Manoel Morgado: emotions of life on board

Name: Manoel Morgado: emotions of life on board
Uploaded: 2023-09-17T10:30:20.000Z
Duration: 1 h 8 min 57 s
Description: Manoel Morgado crossed the Pacific to the Marquesas on a Lagoon 38 after learning to sail near Martinique with instructor Curtis.

17. september 2023 · 1t 8m · 415 visninger

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Manoel Morgado, a Brazilian pediatrician-turned-mountain-guide who became the eighth Brazilian to summit Everest and the first to complete the Great Himalayan Trail, spent six years living aboard a Lagoon 38 catamaran named Good Karma after leaving medicine in 1989.8:07 He bought the boat with no sailing knowledge, hiring American Sailing Association instructor Curtis for two consecutive 20-day live-aboard training sessions — first near Guatemala and Belize on a monohull, then near Martinique before a Caribbean and Pacific circuit on the Lagoon 38.19:59 The Pacific crossing took 22 days to reach the Marquesas, which he describes as the high point of his sailing life.25:17 In the Tuamotus, he dove at night alongside manta rays.32:55 The most frightening moment of his life came not at sea but arriving from Cuba to Florida, where authorities — tracking two aircraft that had been following his boat — suspected him of drug smuggling, held him for three hours, dismantled the boat, and released him only after finding nothing.36:01 He draws direct parallels between mountaineering and sailing: rope-work from climbing transferred easily to sailing knots, and both worlds attract unusually genuine people.9:56 He sold the boat when his partner Vanessa, after eight months aboard, quietly confirmed she was ready to stop — a decision he describes as following the same instinct that led him to leave medicine.1:01:44