15/06/2022 PacificAt 02:30 a.m. JK time, we dropped below 400 miles from Nuku Hiva capital of the Marquesas Islands.NuKu Hiva is the farthest Island in the world from all continents, and we are basically at the antipodes with respect to Italy.Awaiting us is a pristine land populated by just 3,000 people divided into three villages […]
Monthly Archives: June 2022
12/06/2022 Pacific location S 6.04.914 W 127.27.870 we are 767 miles from Nuku Hiva.It is 6 p.m. We sail under Gennaker with winds between 10 and 15 knots.JK sail in favor of current dominates waves at 9 knots.We are all in the cockpit.The sun, hidden by the imposing 240-square-meter A4, begins to give us pause.We […]
08/06/2022 1600 miles to the Marquesas Islands 2400 miles behind us. The wind and current have dropped. We’re slowing down… It’s very long aaaaaaa, I can’t wait to get there, I can’t wait to dive into the sea, I can’t wait to lie down on the beach. The hours: every day weighs twice as much, […]
Warning to the reader.In order to fully experience this post put on your earbuds, download Vasco Rossi’s “I’m Still in a Coma” and turn up the volume to the max.This is how they shy in the middle of the Pacific.Vasco’s rock guitar gives me the right charge to face a pitch-black sea.The stars and moon […]
06/06/2022 I am in the middle of the Pacific 1850 miles from the Marquesas Islands sailing in a cobalt blue sea. 06/06/2022 I find myself in the middle of the Pacific at the age of 57 and what month… am I older than you. 06/06/2022 I find myself in the middle of the Pacific the […]