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Sergio, a French sailor who grew up partly in Brazil, completed a solo circumnavigation aboard a self-built 12-foot sailboat — a vessel he designed and constructed himself when he lacked the funds for anything larger.0:16 He argues that 12 feet is the practical minimum for a world voyage: enough space for clothing, food, and water, and, critically, a hull that can make progress to windward.0:16 He dismisses the common Brazilian sailing-community claim that 40 feet is the minimum, calling it a measure calibrated to bank-account size rather than seamanship.1:03 The boat, named Croc, was engineered so that all sail controls — sheets led through deck spools with an interior crank handle — could be operated from inside the cabin, keeping the solo sailor dry in bad weather and reducing hypothermia risk.5:21 The berth measured 90 cm by 1.8 m. Sergio acknowledges that collision avoidance while sleeping alone was a matter of luck.7:30 His partner Robin, a California sailor with a Portuguese scholarship background, found him through a magazine article after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.2:04 Small hull size correlates with structural strength: Sergio compares a 12-foot boat to a tin can that cannot be crushed, while a large ship can be broken by heavy weather.6:44

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