Who we are
My name is Carlos Azevedo. I am 51 years old and disabled after a catastrophic hemorrhagic stroke in 2019. I was a professional art photographer and an adventure rider who traveled around the world on my motorcycle.
The first thing I remember after brain surgery and five weeks in a coma was saying to the nurse that I was grateful. If I were gone, it would be ok: I had no pain; I had loved and been loved; I had a successful career; visited more that 100 countries on my round the world travels. Yes, I had had a wonderful life, amidst a family full of love, and surrounded by great friends.
But I stayed on this side, and therefore I had the opportunity for a life v2.0. And I decided that I was going to make the most of it.
So, as part of my recovery, I started building a new project which I called Tāmata, meaning “let´s try” in the indigenous Polynesian language of the Māori sea people. I already traveled to the end of the world on motorcycles in my life v1.0. Now it’s time to travel beyond the end of the world following the inspiration of two of my heroes: Bernard Moitissier and my fellow countryman Fernão de Magalhães.
Belle is my boat and my home, a beautiful Moody 41 Classic. Together we will try to sail around the world.
Welcome to Project Tamata, come along and follow the crew in this journey. We will make detailed reports of all our progress in our Tāmata Chronicles, from technicaladaptations to sea passage reports. For an upcoming documentary, all aspects of the project will be filmed and photographed extensively. You can come with us and hopefully be inspired by this project.
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Life 2.0 Sail to restoration
Finding our motivation usually starts by knowing what we really love, what brings us joy, being open to change, and taking consistant action. For me, ocean and traveling were always two big passions, so finding my drive was quite obvious. For others, it might be traveling by train, gardening, anything... really, anything you love to do is the right choice to get your motivation from. The most important thing is to keep going, keep moving, keep dreaming, everything we do can be a way to help us heal and recover ourselves. for me my it’s time for Project Tāmata, I’m going to restore myself while doing what a love, sail the world and hopefully inspire others to restore themselves in their own way.
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Make It Easy On Yourself
It does not matter if you are disabled like me or just not in the best shape. Preparing our boat to ease our life it’s always welcome. After a stroke, In occupational therapy we learn to adjust our tasks, use adaptive equipment and adjust the physical environment to make it easier for us. I incorporated this learnings into my boat to enable me to sail Belle more easily and safely, even when sailing single-handed. , I share here some of my expirence with smart bits of gear that make our life at sea safer, easier and more confortable.It does not matter if you are disabled like me or just not in the best shape. Picking the right gear to help us out with our shortcomings and make things easier really changes things a lot. I hope you find these useful
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Tamata Chronicles
Chronicles from our Journey, the things we've gone through, the wins we've had, and the setbacks we've faced.
Depending on internet avaiability we will post short videos and photos of our journey and hopefully share our live position with PredictWind Tracker
I'm hoping this encourages people to go after what makes them happy and find their joy again, especially when life throws a big curveball.