Tomate - Equipa de Vela

AS HISTÓRIAS E AVENTURAS DA "EQUIPA DE VELA TOMATE" - O MAR - A VELA - OS BARCOS À VELA - A RIA FORMOSA E O MUNDO MARINHO...

sexta-feira, 28 de abril de 2017

Este senhor é que fazia uma decoração à maneira no casco do Tomate...

Grafitis na linha de agua !!

Este é muito provavelmente o melhor video de Vela que alguma vez vi !!

Já aqui passou em 2013...
Um pouco até na sequência do video anterior publico de novo esta maravilha !!
Hughes e Caroline realizaram durante a sua volta ao mundo à vela uma série de excelentes filmes que terão servido também para financiar a sua aventura...
Nestes oito minutos observamos como é possível pessoas "pobres" e com parcos recursos fazerem vela  e gozarem este desporto em barcos que por acaso são também o seu ganha pão...
A "coisa" torna-se até mais emocionante porque o sangue Luso corre nas veias destas gentes que falam português e utilizam aparelhos que nos dizem muito...
Vejam com atenção e se quiserem podem reflectir com base no ditado:
DEUS DÁ NOZES* A QUEM NÃO TEM DENTES !!!...

* Barcos, veleiros, velas, aparelhos topo de gama, mares, ventos, correntes, dias perfeitos, condições fantásticas, etc, etc...

quinta-feira, 27 de abril de 2017

Reparem nisto !! Amigosdavela: Canoas de Camocim

amigosdavela: Canoas de Camocim: Navegam que se fartam...e protagonizam um grande evento no Ceará no Brasil. Canoas tradicionais tripuladas por quem sabe e delas sempre f...





Em solitário é mais difícil, he, he ...

Com tripulação é outra "coisa" ;)

Algarvios marafades na 1ª PAN Snipe 2017 - Cascais





Antigua Yacht Classic Regata - 19 a 25 de Abril de 2017 - TOP FOTO !!!

Foto encontrada na Voiles et Voiliers:
Le trois-mâts Adix est un véritable géant des mers. Derrière ses lignes classiques, le 212 pieds conçu en 1984 par l’architecte Arthur Holgate n’a pourtant pas grand-chose à envier aux voiliers actuels en matière de performance, grâce notamment à l’installation de matériaux et d’une technologie dernier cri. Et il compte bien le prouver encore cette année durant la 30e édition de l’Antigua Yacht Classic Regatta qui se tient du 19 au 25 avril. Pour cet anniversaire, les cinquante embarcations était amarrées dans le site exceptionnel de Nelson’s Dockyard à English Harbour (Sud d’Antigua), récemment inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco. Ce rassemblement de dizaines de ketchs, yawls classiques, sloops, schooners, a encore bénéficié cette année de conditions remarquables (ciel dégagé avec un vent oscillant entre 15 et 20 nœuds) malgré une mer un peu difficile parfois. Bref, du grand spectacle sur l’eau ! L.C


terça-feira, 25 de abril de 2017

CLASSIFICAÇÃO REGATA DA LIBERDADE REALIZADA HOJE (25 DE ABRIL)

MAIS TARDE PUBLICAREI HISTÓRIA E FOTOS.
PARA JÁ FICAM AS CLASSIFICAÇÕES DA REGATA DE HOJE E TROFÉU RIA FORMOSA 2017 APÓS REALIZAÇÃO DE 2 REGATAS.


sábado, 22 de abril de 2017

JOTAS SETENTA NA BRINCADEIRA !!

A monotipia é sem dúvida a melhor maneira de fazer corridas de barcos com justiça !!
Nas corridas os barcos deviam ser todos RIGOROSAMENTE iguais...
Infelizmente isso é difícil de conseguir... 
Dentro das frotas de monotipos a força do dinheiro também impera...
Os cascos e aparelhos são todos "iguais" mas as velas sendo do mesmo tamanho, tem tempos de utilização, materiais de construção e níveis de desgaste completamente diferentes...
Enfim não se pode ser perfeito...
O conteúdo do video que vos apresento  é um espectáculo !!
Só um problema um J/70 novo equipado custa cerca de 60 mil euros...
   

