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Yachthouse Residence Club is a complex of twin skyscrapers in the coastal city of Balneário Camboriú , Santa Catarina , southern Brazil. At 281 metres (922 feet) and 81 floors, the two buildings are the second tallest in Brazil and the third-tallest in South America (third only to Gran Torre Santiago in Chile and One Tower in Brazil) since they topped out in 2020, surpassing Infinity Coast , located in the same city. [1] However, construction continued until 2023. [2]

Construction [ edit ]

The building's construction involved about 600 workers and 87,000 square metres (940,000 sq ft) of concrete. The outrigger technique was employed. [2]

Extreme sports [ edit ]

Owing to its height, Yachthouse has become, even before its completion, a preferred site for extreme sports . In November 2017, basejumpers from all across Brazil reunited to jump from a 180-metre (590 ft) height. [3] In January 2021, wingsuit enthusiasts used the building for their practice. [4]

See also [ edit ]

• Infinity Coast
• Millennium Palace
• List of tallest buildings in Brazil
• List of tallest buildings in South America

References [ edit ]

• ^ a b ACE Mais, ed. (2019). "Mais alto edifício residencial do país é um marco da Engenharia nacional" . Revista oficial da Associação de Arquitetos, Engenheiros e Técnicos de Cotia . Cotia (27): 7–9 . Retrieved 29 July 2020 .
• ^ "Yachthouse atrai olhares em evento de Base Jump, em Balneário Camboriú" (in Brazilian Portuguese) . Retrieved 12 January 2021 .
• ^ "Wingsuit no Yachthouse" . Camboriú Play. 12 January 2021 . Retrieved 12 January 2021 .

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The Floating White House: A Brief History of the Presidential Yacht

By: Evan Andrews

Updated: October 31, 2023 | Original: August 18, 2017

Before there was Air Force One, there was the presidential yacht. Dating back to the 19th century, America’s chief executives utilized navy ships and other vessels for recreation and entertaining foreign dignitaries. Nearly a dozen different ships acted as the “Floating White House” between 1880 and 1977, when the last vessel was sold at auction. During that time, they were the scene of international diplomatic summits, congressional schmoozing and the occasional Potomac River pleasure cruise.

The executive yacht “served an important purpose in enabling Presidents to escape the claustrophobic tension of the White House,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has written. It “provided a quiet sanctuary; it was handier than Camp David, easier for casual, informal discussions.”

Abraham Lincoln made use of a steamboat called the River Queen during the Civil War , but the first official presidential yachts date to the Gilded Age. Starting in 1880, America’s commanders in chief sailed aboard a series of Navy vessels including  USS Despatch , USS Dolphin and USS Sylph . In 1886, Despatc h famously ferried Grover Cleveland across New York Harbor for the dedication of the Statue of Liberty .

Presidential boating entered a new era in the early 1900s, when  USS Mayflower took over as the chief executive’s official yacht. Unlike earlier vessels, which were relatively austere in their design, Mayflower was a luxury craft previously owned by real estate millionaire Ogden Goelet. Measuring some 275 feet from stem to stern, it boasted a crew of over 150 and had a sumptuous interior that included a 30-person dining table and bathtubs made from Italian marble.

USS Mayflower is most famously associated with Theodore Roosevelt , who often used it and  USS Sylph for family vacation cruises along Long Island. A more official use came in August 1905, when Roosevelt hosted Japanese and Russian envoys aboard  Mayflower as part of his attempts to mediate peace talks in the Russo-Japanese War . He would later win the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the conflict.

Mayflower served as a presidential plaything for over two decades. Woodrow Wilson is said to have wooed his second wife Edith Bolling Galt during romantic jaunts aboard the ship, and Calvin Coolidge reportedly loved the yacht so much he stationed a Navy chaplain aboard so that he could take Sunday morning cruises without being accused of skipping church. Nevertheless, the ship’s opulence proved to be a sticking point with critics of presidential excess. In 1929, with economic concerns on the rise, Herbert Hoover  finally had  Mayflower decommissioned.

