Tuesday – 21/4

Paulinho Bornhausen (L), excited about the Volvo Ocean Race, alongside councilor Ed Pereira and a friend, and his faithful squire Juarez Silveira. (Photo: Ricardinho/Disclosure)

 

Lonely sailor Amir Klink, very friendly, allowed himself to be photographed alongside this columnist, Carin Machado and her friend Gina Orofino, widow of the founder of the Kalmar shipyard. (Photo: Mena Wendausen/Disclosure)

 

River and sea tourism

Whenever we travel, our mind is led to make comparisons of the cities visited with the one we were born and live in. This is the case of Itajaí, which provided more than 300 visitors to its waterfront, in its hotels, in its marinas, in its shipyards, on its beaches and in its bars and restaurants with the Volvo Ocean Race worldwide regatta. As if taking advantage of the Itajaí-Açu river delta and its international marina under construction were not enough, the publicity that won the world over from its port city was worth the investment criticized by the “contra”. Meanwhile, the Capital Island, surrounded by water on all sides, remains dry. In fact, we don't even have a dry port and receiving tourists from the seas is impossible.

 

remembering

Floripa has just rejected a project that could be the sea tourist portal at Ponta do Coral. I mean: Florida, no! But half a dozen haolis associated with some magistrates (or would it be a magistrate?) who do not see an island at their feet with all the predicates to generate income and employment with tourism.

 

there

If the result of more than 300 thousand visitors only at the Events Center where the Volvo Ocean Race regatta village was built is celebrated by the organizers, imagine what will come with the millions of hits on social networks in addition to the affection of the crews of the six boats that are traveling around the world taking images of the city and people of Itajaí? A regatta that was despised by the Capital.

 

Events Center I

I have always criticized the CentroSul architectural project. If we can say that architecture is an event center on a Capital Island that despised the sea. A box without a view or windows to the waters of our bays. Do you doubt what I'm talking about? Visit the Itajaí Events Center... it looks like a cruise ship.

 

Event Center II

From the outside you can see the inside and from the inside you can see the city and the river. It has decks facing the Itajaí River with restaurants and a front that resembles the command room of cruise ships. And just to make the island more envious, the Viseu business group, from Joinville, builds a marina for more than a thousand moored vessels and another thousand in the dry. It's bad, huh!?

 

for those against

For each vessel, the nautical segment analysts calculate 3,5 jobs generated. You can get what we're missing, don't Analucia!?

 

micro shipyards

Former secretary of sustainable development, Paulinjo Bornhausen, walked around the stands at the Volvo Ocean Race nautical fair alongside his faithful squire Juarez Silveira. He showed concrete data supported by the secretariat that commanded in terms of micro-enterprises that develop nautical projects. Small shipyards earned more than 3,5 million.

 

Itajai forever

Backstage talk among authorities at the Itajaí Events Center was that Rio de Janeiro was demanding with all its political force the transfer of the Volvo Ocean Race regatta to the carioca waterfront. It is no longer new, reassured Paulinho Bornhausen, who said he was assured by Volvo's CEO that Itajaí remains the “stopower” city of this world race.

 

By the way

In Rio de Janeiro, the Volvo Ocean Race would be just another nautical event, revealed one of the organizers of the world regatta. Unlike Itajaí, which for the captains of the vessels is the most affectionate city with its crews and with a receptive that does not exist in any other “stopower” on the planet.