O forte levante dos últimos dias (Algarve) fez estragos... (Fotos M. Belchior)

Centro Náutico Praia de Faro...


Quando o varandim se parte...


sexta-feira, 21 de abril de 2017

Não me lembro de ver um Levante assim...

Nos últimos dois dias o Sudeste tem literalmente "varrido" o Algarve...
Rajadas a bater nos 50 nós...
A bóia das Odas a registar 7 metros...
Céu cinzento...
Prevê-se que amanhã sábado comece a "aliviar"...
https://www.windytv.com/?37.019,-7.932,8

Ainda assim digo: Animem-se meus amigos... Terça, 25 de Abril há regata na Ria Formosa e todas as previsões apontam para um dia perfeito para velejar !!


TRAGÉDIA EM RIMINI - 4 MORTOS - 19 ABRIL 2017 - BAVARIA 50








Texto Sailing Anarchy
Some raw video of the aftermath of a particularly nasty wreck yesterday in Italy, where Bavaria 50 Dipiú got tossed on a rocky jetty after losing their engine on final approach to Rimini Harbour. 4 dead including the owner and his daughter, and a deeply sobering lesson that clearly must continue to be beaten into sailors’ stubborn skulls.  SA’er ‘dolphin60′ translates and paraphrases Italian news reports:
The yacht left Marina di Ravenna harbour in uncertain conditions.  The boat had completed some refitting  at a boatyard at the  marina  days before.  That same day the boatyard manager was supposed to ferry a sailboat somewhere along the coast, but he quickly changed his mind when the first gusts hit. He then called the skipper of the damaged boat, which had already set sail, to try and convince him to turn back.  He answered that he was experiencing rather rough conditions but he expected the wind to abate in the next three hours so he was comfortable to press on.
The skipper later contacted Rimini harbour, asking for a berth. He was relaxed and even joked with the harbourmaster, whom he had met before.  The harbourmaster assigned the sailboat a berth, and a man tasked with assisting the yacht in berthing followed its approach to the harbour entrance.  He said that the vessel was proceeding without apparent problems and was about to enter when the engine stopped working. The crew then tried to raise a sail but a very steep 5 meter wave picked the boat and smashed it against the break water.
The day of the accident a low pressure system was rapidly transiting over northern Italy. Strong northerly winds had been forecast. The yacht was heading south  in would have been a swift reach along the eastern coast of Italy, by all means a lee shore.  The “bora” northeasterly wind is well known and respected by all those who sail the Adriatic sea. It can set suddenly with gusts reaching F11 that create a very short and steep sea.
Later that evening two ferry boats from Greece heaved to outside Ancona harbour for two hours waiting for the conditions to improve.
The skipper was a 68 year old retired professional. At least one of the crew, a 64 year old who also perished, was experienced, having just completed a RTW cruise on another boat.  Of the two survivors, one, a 39 year old man, was found unscathed inside the boat,  the other, a 68 year old man, was picked from the water one hour later, hypotermic but is  now rapidly recovering in hospital.
And Mauro Melandri, Publisher of Zerogradinord, summarizes more reports (edited) with photos here.
The boat is a Bavaria 50 Cruiser, registered under Monfalcone (ITA) Port Authority, usually moored in Marina di Ravenna, named Dipiù.
Italian Coast Guard, the morning after the event, reports four victims: E.M. (69), who completed a circumnavigation some years ago,  A.F. (67), co-owner of the boat, his daughter A.F. (38), the first who fell overboard according with survivor description of the facts, and E.S. Two men – L.N. and C.C. – were recovered few moments after the event and lifted to the hospital in serious condition. C.C. is in recovery room.
Official investigation is underway, but it seems that the boat, with six crew members, most of them coming from Verona (Veneto, ITA), was sailing from Marina di Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna, ITA) to Trapani (Sicily, ITA) when, just after 40 nm, the crew opted to repair in Rimini harbour to the severe worsening of the weather conditions. According with media info, the engine went out of service and the crew had no time to set sails so the boat grounded hard on the main harbour jetty,  close to the famous Rock Island bar, losing the keel and after few minutes was capsized and dismasted by the imposing waves. From the picture where the boat has still the mast, it seems that the crew deployed the staysail as ultimate attempt to avoid the impact.
At the sunset, Coast Guard, Fire Department and all the other law enforcements, whose intervention activated by some observers was timely, were still looking for the survivors, using also two helicopters. They found the bodies of the victims early the morning after the event close to the destroyed hull of the boat.
Having come to know about the loss of the four crew members, Michele Capra, friend of the owner and Bavaria dealer in the harbor of Marina di Ravenna released a few declarations. He said he met the crew yesterday, since Dipiú was moored next to a boat that Capra had to move to a close shipyard, transfer that eventually he didn’t do because of the extremely adverse weather conditions. He said he advised the crew not to leave, being answered that weather forecasts were advers just for few hours, and the six left Marinara Harbor. When gusts became even stronger, Capra called A.F., owner of the boat, who said: “There are big waves and we are already a few miles away from Ravenna. Weather should be improving so we are going to go on”. “I should have done more to convince them – Capra regrets.
Cino Ricci, skipper of Azzurra, first Italian challenger to the America’s Cup and very experienced seaman, told Italian media that “A double mistake was made yesterday: First, you don’t leave harbor under those conditions and forecast.  The passage to Sicily was a long one; waiting a day to depart doesn’t make much of an impact.  Second, once you are out in a boat of that size, get offshore a few miles where the waves usually aren’t breaking.  Nothing will happen there.  Here the mistake was to choose the coastal route rather than staying offshore.  Then, the decision to seek refuge in Rimini signed the end of the journey – the entrance to the harbour in downwind conditions gets complicated.”