Mayflower was the largest and stateliest of the presidential yachts, but it wasn’t the last. Hoover—a devoted fisherman—soon began making day trips on a wooden-hulled vessel called USS Sequoia , and he eventually grew so attached to it that he had it featured on his 1932 Christmas card. Franklin D. Roosevelt began his tenure with Sequoia , but later switched to USS Potomac, a 165-foot former Coast Guard cutter that included a special elevator to help the wheelchair-bound president move between decks.

FDR occasionally utilized the ship for official business—it carried him to a 1941 meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill —but it was more frequently used for presidential leisure. In his book Sailor in the White House: The Seafaring Life of FDR , author Robert Cross writes that Potomac provided Roosevelt with “an instant means of extricating himself from the confines of Washington. Roosevelt could escape to the open water, where he could do some politicking and thinking, or relax and entertain on deck with friends and advisors, or simply throw a fishing line overboard and patiently wait for a bite.”

Recreation was also the main role of the presidential yachts during the administration of Harry Truman , who hosted floating poker games aboard Sequoia and the 243-foot USS Williamsburg. Dwight D. Eisenhower was more of a landlubber than his predecessors, but sea excursions became popular again in the 1960s, when Sequoia resumed its former role as the main presidential yacht. John F. Kennedy —who also utilized a yacht called Honey Fitz and a sailboat called Manitou —celebrated his final birthday with a party aboard Sequoia. Lyndon B. Johnson installed a liquor bar and enjoyed having movies projected on the main deck.

As the longest serving of the executive yachts, Sequoia played host to several chapters in presidential history. The 104-foot vessel was a more humble affair than many of the other yachts, but the seclusion of its elegant, mahogany-paneled saloon made it an ideal location for sensitive political discussions. Harry Truman talked nuclear arms policy aboard the ship with the prime ministers of Britain and Canada. In the mid-1960s, Lyndon Johnson used yacht trips to hash out Vietnam strategy and lobby legislators to support his Great Society domestic reforms. “The Sequoia was a rostrum from which he was trying to persuade congressmen and senators,” former Johnson aide Jack Valenti said.

Richard Nixon was undoubtedly the most the enthusiastic user of  Sequoia. The 37th president reportedly made as many as 100 trips aboard the yacht, including one in which he met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to negotiate the S ALT I nuclear arms agreement . Near the end of his second term, Nixon also used  Sequoia as a hideout from the controversies of the Watergate scandal . During one final cruise in August 1974, the embattled president reportedly informed his family of his decision to resign before retiring to the ship’s saloon, quaffing a glass of scotch and playing God Bless America on the piano.

The age of the presidential yacht came to a close in 1977. That year, newly inaugurated Jimmy Carter ordered that  Sequoia be offloaded in a public sale. Carter later noted that he was disturbed by the yacht’s $250,000 annual upkeep, but he was also following through on a campaign promise to dispense with the extravagance of the presidency. “Despite its distinguished career, I feel that the Presidential yacht Sequoia is no longer needed,” he wrote in a memo to his Secretary of Defense.

Today, Sequoia and  Potomac are the only two former presidential yachts still in existence. Potomac went through several different owners after its presidential service—including Elvis Presley —and is now moored in Oakland, California. Sequoia, though currently inactive and in a state of disrepair, was once used as a floating museum and private charter boat, and still retains much of its presidential memorabilia. Both vessels are now registered as National Historic Landmarks.

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The Boldt Yacht House on Wellesley Island is open to the public and for modest additional fee is a recommended tour during your visit to Boldt Castle.  Visitors are invited to take the free shuttle boat from Heart Island for easy access to this imposing structure on the river’s edge.  The Boldts’ family yachts and enormous houseboat were housed here in the slips 128 feet long.  Towering bay doors on the decorative facade provided access to the river.  The building, rising 64 feet, also featured a shop to build racing launches and quarters for crew and staff.  The grandeur of the Gilded Age is fully embodied in the structure’s shingle-style architecture, tremendous towers and spires and the steep-pitched gables.

