Blogger: Abrão Laranjeira
Location: Itajai, Brazil
Olá! I am Abrão Laranjeira, feeling a little bit more comfortable to blog this time, once we are in Itajaí, Brazil. The city is located in Santa Catarina State on South of Brazil and has less than 200.000 habitants but with beautiful beaches and one of the most important ports of south region in Brazil and among other things, fishing is still source of wealth.
The port area in Itajai
The boat arrivals are in the Itajaí River that joins the sea exactly in the finish line of this stopover. The race also helps to emphasize an important local environmental project called “Juntos pelo Rio Itajaí” (“Together by the Itajaí River”) that focuses in keeping the rivers clean and recycling materials. The project is very similar to the “Keep the Oceans Clean” Volvo Ocean Race project.
Rescued Flip-flops sculpture
The first boats have arrived, Puma first and Telefonica approximately 14 minutes later. After the two boats started sailing in the Brazilian sea, the crews kept “line of site” of each other (…like our mini-links!) The arrival in Brazil indeed has been more exciting than it always is (according to race crew).
Puma's arrival in Itajai
The crews have had a warm welcome from the “Brasileiros” and the local organization says that more than 30.000 people have been in the race village to welcome the crews of one of the most important races in the world.
João “Joca” Signorini – The Brazilian sailor of Team Telefonica
The public could follow the boats all the time on the big screen in the Volvo Pavilion. The information from the Race Tracker coming from the boats is been sent via the Volvo IT network that uses micro-wave technology (Mini-Link) where we can have 1Gbps. The IT infrastructure has been fully used!
Até breve,
Abrão
Hey Abrão,
I can fell your enthusiasm as staff of this global event. We are going to share that happiness together this weekend. Me, Samoel, Diogo, Eduardo and Valdecir are leaving Curitiba on Saturday at 2pm to Itajai. Hope you have a free time so we can talk and have a good time.
Abraço
Hey João,
Thank you very much for your comments and all of you are welcome to the race village.
Cheers,
///Abrão
Hey Abrão,
I’ve been reading a lot of information about VOR lately and I could see that this is a really exciting competition and that you and everybody from VIT involved in this project are doing a very good job.
Congrats buddy!!
Hey Samoel,
Thank you bud, I hope to see you soon in the village!!!
Cheers,
///Abrão
Hello Abrão,
I feel myself proud when I see a friend which works on the same organization as me doing a great and fantastic job as you are doing.
I hope to see you on 21st Abril in Itajai to drink some beers and for sure listen from you some histories about Volvo Ocean Race.
See you soon!
//Thiago Carvalho
Hey Carioca,
Yes, I´ll be here and we always have some good histories to share
with our colleagues.
It´s very kind from you, thank you!!!
Cheers
///Abrão
I am very happy seeing you supporting this important event with a great success. Congratulations…
Hello Cristovam,
I am very happy as well, thank you. It´s been very good that Volvo IT is the oficial supplier of IT to the race. Let´s make sure!
Cheers ///Abrão
Hey teacher!
First, congratulations for the great job you have been doing in this global event! I know it for sure that it is not an easy thing to handle!
It is good to hear your news about volvo ocean race, there is always something cool to read.
Keep doing a great job!
Cheers!
Hey Alex,
Thanks for the good words. The race infrastructure is always a challenge, and this keep the team motivated all the time.
Cheers ///Abrão