O que a frota viu
O Formosa 34, como a frota o viu
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The Formosa 34 is a masthead sloop, built by Formosa Boat Building Co. Ltd. from 1975 to the present, with a fin keel and rudder on skeg. It measures 10.4 meters LOA, 3.6 meters beam, and 1.7 meters draft, displacing 6168 kg. Aboard DrakeParagon, a 1982 prototype Formosa 34, a family of six undertook a 14-day passage from Newfoundland to Iceland, encountering 20-to-30-knot headwinds that necessitated two or three reefs in the main and a storm jib.5:07 The crew noted the boat's light, fast hull design created a rough, slamming motion in heavy seas.7:51 This boat, salvaged after a hurricane, required a six-month refit, including replacing 23 square feet of deck core.0:36 The family operates the boat without an engine, planning carefully around tidal currents for port entries. A Formosa ketch, built in Singapore in the 1960s, serves as a full-time residence in Vitória, Brazil, for an oceanographer who maintains it at a local fishing colony.8:57