The Boldt Yacht House interior bays prior to restoration circa 1980.

Inside the Yacht House, you will find a collection of antique wooden boats on display – courtesy of the  Antique Boat Museum located in Clayton NY.  Some of the boats on display are from the original Boldt fleet.  The intricately-designed service bay features custom-crafted steel trusses, mechanical over-head traveling cranes, screw jacks and more.  This grand landmark, first opened to the public during the summer of 1996, represents some of the 1000 Islands Region at its finest!  The Boldt Castle Yacht House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Yacht House also features a 1892 Steam Yacht.  In the late 1800’s just before the dawn of the gasoline era many private steam yachts plied the waters of the St. Lawrence and Hudson Rivers, Long Island Sound and many large lakes in the region, including the Great Lakes.

The Kestral was designed by D. Crawford and built by George Lawley at his South Boston shipyard in 1892.  Her first owner is not presently known, but the first available written records indicate that she was sold on June 14, 1899 to Samuel Keyser of Baltimore, Maryland.  After a succession of owners who lavished money and care on her, she was sold to James A. Trowbridge of Norton, Connecticut on February 19, 1937.  Mr. Trowbridge enjoyed her for nearly 33 years and her ship’s log shows  many short trips up and down Long Island Sound with a favorite stop at Northport, Long Island.

After purchasing the Kestrel in 1988, the owner chose to have the steam engine completely repaired by the renowned Conrad Milster at his boiler room at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.  In 1990, she was taken to Kettle Creek Yacht Services at Tom’s River for final finishing.  Some of the individual items that were salvaged and could be reused were her 1967 boiler and cylinder blocks, part of the engine shaft and assorted hardware.  She now has four pineapple finials atop her compound engine.

Her interior has been completely redesigned and painted white.  She has sixteen “Wylie” ports with decorative wedges, ten 22-inch deck cleats, and a compound curved sliding hatch on the forward deck.  Her outward appearance shows a semi-permanent canvas awning with roll-down protective panels around her fantail stern.  Her new five foot stacks displays Mr. Luhr’s private signal and brass decorative dolphins adorn her railends.  Her capstan is original, while her galley has all modern conveniences and the head has a very unique brass faucet with shower attachment.  During a period of five years Mr. Luhrs completed her final restoration at St. Augustine Marine Center in Florida.

The steam yacht Kestrel is representative of the period and vessels owned and operated by George Boldt.

On July 30 of 2009 Mr. Luhrs generously donated the Steam Yacht Kestrel to the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority for permanent display at the Authority’s Boldt Castle Yacht House facility for the enjoyment of present and future generations.

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Conheça os 10 prédios mais altos do Brasil

O prédio mais alto do Brasil está localizado em Balneário Camboriú, seguido por edifícios em Goiânia, João Pessoa e Belo Horizonte, compondo a lista dos 10 edifícios mais altos do país. Apesar disso, ainda é raro encontrarmos os chamados arranha-céus.

Em ordem, podemos listar os prédios mais altos do Brasil e sua cidade desta forma:

• Yachthouse – Balneário Camboriú;
• Infinity Coast – Balneário Camboriú;
• Complexo Orion – Goiânia;
• Epic Tower – Balneário Camboriú;
• Complexo Tour Geneve – João Pessoa;
• Kingdom Park Vaca Brava – Goiânia;
• Millennium Palace – Balneário Camboriú;
• Splendia Tower – Balneário Camboriú;
• Concórdia Corporate – Belo Horizonte;
• Mirante do Vale – São Paulo;

Dos 10 edifícios mais altos do país, a maioria fica em Santa Catarina e, mais precisamente, em Balneário Camboriú. Não é à toa que a cidade é considerada a Dubai brasileira. Inclusive, fizemos uma publicação com os motivos que fazem Balneário Camboriú levar o título de “Dubai brasileira” . Não deixe de conferir!

