Like a miner in the middle of the sea in a bicycle outfit.Navigating and oceanic navigators.My dream, now become reality of sailing around the world, starts from far away.It starts from the insecurities of a shy child with poor health.Rickety ( my head grew too big ) and with chronic rheumatoid arthritis I grew up […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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