Aleixo Belov around the world
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He landed back in Salvador on May 23, 1981 with relative fame and was received by a few dozen people. A short time after, Belov received from the Brazilian Navy the title of the “first Brazilian navigator to make a circumnavigation of the Earth alone.” Also in 81, he released his first of ten books: “A Volta ao Mundo em Solitário” ( Around the World Solo in free translation). Still that year, he founded the engineering company Belov Engenharia, one of our customers.Read in Portuguese →One of the notable players of Brazilian offshore is Aleixo (born Alexey) Belov, for his work as an engineer. However, his relationship with the oceans doesn’t end there: the Ukrainian settled in Brazil has traveled five times around the world in a sailing boat.
He arrived in Salvador, Brazil, at the age of six, in 1949. He and his parents left Ukraine due to the Second World War. It didn’t take long for him to be called Aleixo, an easier name to be pronounced in Brazil.
In conversation with WSB, he says that he fell in love with sailing at 16 years old, when he received diving mask from a friend as a gift. He started playing with the object and soon became interested in oceans. In 1965, he decided to travel around the world in a sailing boat for the first time.
It took Aleixo 15 years to execute the plan, leaving Salvador on March 16, 1980. Belov was motivated to travel alone to avoid intrigues aboard the boat Três Marias.
“My first trip around the world was the shortest, because I didn’t have a lot of money and I was also afraid the boat could run into problems. It lasted 14 months and I called at 16 ports: Natal (Brazil), Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti, Rorotonga, New Caledonia, Torres Strait, Bali, Cape Town, New Zealand, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Salvador,” Belov said.
This article was produced by Westhon Media for One Energy News.