Agora, sem mais delongas, vamos para a lista dos maiores prédios do Brasil, com uma atenção especial para o maior deles, o edifício Yachthouse.

1. Yachthouse, o edifício mais alto do Brasil

Acordar em uma manhã ensolarada, olhar pela janela e contemplar toda a beleza do horizonte se encontrando com o mar. Por sorte, isso não precisa ficar na imaginação, o Yachthouse Residence Club, um dos maiores prédios residenciais do mundo e o maior do Brasil e da América Latina , pode proporcionar uma vista esplendorosa de frente para o mar.

Com previsão de entrega no final de 2021 e começo de 2022, o Yachthouse já alcançou sua altura máxima ao atingir 281 metros em dose dupla, já que estamos falando não apenas de uma torre, mas duas!

O Yachthouse Residence Club está localizado em Balneário Camboriú, litoral norte de Santa Catarina. A cidade é conhecida como “Dubai Brasileira” devido a sua beleza, entretenimento e luxo que pode proporcionar aos habitantes. Além disso, apresenta uma grande valorização dos imóveis, e por isso, atrai diversos investidores, sendo um ótimo negócio para criar patrimônio em imóvel na planta.

Além de ser a nossa Dubai, Balneário Camboriú faz parte das melhores cidades litorâneas do país , junto com Itapema. Veja nossa publicação com as 5 melhores praias do Brasil!

Características da construção

Os 281 metros de altura das duas torres gêmeas já impressionam, mas além disso, o condomínio contará com 81 pavimentos e 264 apartamentos , sendo dois por andar. O gigante está próximo a Tedesco Marina Garden Plaza, na Barra Sul, um dos melhores bairros de Balneário Camboriú.

Para a construção do maior prédio do mundo, a Pasqualotto – responsável pelo projeto e desenvolvimento –, contratou mais de 600 trabalhadores, além da utilização de 12 mil toneladas de aço e 90 mil metros cúbicos de concreto. Todo o processo custou cerca de R$200 milhões.

A estrutura do local teve referência no estilo Pininfarina , renomado símbolo italiano que traz um design sofisticado e com muita classe. A segurança é outro ponto forte no planejamento dos edifícios, por isso, a empreendedora buscou por sistemas modernos e tecnológicos de última geração.

Opções de lazer do maior prédio brasileiro

Sobre as opções de lazer no Yachthouse, podemos destacar o primeiro e o segundo andar do prédio. O primeiro andar conta com duas quadras poliesportivas, espaço para crianças, playground, dois lounges infantil, brinquedoteca, cinema, dois salões de festa e até uma lan house.

Já o segundo andar será destinado para academias, SPA, sala de pilates, espaço fitness, sala de massagem, banho turco, espaço mulher e esteticista.

Famosos que já garantiram sua morada no Yachthouse

Todo o luxo proporcionado pelo imóvel claramente atraiu os olhares de diversas celebridades, que já decidiram adquirir seu apartamento no Yachthouse Residence Club. A lista de nomes da alta sociedade brasileira já é extensa, entre eles estão:

• Luan Santana;
• e Alexandre Pires.

2. Infinity Coast

O segundo edifício mais alto do Brasil também fica localizado em Balneário Camboriú, assim como outros da lista. Ele foi entregue ainda em 2019 e era o prédio mais alto até a inauguração do projeto do Yachthouse. O edifício possui nada menos que 234 metros de altura e 66 andares.

3. Complexo Orion

O próximo prédio da lista fica em Goiânia e começou a ser construído em 2014, com investimento inicial de R$ 350 milhões. Ao todo ele possui 191 metros de altura e 50 andares . Ele abriga não somente imóveis residenciais como também salas comerciais, hospital, hotel, shopping e outros.

