Actual status / Nuevo correo

New e-mail contact (nuevo correo): zgiraldes@gmail.com 

- Event: ocean crossing to Brazil, solo on a row boat

- Actual status: preparing for departure

- Departure day/spot: due to logistics and finantial difficulties the Paraguaçú's departure will be postponed to the beginning of 2013

- Route: Cabo Bojador - Canaries - Cape Verde - F. Noronha Is. - Natal, Brazil

- Pictures: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.136523499788650.29430.135954383178895&type=3

- Message: sustainability & conservation; Amazon protection.
Fighting for energy efficiency in 3 ways: rationalize energetic resources; protect the environment; save the forests.

- Action: crossing 5.000 km on the Atlantic, paying homage to the spirit of the pioneer navigators and celebrating to 90th anniversary of the first south Atlantic air crossing by Coutinho and Cabral
(see beginning http://paraguacu2012.blogspot.pt/2011_12_01_archive.html)

- Private support/sponsorship: welcomed (directly, or via PPL crowd funding until 15th January http://ppl.com.pt/pt/prj/paraguacu)

- Main sponsor: wanted!

- Secondary sponsor: needed!

- Media partner: searched for!

- Institutional supporters: CNL, Marina de Lagos, Atelier Gráfico (Queijas), Nautel, Nivalis, Weider/Victory Endurance
(see http://paraguacu2012.blogspot.pt/2012_01_01_archive.html)

- Private supporters: A. Costa Motta, Amadeu Garcia, Mestre Fernando, João Tavares, Teresa Tavares, Layse Oliveira, João Correia, Helena e Carlos Viegas, J. Soutelinho, Paulo César Santos, Inês Tavares, João Pedro Tavares, Teresinha T. Carvalho

- School presentations: Escola Secundaria Gil Eanes de Lagos; Colégio Primário Nuestra Sra. de la Antigua de Monteagudo, Murcia;

- Last presentations: 17th November 2012, CNL (Lisbon); 8th November 2012, ESHTE (Estoril)

We are not alone!

“Solo but not alone”, someone wrote to me as he sent a 50 euros contribution to the crossing project! At PPL crowd funding – see http://ppl.com.pt/pt/prj/paraguacu -, from the 15Oct to the 15Jan you may send in your support. The interesting part is that you will get some ‘rewards’:

5 €	Colocação de foto de agradecimento no facebook  (photo plus thanks on facebook)
12 €	Foto exclusiva no alto mar (com dedicatória) ou PDF do último livro do autor: 'Os novos exploradores lusos e a aventura dos sentidos' (exclusiv photo from the ocean or PDF of the last book of the author)
20 €	Referência do nome no livro 'Ensaio sobre a Solidão (a publicar), dedicatória no livro e 20% desconto (reference on the book of the crossing, still to publish, and 20% off on a signed copy of this book)
50 €	Registo do nome no barco Paraguaçú, agradecimento no livro 'Ensaio sobre a solidão' e oferta do mesmo com dedicatória (your name written on the boat plus reference on the book and offer of a signed copy)
100 €	Registo do nome do apoiante no barco Paraguaçú, agradecimento no livro 'Ensaio sobre a solidão' e oferta do mesmo com dedicatória, e telefonema para um telemóvel desde o oceano (your name written on the boat plus reference on the book and offer of a signed copy, plus a phone call straight from the ocean)

Paraguaçú is now on dried dock, in Lagos. Meanwhile, we got an MP3, a portable PC, a radio station and some more financial support. Also, the TV coverage in F. Noronha and Natal is assured. All this, thanks to João Correia, Paulo César Santos, J. Carlos Viegas, J. Soutelinho, and Layse Oliveira! We are not alone!

 

 

Photos: first 2 by J. Correia

Paraguaçú es ‘Ensayo sobre la Soledad’…

'The trip of my life' is also part of the title of the book 'Essay on loneliness'... It doesn't show the image of my life as a voyage, but the image of this specific trip that could leave a mark on my life...

We are preparing to present this project in several schools willing to sponsor the crossing. Among them, the Gil Eanes School from Lagos and Nuestra Sra. de la Antigua de Monteagudo College, from Murcia, Spain.

«‘El viaje de mi vida’, el subtítulo del libro del proyecto, no significa una imagen de mi vida como un viaje, pero si la imagen de este viaje en concreto, que podrá ‘marcar’ mi vida. Todas las vidas merecen un gran viaje, de algún tipo, que las rellene y haga desbordar… Sea en el sentido de la búsqueda de aquellos breves momentos de felicidad “que justifican una vida” o, como para los musulmanes, en el sentido del deber de efectuar al menos un viaje de peregrinación a Meca…» (trecho del libro).

Fotos de Paraguaçú en facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.136523499788650.29430.135954383178895&type=3 

Quiero transmitir las gracias por los apoyos recibidos en las últimas semanas, de diversas personas y en distintas formas: de las simpáticas palabras y consejos de Helena y José Carlos Viegas, al poema de Maria Dolores Saez.

Sigue, sigue adelante y no regreses,
Fiel hasta el fin del camino y tu vida,
No eches de menos un destino más fácil,
Tus pies sobre la tierra antes no hollada,
Tus ojos frente a lo antes nunca visto.
(Luis Cernuda)

A propósito, organizaremos la presentación del proyecto en distintas escuelas interesadas en apoyar el cruce del Atlántico: de la Escola Secundária Gil Eanes, de Lagos, al Colegio Primario Nuestra Sra. de la Antigua de Monteagudo, de Murcia.