have to prove yourself, solo sailing and if it is running away from something or selfish, solitude, discovering new places, Kirsten Neuschafer's book "All Good, K," sailing from the Canary Islands to Martinique, bananas, sailing downwind, hitting 16 knots, the windvane autopilot, pursuing our dreams, spearfishing, preventers, and more.
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