4. Epic Tower

Com 193 metros de altura e 55 andares , o edifício Epic Tower também está localizado em Santa Catarina, Balneário Camboriú e compõe o quarto prédio mais alto do Brasil.

5. Complexo Tour Geneve

Já o Complexo Tour Geneve fica no nordeste, em João Pessoa, com 186 metros de altura e também possui ocupações residenciais e comerciais. Trata-se, ainda, de um edifício preocupado com a sustentabilidade.

6. Kingdom Park Vaca Brava

Outro prédio de Goiânia da lista, o Kingdom Park Vaca Brava é o sexto maior prédio do Brasil, com 175 metros de altura, 52 andares e assinatura do renomado Burle Marx.

7. Millennium Palace Residencial

O sétimo prédio da lista é o Millennium Palace, com localização em Balneário Camboriú e 177 metros de altura , entregue em 2018. Este é mais um edifício de luxo da cidade e possui 46 andares no total.

8. Splendia Tower

Outro prédio localizado no litoral catarinense é o Splendia Tower, um pouco menor que o anterior, com 175 metros de altura e 43 pavimentos.

9. Concórdia Corporate

O nono prédio mais alto do país é mineiro e está localizado em Nova Lima. Com 172 metros de altura e 44 andares . Ao contrário dos outros edifícios da lista, o prédio Concórdia Corporate é comercial.

10. Mirante do Vale

Por último, o prédio Mirante do Vale é o décimo edifício da nossa lista, com somente um metro a menos que o anterior. Ele é o único prédio paulista e o mais velho deles, com 54 anos de trajetória.

Estes são os 10 maiores prédios do país, a maioria está localizado em Balneário Camboriú, seguido por localizações como Goiânia, Belo Horizonte, João Pessoa e São Paulo. Cada dia novos prédios são construídos e essa lista pode mudar a qualquer momento.

Já pensou em morar em um dos prédios mais altos do Brasil?

E então, ficou com vontade de conhecer um pouco mais de perto essas grandes construções e, quem sabe até, garantir o seu lugar em um deles? Com a Potencial Imóveis você pode! Somos uma imobiliária do litoral catarinense e em nosso site você pode conferir todas as opções de apartamentos em Balneário Camboriú , inclusive apartamentos à venda nos edifícios dessa lista.

Além desse investimento, outros empreendimentos são visionários no setor, como apartamentos garden, que você pode conhecer mais conferindo o texto: Apartamento Garden: o que é e por que optar por um?

Se você é daquelas pessoas que gosta de ficar por dentro das novidades, aí vai um conselho da Potencial: fique ligado que Balneário não para e já temos notícias de um edifício com mais de 150 andares em aprovação! Será que o Yachthouse logo vai perder seu posto no primeiro lugar?

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Alone on the Ocean, With 400,000 Friends

As Cole Brauer speeds to the finish of a solo race around the world, she is using Instagram to blow up sailing’s elitist image.

Before she could begin the Global Solo Challenge, a nonstop solo race around the world, Cole Brauer had to sail First Light, a 40-foot yacht, from Rhode Island to Spain. Credit... Samuel Hodges

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• Published Feb. 29, 2024 Updated March 1, 2024

Video dinner parties, spa days, stuffed animals, favorite hoodies and cozy, colorful fleece blankets. Cole Brauer’s Instagram feed hardly feels like the work of someone racing a 40-foot sailboat around the world in the Global Solo Challenge. But Ms. Brauer, 29, is not an average ocean racer.

In 2022, Ms. Brauer had tried out for another competition, the Ocean Race, which is considered the pinnacle of professional ocean racing. Sailors in that race are highly trained, wear matching foul weather gear and have corporate sponsors. And most of them are men. Ms. Brauer, who had sailed thousands of miles on high performance ocean racing boats, felt she was ready to join their ranks.

But after competing in trials in France, Ms. Brauer was told she was “too short for the Southern Ocean” and was sent on her way.

