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Andre M Homem de Mello returns to the reservoir club where he learned to sail as a child, tracing the origins of his ocean sailing career to childhood experiences there. At roughly eight to ten years old, he sailed a small dinghy across the reservoir, deliberately capsizing it to frighten friends before righting it — a game that planted the seed of solo sailing confidence.3:46 His father, whose nickname was Zé, owned a red motorboat named Dozé and also sailed on the ocean, though Homem de Mello was too young to join those passages; his father died twenty years ago, cutting off any exchange about those voyages.3:40 The club, unchanged in roughly fifty years and showing deferred maintenance, still holds the same winch used to launch boats down the ramp.6:38 A Zemar water-ski board dating to 1985 — a once-prominent Brazilian ski brand founded in 1927 — sits stored there, triggering memories of learning to water-ski.4:54 Standing at the reservoir, Homem de Mello identifies this place as the direct source of his ambition to sail offshore and eventually circumnavigate.6:39

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