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A 50-mile coastal passage from an unnamed departure point to Ilha Bela, near São Sebastião on Brazil's coast, unfolds in near-calm conditions — 5 knots true wind — after an earlier 16–22 knot stretch covered the first half.▶ 0:11 Ben and MP troll lures with no success and motor the final 30 miles at 3.3 knots through the channel between Ilha Bela and the São Sebastião mainland.▶ 11:53 Mid-passage, they spot a whale — their first from Yabá — which MP identifies as out of season: humpbacks normally migrate to Antarctica in summer and return to this region in winter to breed.▶ 8:13 The sighting is bittersweet; she suspects the animal is lost.▶ 9:13 At anchor in Ilha Bela, 30°C in the shade, Ben prepares to begin an IYT Master of Yacht course at a local facility.▶ 13:49 A spontaneous side trip to a nearby island produces a snorkel session with an unusually friendly sea turtle.▶ 17:20 The crew also notes a design flaw in Yabá's anchor chain locker — the angle causes chain to pile up during retrieval, requiring a second person to reorganise it manually — and flags it as a planned modification.▶ 1:35

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