Starting and ending in Lisbon, this voyage will take Sara and me across the Mediterranean Sea and back. The initial motivation was the personal dream of being in my hometown, Murano, with Sara. That dream quickly escalated into a real oceanographic expedition across the Med.
The “plan” is to set sail at the beginning of May 2026, just after submitting my PhD thesis and giving Sara a well-deserved refit. If orcas decide that my rudder is not worth their attention, I should be inside the Med after less than a week from departure day.
The “plan” (in quotation marks, as all good sailing plans should be) is to sail to Venice slowly-ish, mostly solo, without planning too much. Occasionally, friends and family will join on board, and there’ll be plenty of stopovers in some of the most beautiful places of the Med, and we’ll simply keep chasing plankton alng the way to Venice.
On the way back, things will speed up a bit, as I need to be back in Lisbon by October. Less stopovers, but same amount of science.
I will not plan too much: friends and family will join onboard, there’ll be plenty of stopovers in some of the most beautiful places of the Med, and we’ll simply keep chasing the sun (and plankton) back toward Lisbon.
and I will not plan too much: friends and family will join onboard, there’ll be plenty of stopovers in some of the most beautiful places of the Med, and we’ll simply keep chasing the sun (and plankton) back toward Lisbon.
When I say that we will be chasing plankton, I mean it literally. For the PlanktoSpace project, I will decide where to sail by checking satellite images showing the distribution of plankton around my area!
We should be back in Lisbon by October 2026, but who knows.. we might take a little longer 🙂
