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Mariska, the ship's cat aboard Adriano Plotzky's sailboat in Salvador's Baía de Todos os Santos, began escaping the boat during a refit and was found on neighboring vessels some distance away.11:19 Adriano had fitted her with an AirTag on her collar after three months of unexpectedly calm behavior during the refit — she had never left the boat — but once she started roaming, the tracker revealed she had wandered far across the marina.10:36 She had fallen overboard more than ten times previously and always returned via two lines left hanging from the stern, which Adriano had trained her to use.9:50 During one of her unsanctioned excursions she returned lethargic with small, round wounds; a vet called aboard diagnosed back pain and determined she had likely made the wounds herself.28:06 The vet also flagged that she had become overweight and needed a diet change.28:54 Adriano reflects on the tension between confining a cat to a liveaboard sailboat and allowing her freedom, drawing a parallel to broader questions about belonging, departure, and responsibility. He also discusses financial planning for a major refit — saving and investing in advance so that interest income offset part of the costs and avoided the stress of taking a loan.12:33

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