Adriatic Atlantic

What drives a First World human being, surrounded by all comforts and every possibility of fulfillment, to collect a very long series of failures, frustrations and struggles against unbeatable Leviathans?

There are times in life when you start to change the criteria for choosing your activities and the people which surround you. To have a toilet in your boat, a

Transfer of the Class40 "Ola" in good company of skiers and sailors, from Dubrovnik to Livorno, May 2019...

As Barry White sang: "My first, my last, my everythiiing." That pretty much sums up my racing calendar for the year 2019., with the race around Susak being the girl

I believe all of you reading this article already know who St. Nicholas is and what he represents to all sailors and seamen. Him and me are pretty close, I

It's been a while since our last story. Few are the reasons, and all of them pretty, pretty, pretty good. The Mini Transat craze has blown off a bit and

..bend? .. mess with me? .. break? It is the 1st of November - Halloween in Las Palmas. Hot as usual, but getting even hotter seeing we are getting ready to leave

It's been a while since I've entered the "relax" mode, 10 days to be exact. The first five of which I was sleeping, eating and drinking and the latter five

It's 4 am, Saturday.. Light drizzle in La Rochelle, 36 hours to the start of the Mini Transat 2017 La Boulangere. I just came back from picking up Šime (Stipaničev)

Well, well.. You know the feeling when time goes by so fast and you feel you don't have any control? This was the feeling I had this time two years

Crowdfunding - ˈkraʊdfʌndɪŋ - is a financing method that involves funding a project with relatively modest contributions from a large group of individuals. In our case, the funds are raised

Less than 140 days to the start of the Mini Transat. I'm stuck in a traffic jam on my way to Genova, on an Italian highway, the second time today.

Squid are cephalopods of the order Teuthida, they can be caught by pescafondo and different kind of fishing nets. In the GPI (Gran Premio d'Italia) we found out another way

Where there is an [aperitif](http://www.adriatic-atlantic.com/season-2016-preparations/), there should be a digestif, too. The main course being the [Trophee MAP](http://www.adriatic-atlantic.com/trophee-marie-agnes-peron-2016-2/) and the

Doaurenez is a small village in Brittany, France. 20.000 souls, most of them sea oriented. What a beautiful sight to see - every day at least 30 boats out

After all the winter works, Eloa was shiny and ready for some serious sea trials. My friend Dado and his Mini Transat project companion "Sisa II" - a Pogo2, CRO

After a season of fantastic sailing experiences, Eloa begged for some changes and improvements. As Christmas was just around the corner, we decided to reward ourselves with a major facelifting

Every month one regatta to be sailed, that was our plan. But in September, our plan failed as I got sick just before Viska Regatta, so no races in September.

After the solo qualif experience, I had to return to the everyday life routine. It wasn't easy, as in the solo qualif one passes through an emotional catharsis and realizes

The hardest part of a Mini Transat project is getting to the starting line in France. One of the big steps in getting there is the solo qualifier, a 1000