We are not alone off the north coast of Brazil. The geography of Brazil’s bulge to the east creates a natural choke point for ocean traffic, and it’s been rare that we have not had 3 or 4 large freighters in sight over the past couple of days.
The large ships are headed to all corners of the globe. We saw destinations in the US, in Argentina, Brazil, and even Chile in South America, in the Caribbean, and in Africa as well as SE Asia.
We spoke with three of them to make arrangements for passing with reasonable clearance between our vessels. Everyone was very professional, and two of the ships had already seen and identified us.
A list of passing freighters from today:
BBC Missouri
RCC Amsterdam
Ore Fuzhou
Pacific Achievement
Gaschem Caribe
Sea Tubarao
Bomar Resolve
IVS Pinehurst
Edward Ohlendorff
Maestro Diamond
Pan Epic
Grand
S Cape (proving that even freighters are not immune to the plague of terrible boat name puns) Salt Lake
Great Progress
Pacific Merit
STI Gratitude
Haizhou Prosperity
Ore Hong Kong
Aura
Gant Flair
And the winner for best freighter name of the day
Granma Lila
All’s well onboard.
Day Twenty-seven
199nm
00 46.9S 41 26.1W
