We are still thinking and dreaming and changing our minds every single day…

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We are Duca and Roberta, a Brazilian couple trying to find our own path through life. During a sabbatical trip (in the year of 2016) around Australia, Indonesia, Thailand and New Zealand we decided that it was about time to start following our dream, it was time to put our hearts full time on our dream project.

 

Well, in our humble opinion life is way too complex to be described in one sentence, or in only one project.

With this clear in our minds, we decided to create what we called "the mother project", that is the connection to many other projects, and we called it "Odd Life Crafting".

 

Odd Life Crafting is the connection between all our passions and dreams. It's a life long project composed by many smaller projects that we call seasons.

Season one was all about the creation of Odd Life Crafting

Watch season ONE

Season two, or "Living Tiny Project" was a weekly YouTube series about our journey building ourselves, without any prior experience, our own Tiny Shipping Container House

Watch season TWO

 
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Season three was for sure the most challenging one so far. After buying a 44ft steel sailboat that was neglected for over 22 years, we moved 700km away from our hometown with the mission of bringing this boat back to life and to transform her into our floating home that can take us to explore anywhere in the world.

Watch season THREE

After a two years sailboat refit, we are one more time about to step outside of our comfort zone.

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On season four we will finally untie the lines and start exploring the Brazilian coast

Watch season FOUR

Meet Odd

She is a Dinieper Tropic 1200. Designed by Michel Joubert and Bernard Nivelt. (Meta Boat Yard - France) and built in 1991 in Brazil by Dinieper Boat Yard.

Length: 13.50 meters (44ft)
Beam: 4 meters
Draft: varies from 1 meter to 2.70 meters
Displacement: 14 tons

Material: Galvanized Steel
Construction: Multichine/Strongall (no stringers)

Sail plan: Solent Rig

Full Batten 3 reefs main sail: 38.09 square meters (410.04 sft)

Furling Yankee (140%): 48.85 square meters (525.87 sft)

Furling Inner Jib (105%): 29.26 square meters (314.98 sft)

Engine: Yanmar 54hp 4 cylinders (4JH5E)

Diesel capacity: around 635 liters
Water capacity: around 700 liters

Follow our journey.

 
First sea trial with our brand new engine! What a great day! After all the moths we spent focusing on our brand new engine and on our engine room it was time to test all the systems. Primeiro teste no mar com nosso novo motor! Que dia maravilhoso!
We made it!!! We are in the water again and the plans are going accordingly to plan until now! Great news soon! This Monday’s video is gonna be about our engine. We are anxious to share it with you. Link in Bio! ____ Conseguimos!!! Estamos na
Last week’s video was dedicated mainly for the long process that was painting the hull of the boat to be able to splash Odd on Monday! We are so proud to announce that we did it! Tomorrow’s video is gonna be about this special moment. Fin
Today is really important day: we are completing 2 years refitting our dream sailboat! Who would imagine how much our lives would changed. This time is coming to an end. I mean a new chapter is about to start (we will splash our boat in three days).
These past weeks have been soo hectic! We are sooo close to finally set sails that we have been crazy busy. Last week we showed on our YouTube channel the amazing work people do at Reginaldo’s shop. They built our helm panel using fiberglass on
We are moving on other things we need to do before we set sails. This week we continue to build a panel for our nav table. We uses a different finishing this time. We are so happy with the result. - Estamos avançando em outras coisas que pre
After 3 mock-ups it seems like we have a winner. Based on this mock-up we started building a brand new panel for our electronics. We can’t wait to finish this project and be able to use all these equipments. Link in Bio! Depois de 3 maquetes,
We did a brand new 12volts panel for Odd! In the beginning of Odd’s refit we didn’t know how to do many things related to electricity. Look at us now! After 2 years of refit and some knowledge we gain learning with our friend @crazylittle
Patience is the key factor on anything. Each day we are surprised at how much we can learn if we are willing and have patience. We are very proud of the work we did by ourselves on our new electrical panel. Link in Bio Paciência é um fa
This week we did a lot of little tasks and one of them was a milestone for us. Link for the video in Bio! Esta semana fizemos diversas tarefas diferentes e uma delas foi um marco para nós. Vídeo com legendas em português na Bio!