In spite of her small stature — she stands 5 feet 1 inch — Ms. Brauer rounded Cape Horn, Chile, on Jan. 26, the last of the three great capes of her journey to finish the Global Solo Challenge. It is a feat most of the Ocean Race sailors picked instead of her have never even attempted. And despite being the youngest competitor in the race, she is ranked second overall, just days away from reaching the finish line in A Coruña, Spain.

Along the way, her tearful reports of breakages and failures, awe-struck moments during fiery sunrises, dance parties and “shakas” signs at the end of each video have garnered her a following that has eclipsed any sailor’s or sailing event’s online, even the Ocean Race and the America’s Cup, a prestigious race that is more well known by mainstream audiences.

“I’m so happy to have rounded the Horn,” Ms. Brauer said in a video call from her boat, First Light, after a morning spent sponging out endless condensation and mildew from its bilges. “It feels like Day 1. I feel reborn knowing I’ll be in warmer weather. The depression you feel that no one in the world can fix that. Your house is trying to sink and you can’t stop it.”

Shifting gears, she added, “It’s all getting better.”

Ms. Brauer’s rise in popularity — she has more than 400,000 followers on Instagram — has come as a surprise to her, but her achievements, combined with her bright personality, have struck a chord. And she has set a goal of using her platform to change the image of professional ocean sailing.

“Cole wants to prove you can go around the world and watch Netflix every once in a while and wear your pajamas,” said Lydia Mullan, Ms. Brauer’s media manager. “As for her mental health, she’s really creating a space in her routine for herself, to create that joy she hasn’t seen in other sailors.”

Four months after she began the Global Solo Challenge, a solo, nonstop race around the world featuring sailboats of different sizes, Ms. Brauer is holding strong. Sixteen sailors began the journey and only eight remain on the ocean, with the Frenchman Philippe Delamare having finished first on Feb. 24 after 147 days at sea.

Ms. Brauer, who was more than a week ahead of her next closest competitor as of Thursday morning, is on track to set a speed record for her boat class, and to be the first American woman to complete a solo, nonstop sailing race around the world.

Her Authentic Self

Ms. Brauer has been happy to turn the image of a professional sailor on its head. Competitors in the Ocean Race and the America’s Cup tend to pose for static social media posts with their arms crossed high on their chests, throwing stern glares. Ms. Brauer would rather be more comfortable.

She brought objects like fleece blankets on her journey, despite the additional weight, and said solo sailing has helped give her the freedom to be herself.

“Without those things I would be homesick and miserable,” she said of her supply list. “We need comfort to be human. Doing my nails. Flossing. It’s hard for the general public to reach pro sailors. People stop watching. If you treat people below you, people stop watching.”

Other female sailors have noticed the same disconnect. “The year I did the Vendée Globe, Michel Desjoyeaux didn’t mention that anything went wrong,” Dee Caffari, a mentor of Ms. Brauer’s who has sailed around the world six times, said of that race’s winner. “Then we saw his jobs list after the finish and we realized he was human.”

Ms. Brauer, as her social media followers can attest, is decidedly human.

They have gotten used to her “hangout” clothes and rock-out sessions. Her team produces “Tracker Tuesdays,” where a weather forecaster explains the routes Ms. Brauer chooses and why she uses different sails, and “Shore Team Sunday,” where team members are introduced.

“In the beginning I looked at what she was doing, posting about washing her knickers in bucket and I was like, ‘No! What are you doing?’” Ms. Caffari said. “I’ve been so professional and corporate in my career. She’s been so authentic and taken everyone around the world with her. Cole is that next generation of sailor. They tell their story in a different way and it’s working.”

Finding a Purpose

Ms. Brauer was introduced to sailing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Those days of casual racing on the turquoise waters of Kaneohe Bay informed her vision of an inclusive sailing community. That image was shattered when she came to the mainland to try her hand at professional sailing.

