"Popa sueca..."

I do have a crush for peculiar boats. They seem to have more stories to tell than off the shelf plastic boxes - specially about the people who have built and own them. Be that good stories or not so good.

Suiá seems to be one of those peculiar boats with a story. Built out of wood on "Ilha da Conceição", it was used for dive fishing in the Arraial do Cabo region. Later it was transformed into a sailing vessel, and made its way to the Caribean and up to Florida, in the seventies. The boat is now beeing refitted by Sergio, who fittingly described the boat as being a "trainera de popa sueca e proa groenlandia". Now I can see why.

Above you can see the "popa sueca" - the round canoe stern.

Here is the boat lying on anchor in the Granadine Islands, in Caribean.