Feature: Velerokrait - Carlos and Ivana Travel the World!

Allow us to introduce you to Ivana and Carlos, avid sailors from Alicante, Spain! Ivana and Carlos are passionate travellers who left it all behind to travel the world. For the past four years they have lived on their ship and have sailed the Mediterranean. Their upcoming adventures include crossing the Atlantic from the Caribbean and heading to Panama to cross the canal.

They have generously shared their story with us, and we are thrilled to share it with you!

Where are you right now? How did you get here? 

Right now, we are in St. Martin in the French part, anchored in Marigot Bay.

Tell us about yourself. Why’d you choose your lifestyle? How long have you been at it? 

We are Ivana and Carlos from Alicante Spain. We left our jobs in Spain, rented our house and began to prepare a dream, which we made come true in 2019. We have been living aboard the Krait for 4 years, a 12-meter sailboat, a Jeanneau sun odyssey 40.3 - we have prepared with great care, effort and work since we bought it in 2016 until we cast off. First, we sailed through the Mediterranean Sea, Italy, France, Greece, Morocco, and Sicily. Due to COVID we had to delay our Atlantic crossing, which we finally did last year. We left the Canary Islands on December 15, 2022, heading to Cape Verde and then we crossed the Atlantic- 2700 miles to reach Bequia (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines). It took 16 days of navigation. We have been visiting all the Caribbean Antilles- the next destination is the British Virgin Islands, Aruba, Venezuela, Colombia, and San Blas Panama.

How did you learn about SEEKR? What product(s) of ours do you have onboard? How’s it working out for you?

We have two Sirocco II fans. They are wonderful- they are very powerful and a very successful product to take on a boat. We are very happy with them. This brand of boat fan is a real discovery, a resistant and very good material.

We have put one of our Sirocco II’s in the main cabin, and another in the dining room. We have installed them so that the cables are not visible, and it has turned out wonderfully. We learned about the fans through friends who also sail the Acheron sailboat, as well as through a Spanish family. They bought their Sirocco II fans through Amazon- we had never seen it in Spain but when we got here to St Martin they were in the nautical stores on the Dutch side. We bought two and we are delighted, they are wonderful. We are missing another two for the other cabins, but we will buy them later. Here in the Caribbean, they are used because when it rains so much, you have to close the hatches so that no water enters, and it is quite hot. Therefore, we put on the Sirocco II fan and we are cool and comfortable.

What’s next on your adventure checklist? Any plans for the near future? Distant future?

We want to continue enjoying our pirate life and continue getting to know places and their people. We plan to go around the world, but for now, we are going little by little to the following destinations: the British Virgin Islands, Aruba, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama, then cross the channel and continue to the Pacific. In this life, the best thing is that you are the owner of your time and Freedom. That is why there are no fixed plans because you can still go to a place that you like and stay. The best thing in this life is that you carry the house on your back and the sails that take you, but our dream is to go around the world on our sailboat.

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We wish all our adventurers a safe and fantastic voyage as they embark on their next trip! Follow Ivana and Carlos at @velerokrait, and us @seekrlife for more!

If you would like to experience all that a Sirocco II fan has to offer, check out our website or visit our store locator, or ask for Sirocco IIs to be installed in your sail boat!

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