“When I came to the East Coast it was so closed off,” she said of those early experiences. “I couldn’t get a job in the industry. Pro sailors were jaded. They didn’t want anyone to take their job. It’s a gig-based economy. Competition, we’re pinned against each other, especially women in high-performance sailing since there are fewer of us.”

“This whole process of being a pro sailor over the past five years, I feel mentally punched in the face and my legs kicked out from under me,” she added. “I screamed and I cried. Without those experiences I wouldn’t be as mentally tough. It made me callused.”

A big break happened when she landed a gig as boat captain for Michael Hennessy’s successful Class40 Dragon. The boat was a perfect platform to hone her ocean sailing skills as she ripped up and down the East Coast delivering it to races, often alone, pushing Dragon to its limits. Her Instagram posts of those adventures drew attention, and she was invited to tryout for the Ocean Race, a fully crewed race around the world in powerful 65-footers.

“I was crushed,” Ms. Brauer said of being rejected after the trials.

Ms. Brauer, though, found a new purpose. After months of living in her van and working on Dragon, she found a benefactor in F.K. Day, the president of World Bicycle Relief and the executive vice president of SRAM Corporation, who, along with his brother Lincoln, agreed to buy a boat and fund a massive refit for the Global Solo Challenge, which was only three months away.

Conducting the hurricane of activity last summer in Newport, R.I., Ms. Brauer knew this was her moment to shine. But representatives for her new sponsors had reservations about her bold social media experiment.

“I got a massive pushback: ‘How can you be so vain. This isn’t important. We don’t want to pay for this,’” she said. “I said none of this is going to matter if the world can’t see it.”

Her boat was covered with cameras her shore team could monitor, with technology allowing for constant recording that could be used to capture unexpected twists. Ms. Brauer got some immediate traction, but nothing prepared her for the numbers she would hit once the race began.

“We were taking bets in Spain,” said Ms. Brauer, who had to sail First Light nearly 3,000 miles from Newport to Spain as a qualifier for the race. “There was a photo of me excited we hit 10,000 followers. Ten thousand for a little race? That’s massive.”

A few months later she has 40 times that count.

A Dangerous Journey

Only a handful of solo ocean racers have been American, all of whom being male. Now Ms. Brauer has a larger following than any of them, pushing far beyond the typical reach of her sport.

“This is a really good case study,” says Marcus Hutchinson, a project manager for ocean racing teams. For me she’s an influencer. She’s a Kardashian. People will be looking for her to promote a product. She doesn’t need to worry about what the American sailors think. That’s parochial. She has to split with the American environment.”

Unlike her peers, Ms. Brauer is happy to do some extracurricular work along the way toward goals like competing in the prestigious Vendée Globe. “I’m part of the social media generation,” she said. “It’s not a burden to me.”

The playful videos and colorful backdrop, though, can make it easy for her followers to forget that she is in the middle of a dangerous race. Half her competitors in the Global Solo Challenge have pulled out, and ocean races still claim lives, particularly in the violent, frigid storms of the Southern Ocean.

“She was apprehensive,” Ms. Caffari said of Ms. Brauer’s rounding Cape Horn. “I told her: ‘You were devastated that you didn’t get on the Ocean Race. Now look at you. Those sailors didn’t even get to go to the Southern Ocean.’”

The question now is how Ms. Brauer will retain her followers’ desire for content after the race is over.

“She will be unaware of the transition she went through,” Mr. Hutchinson said. “She’s become a celebrity and hasn’t really realized it.”

Ms. Brauer, however, said she received as much from her followers as she gave them.

“They are so loving,” she said. “I send a photo of a sunset, and they paint watercolors of the scene to sell and raise money for the campaign. When I start to feel down, they let me stand on their shoulders.”

