Sergio Davi, the ocean-crossing adventurer, has just started an epic 10,000-nm voyage on a 36-foot RIB from Salerno, Sicily, to Los Angeles.
He expects the trip to take about 100 days, arriving in LA toward the end of February. The route is from Gibraltar to the Canary Islands, then Cape Verde, and across the Atlantic to French Guyana in South America. Next, up to the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal and then north to L.A. Davi will be alone for most of the voyage, but some friends and sponsors will join him for a few of the 23 legs involved.
This is hardly Davi’s first trip across the Atlantic. In 2019, he cruised, solo, from Sicily to New York, also on a 36-foot RIB. Davi now is on a Nuova Jolly Prince RIB, built in Italy, and powered by twin Suzuki DF300F dual-prop outboards. The fuel-efficient, 300-hp outboards are the flagship of Suzuki’s outboard line.
The RIB, named Aretusa Explorer, can top out at 60 knots, but Davi was cruising at 22 knots at the start of the trip. It has extra fuel tanks, and a protected cabin for sleeping. All the electronics are from Simrad, including a chartplotter, GPS, AIS, autopilot and radar.
Davi will be conducting some experiments and collecting sea water to measure the state of the marine ecosystem for two Italian universities along the way. Read more:
https://www.simrad-yachting.com/en-gb/world-of-simrad/news/sergio-davi-q-and-a/
