Fernando de Noronha, 217nm off the coast of Brazil, is one of the most beautiful places we have stopped. The immigration police drove us to their office in two cars. One car had to remove fins & snorkeling gear from the backseat to accommodate us, the other was driven by a female police officer in leopard print pants, no uniforms-or seat belts.

We stocked up on groceries and wifi for 48 hours and drank caipirinha, a Brazilian drink served over ice with limes. In our daily swims we found at least a partial source of the water ingress; a screw was missing from the bottom of the metal plate on the starboard bow, which is often several feet underwater. A picture of the hole before replacing the screw is shown above. We thought that would take care of the leak, but only slowed it to needing once a day (manual) bilge pumping. Any leak is concerning 1,000nm from shore.