A HISTORY OF FAILURE AND INSPIRATION 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?
GERIATRIC BONCÚLE 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
MEN's COMBINED SAILING Transfer of the Class40 "Ola" in good company of skiers and sailors, from Dubrovnik to Livorno, May 2019...
SUSAK aka SANSIG 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
ST. NICHOLAS RACE 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
LA MELA - JABUKA RACE 2018 For most people it's green, yellow or red. For farmers it's Jonagold, Golden Delishes, Idared or Granny Smith. And for 16 years in a row sailors know it as a
FROM A TO A.. 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
MAST, OH DON'T..!? ..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
LA PRIMERA ETAPA 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
THE BIG START 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)
FINAL PREPARATIONS 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
OUR TITLE SPONSOR!! With just three months left to the start of the Mini Transat, we got encouraging news - a new sponsor joined our team. It's the Specialty hospital [Medico](http://www.
THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN IS OUT! 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
LA DOU ♪ DOU ♪ DOU ♪ - 222 MINI SOLO 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.
THE CALAMARI LESSON (LA LEZIONE DEL CALAMARO) - GPI 2017. 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
SEASON 2016. DIGESTIF 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
MINI FASTNET 2016. - The return of the Jedi 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
TROPHEE MARIE AGNES PERON 2016. It's for Marie Agnes Peron, a sailor that went missing in the Bay of Biscay during the Mini Transat 1991., that this [regatta](http://map.winchesclub.org/) is a hommage
SEASON 2016. APERITIF 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
WINTER FACELIFTING II - BOTOXING & DIETING 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
THE AUTUMN - WINTER COLLECTION 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.
THE SUMMER OF 2015. 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
SOLO QUALIF 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
OUR FIRST REGATTA - THE GPI 2015. At the day of the start, we were excited and confused. But ready to give our best. 3, 2, 1... START! Light winds, sunny day, what more is there to
FIRST SEA TRIALS Eloa is refreshed. She is ready, but are we? That's what we wanted to find out, so Eloa took us sailing around Croatian islands to show us what she was