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Forel Sailboat Series: Amyr Klink
31 July 2026 · 1h 3m · 114 views
What this video covers
Amyr Klink, the Brazilian sailor and explorer, describes the design, construction, and eventual sale of Paraty 2, an aluminum sailboat he built with Thierry Stump at a shipyard in Itapevi, Brazil.2:04 The hull was designed for form stability rather than ballast, carrying no lead keel — a deliberate choice that allowed intentional grounding in polar shallows and eliminated the galvanic conflict between lead and aluminum.10:38 Two self-supporting AeroRig masts, designed by Damon Roberts, replaced conventional stayed rigs; Klink had already proven the system on a solo Antarctic circumnavigation aboard his first boat before fitting it to Paraty 2.17:25 Construction involved blasting hundreds of large boulders from the Itapevi site, transporting the hull to Santos to cut the centerboard slot in a parking lot, and recovering the masts from a bankrupt Spanish yard in the Balearic Islands through a confrontation Klink describes in detail.33:43 The first voyage took the boat from Ushuaia through Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falklands, departing Antarctica in April — a month Klink calls unnavigable in ice and near-total darkness.47:33 Klink sold Paraty 2 to the Swiss Fondation Polar Suisse, which renamed it Forel; now in its third polar research season, it was selected from ten candidate vessels worldwide as the top platform for Arctic and Antarctic scientific work.15:13
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