After 30,000 miles of solo sailing across the oceans, Alessandro Tosetti aboard Aspra was stopped by killer whales

Our member Alessandro Tosetti, headed to Sanremo to complete the Global Solo Challenge , after 78 days of sailing from Auckland passed the Azores and was about to cross the Strait of Gibraltar when he was stopped by a pod of killer whales that damaged the rudder blade. Having entered the Gulf of Cadiz on […]
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Having left Auckland on January 11th , sailing solo without stopover towards Sanremo, Alessandro rounded Cape Horn a month later and reached the Equator today, March 11th at 10.05 UTC. We reached him by phone to get his comments. βAt the moment I’m preparing to raise the mainsail entering the trade winds, towards the archipelago […]