The time we spent in the Caribbean passed quickly, perhaps because we weren’t in a hurry to leave. It sounds like a contradiction, but one of the things I have learned during this long journey is not to chase life, but to take the time so that your projects can take shape. After completing the … Read more
This last leg was not easy. Passing the Doldrums, on the equatorial belt, was more challenging than expected. We had to sail with little wind and an annoying cross wave that made Milanto roll heavily. All the weather reports we analysed were inaccurate: the Doldrums are treacherous and unpredictable. The air at the equator is … Read more
In this long crossing of the South Atlantic I would like to use a compilation of selected entries from my travel diary. It seems to me the best way to have people understand the conditions that are experienced on a sailboat, crewed by two people, tackling a passage like this; it was not one of … Read more
Bartolomeu Dias in 1487 stopped here to shelter from the strong winds that sweep the coast of Namibia. He called this place ‘Angra Pequena’, meaning small bay. Four centuries later the small town that had formed at the bottom of this cove was named Lüderitz, named after Adolf Lüderitz, a German tobacco merchant who had … Read more
This penultimate stretch of the Indian Ocean, from Réunion Island to South Africa, is one of the most demanding of our whole world tour. We will approach the Cape of Good Hope, which together with Cape Horn is one of the two great passages that every sailor dreams of doing at least once in their … Read more
‘Come, let’s go find the tomb of the pirate La Buse!’ Danielle tells me as soon as I get in the car. We met at a party and she wants to show me around to get to know the island better. We reach the small monumental cemetery of Saint Paul located on the edge of … Read more
There is a passage in Jack London’s, The Call of the Wild that has always struck me: ‘There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness … Read more
‘The courage of a sailor does not lie in taking the waves, but in facing the departures,’ says Valerio as we tell each other about the experiences we have lived in these past two weeks in Lombok. And that’s right, every departure is painful, because you leave behind many memories of life, lived intensely, in … Read more
When we left at the beginning of January, from the island of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, our world tour was to be a dream made real, together with many people who would share with us in one or more of the routes within the World ARC. This was the only way to cover the … Read more
