The story of the sailboat SAMARON is a journey of resurgence. Originally known as Mest, this boat is a design by Argentinean German Freers, a 40-foot model more widely recognized in Brazil as the FAST 395. It remained neglected and abandoned in the club's waters for 18 long years.

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The previous owner intended to restore it for use again, but never managed to do so. I started taking care of it to keep it from sinking and on March 16, 2018, I finally became its new owner. Over the next three months, I undertook an arduous cleaning task, removing the entire interior of the boat, leaving only the hull. The name of the boat came from a promise to Saint Maron, giving the boat the name SV SAMARON.

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When designing the boat, my vision was to transform it into a vessel aimed exclusively at nautical tourism, and that is why we focused our efforts on the exterior and thus increased the passenger capacity from 6 to 22 people. Our designer Muriel Dias modified the stern of the boat to include a ladder for swimmers, the cockpit was expanded to include a service table, and I can confirm that only much larger vessels offer an external space similar to that of the SAMARON.

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The work began in July and a year later, in July 2019, we were ready to raise the mast and complete the details. We started operating the boat in August 2019 after a beautiful inauguration with a buffet from Luderitz Gourmet. Since then, SAMARON has become a completely renovated vessel and is ready to offer memorable sailing and tourism experiences in Guanabara Bay.