quinta-feira, 20 de abril de 2017

Já não nos ligam nenhuma...

Bonito video da Região de Turismo aqui dos Algarves...
Agora faço um critica: 
Digam lá que não ficava mais giro se pelo meio aparecesse um barquito à vela... 
Só um !!


Acabou-se a brincadeira !!

Portugal enviou um porta aviões para a Coreia do Norte.
O Sardinha assada vai a caminho com vista a apoiar os EUA.
Acredita-se que o efeito dissuasor deste vaso de guerra é tremendo...
Aliás o grande líder Kim Jong Un já afirmou que este tipo de armas violam claramente o direito internacional. 
Diz-se inclusivamente que os Norte Coreanos assim que souberam desta notícia cancelaram de imediato todo o seu programa nuclear, testes com mísseis, etc e tal...

domingo, 16 de abril de 2017

sábado, 15 de abril de 2017

EDP XII CAMPEONATO DE PORTUGAL DE JUVENIS - SESIMBRA 2017

MUITOS PARABÉNS ao velejador Farense Guilherme Cavaco que se sagrou hoje CAMPEÃO DE PORTUGAL DE OPTIMIST !!
O Guilherme "enfrentou" os 120 melhores velejadores nacionais nesta classe !!
Muitos parabéns também ao treinador Nuno Silva por este brilhantíssimo resultado !! 
Refiro que o Guilherme Cavaco é velejador do Ginásio Clube Naval de Faro que por por acaso é o mesmo clube que os Tomates representam há longos anos.
FANTÁSTICO !!!

 Classificações :



SEAir.... Mini 6,5 Voador !!

Monstros deste mundo !!

https://yachtharbour.com/news/royal-huisman-s-sailing-yacht-ngoni-emerges-from-shed-1603?source=retarget

quarta-feira, 12 de abril de 2017