13:00 in Santa Lucia time zone 15/12/2021. Cristiana and I are leaving Rodney Bay Marina. We leave JK, but above all we leave 4 wonderful guys with whom we shared unforgettable moments. I dedicate this last page of the Crossing Atlantic 2021 logbook to them. Simone Stolfo “Simo” secretary of Cilento sailing. On board he […]
Monthly Archives: December 2021
17:55 UTC i.e. 13:55 Caribbean time. The crew sleeps after a busy night and I, alone at the helm, cross the 100-mile barrier on arrival. The day is splendid with the mild sea and the trade winds blowing at a constant 15 knots. With mainsail and jib JK moves slowly. ETA of arrival in Santa […]
08/12 at 16:30 UTC it’s my turn at the helm. Wave after wave we arrived at 239 miles from Santa Lucia. Since yesterday morning the sea has been crossed by brown algae which are putting our hydrogenerator to the test. We wonder about their origin. They come from land supports Lollo (Lorenzo Castaldo), who has […]
Among my good intentions, almost always unfulfilled, was that of writing about this experience every day. Then every day I put it off. Not because I didn’t have something to tell, incredible things were happening around me and I was part of an unimaginable adventure. I just couldn’t taste it. It took me a while. […]
Fourteenth Atlantic Night. My shift at the helm with Manuel starts at 00:00 UTC. Manuel is a thirty-two year old sailor from Trieste, full of himself, not a pleasant character in his own words, and he boasts of it with a laugh that attracts slaps. He says about himself: “I can’t please everyone” the problem […]
Noises, the nights in the ocean are very long and the time marked by shifts at the helm. I feel that JK is in pain and he communicates it to me through the noise. The metals, the woods, the ropes, the winches, the blocks, the trolleys, the slamming doors all generate a sinister noise. The […]