Now you can also participate in this ocean
crossing by supporting the message of the project and having your name written
on the deck as you contribute with cash, items or contacts of sponsors. Choose one of the possibilities:
1- with a minimum of 50 euros you’ll see your
name written on the Paraguaçú’s deck (you may sign it personally) and referred
to on the future book of the crossing: ‘Essay on Loneliness’.
2- with 100 euros or more, you will get a
short phone call from the middle of the ocean straight to your mobile, besides
having your name written on the boat and book.
3- you may also contribute specifically to/with some
of the following items still missing, and have your name written on the
boat’s deck.
Bank
transfers to BPI, IBAN: PT50 001000003760922000147,
Swift code: BBPIPTPL)
Subject/Reference: ‘Paraguaçú’+person’s name+item (in case the
contribution is made to buy a specific item). Please confirm with e-mail (zgiraldes@gmail.com), and refer your
mobile number for choice ‘2’.
25 boxes
Almond bars, 73€
25 boxes
Strawberry bars, 73€
1 life
rescue raft Cruiser 4p, 963€
1
Marine Tech invertor, 45€
1 radio
VHFICM33, 158€
1 radio
station, 200€
1 binoculars
7x50, 49€
200 dried
(lyophilized) food 1000€
67 packs
of 6 cereal bars, aprx. 67€
1 Jet
Boil pan 70€
1 500
min. credit card sat phone Iridium, 625€
1 battery sat phone Iridium, 115€
Pharmacy
items 75€
The Atlantic crossing – Paraguaçú’s route for the environment
The message
this project aims to transmit is one of alert to the consequences of the excess
of use of fossil energies and its reflexes on Climate Change; also to stimulate
a permanent search for eco efficiency, using alternative energies such as
solar, and the protection of the forests, in particular the Amazon forest.
“Paraguaçú”,
the name of the boat, meaning ‘immense sea’ (was also the name of the Tupinambá
indigenous girl… more on older posts), wants to
pay homage to the 15th century pioneer navigators, but also to
celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first South Atlantic aerial crossing,
accomplished in 1922 by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral, and also the grace
of the Brazilian people, our brothers, by sending them a warm salute. The route
(the same made by the aircraft ‘Santa Cruz’) will be done rowing solo, from
Marocco/Canary Islands/Cape Verde to Natal/Brazil, in an extension of more than
2700 nautical miles of open ocean. The expected duration is 110 days (starting
December 2012)…
Thank You!