Brazil Charter Itinerary

Brazil Itinerary

Brazil Yacht Charter
The Costa Verde runs between Rio and São Paulo, and it is the best cruising ground in Brazil by a distance ’ three hundred and sixty-five islands in the bay at Angra dos Reis alone, with Atlantic rainforest running to the waterline behind them.





That forest is the rarest part. The Mata Atlântica once covered the whole coast and is now down to a fraction of it, most of it here. Ilha Grande was a prison island and then a leper colony, which kept the developers away for a century and left it green.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Costa Verde; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Angra dos Reis & Abraão

Board near Angra and cross to Ilha Grande. Abraão is the island’s only village, with no cars and forest at the end of every street. Walk to a waterfall, eat feijoada ’ black beans, pork, orange ’ and take dinner on deck with the island dark and loud behind you.
Day 2

Paraty

Cruise west along the coast, stopping at Saco do Céu, a bay so enclosed and still that it mirrors the sky. Paraty is colonial, cobbled and deliberately awkward underfoot ’ the streets flood at spring tide, which the builders intended, to wash them. Waterfalls and cachaca distilleries inland.
Day 3

Saco do Mamanguá

The only tropical fjord in Brazil: a narrow inlet eight kilometres deep, mountains on both sides, mangrove at the head. Visit a Caiçara village ’ descendants of Portuguese, Indigenous and African people who have fished this coast for centuries. Anchor off Ilha da Cotia and swim.
Day 4

Ilha de Paquetá

A car-free island in Guanabara Bay where horse-drawn carriages still do the work. Colonial buildings, a slow market, and a restaurant of some renown. It is a curiosity rather than a highlight, and pleasant precisely for that. Sunset on deck with Rio’s mountains on the horizon.
Day 5

Araçatiba

Back toward Ilha Grande through the islands of Baía da Ribeira, anchoring where the water invites it. Jet skis, snorkelling, hidden coves. After dark, the water at Araçatiba is bioluminescent: swim, and every movement lights up around you. It is the sort of thing nobody quite believes until it happens.
Day 6

Aventureiro & Palmas

The wild side of Ilha Grande, exposed to the open Atlantic. Aventureiro has granite boulders forming natural pools and a bent palm that appears on every postcard of the island. At Parnaioca a freshwater river runs into the sea across the sand. Anchor at Palmas for the last night, in forest silence.
Day 7

Return to Angra

Sail back across the bay, weaving the islands, and disembark at Angra for Rio. Give the city an afternoon if you can ’ Christ the Redeemer, or better, the botanical garden and a bar in Santa Teresa. Brazil rarely gets counted among the great charter coasts. It should be.

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