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The Yacht House

• Author : Richard Horden
• Location : United Kingdom (Hampshire)
• Year : 1992
• Function : Individual Housing
• Elements : Structure
• Status : Built

The building structure is arranged in a taught discipline of columns on a 3.7m grid. The house is a perfect square on plan made up of 5 x 5 bays giving a footprint of 342 sqm. The entrance is located on the axis and central bay. Roof and cladding modules can be moved to rearrange the plan and to add to as required by the owner. After the concrete slab was laid by a local builder the light aluminium and stainless steel frame was assembled on site by the owner and family in 5hrs 6minutes and 11 seconds.

La estructura del edificio se organiza en columnas sobre una malla de 3,7 m. La casa es un cuadrado perfecte en planta compuesta por 5 x 5 tramos que dan una superficie total de 342 metros cuadrados. La entrada se ubica en el eje y bahía central. El techo y la fachada pueden moverse para reorganizar el espacaio y ser agregado según las necesidades del propietario. Después de que el constructor colocara una losa de hormigón, el propietario y su familia montaron el marco de aluminio ligero y acero inoxidable en el lugar en 5 horas, 6 minutos y 11 segundos.

The building design is influenced by The Case Study Programme and in particular houses by California architects Craig Ellwood and Raphael Soriano.

El diseño del edificio está influenciado por The Case Study Program y, en particular, por las casas de los arquitectos californianos Craig Ellwood y Raphael Soriano.

Richard Horden designed the roller reefing canopies to fit the yacht inspired architecture. This was later developed into production by various Austrian, German and USA canopy manufacturers. The horizontal architecture nestles into the New Forest woodland location with views westward over the Avon river valley. The painter Augustus John’s studio can be seen on the distant hillside.

Richard Horden diseñó las marquesinas plegables, influenciado en la arquitectura inspirada de yates. Posteriormente, varios fabricantes de marquesinas de Austria, Alemania y EE. UU desarrollaron esta idea. La vivienda se encuentra en el bosque de New Forest con vistas hacia el oeste sobre el valle del río Avon. El estudio del pintor Augustus John se puede ver en la lejana ladera.

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1 day after people: Both building's lights shine brightly along the skyscraper-lined skyline of Balneário Camboriú. But as the powe grid fails to supply electricity, the lights flicker and both towers lose power permanently.

1 week after people: Food and other consumable/edible products now start to rot in many of the apartment's fridges, attracting insects and rats which spark a feeding frenzy on both towers.

1 month after people: Inside both apartments, domestic animals are starving inside the apartments. Many die due to starvation, but some animals managed to escape into the ghost city that is Balneário Camboriú.

1 year after people: The parking lot of the apartment become infested with bats, as they take up residences and thrive with no natural predators nearby. The interiors of the apartments now start to suffer the effects of the Brazilian heat, as weathering and corrosion move in to attack.

10 years after people: Over the course of several rainstorms, the water brought on by them slowly accumulates in the car park, until some areas of the car park are now submerged.

25 years after people: Windows all across the glass-covered exterior now buckle with failing hinges. One window at a time, they loosen to a point where they fall off the side of the buildings, shattering upon impact.

30 years after people: Trees, plants and vines continue to spread themselves on both towers, causing cracks to form in the support columns.

75 years after people: The apartment elevators are hanging on by a few remaining cables. But as corrosion on the cables worsen, they overstress themselves and snap, leaving the elevators to tumble a horrifying drop to their utter demise.

150 years after people: An intense tropical storm lashes upon Balneário Camboriú, battering the facades of both towers of the Yachthouse Residence Club. Their immense height makes both structures more vulnerable to violent winds, as they towers sway back and forth. This swaying causes the collapses of some of its floors and destroys a tenth of the remaining windows left. Despite the massive destruction brought on by the storm, both towers still come out fine, for now.

180 years after people: Weathering has now caused multiple sections of one the towers to finally succumb. They buckle and crumble, and the top portion of one of the towers now comes raining down on the rest of the structure. However, it is not a complete pancake collapse, as the upper section of the tower falls towards the second tower, scraping one of the facades, and ultimately leading to the collapse of both towers. When it is all over, only 2 mountains of debris are left standing on what used to be the second tallest structures in the country.

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