About
us
Lucio Bellomo
After an academic career as a PhD and physical oceanographer, which led me as far as the South Pacific Ocean and allowed me to understand some of the phenomena that rule the oceans, I started out a new life from my biggest passions: sailing and the underwater world.
I completed two Atlantic crossing sailings, I was a freediving fisherman in a lost bay in the Antilles, I worked as a scuba and freediving instructor in Ustica and Marettimo in the Mediterranean Sea, but also in the Philippines and in the Maldives.
In 2018, I sailed alone for more than 4 months on a very small sailboat with no cabin touching all the small inhabited Italian islands: the project, called 33 Isole (33 Islands), allowed me to know profoundly their social heritage, so fragile yet immense. The book I’ve written about this adventure has been published in 2023.
I hope to share these and many more adventures with whoever will choose to come aboard with us. In Italian, English, French, Spanish or… Sicilian!
From a little and remote provincial swimming pool where I worked as a swimming teacher I reached the immense and long-craved Australia, that hosted me as an au pair first, then as a digger of grueling lands and later as all-around waitress in a Sydney cafe. The mark that this experience left inside me was so deep that I could not leave my beloved backpack anymore: it has been following me ever since through all my travels in South East Asia and more.
Since the Australian years, I never gave up cultivating my love for diving with great motivation and passion. Until the day I decided to become a scuba instructor in the Philippines.
After the Philippine years, I’ve been endlessly switching between the tropical and the Mediterranean seas. I learnt how both to appreciate their evident diversity and to admire their singularities, but I never learnt how to choose one of them without missing the other. Maybe that’s why I always carry my camera with me when I travel: not to forget even a single shade of those colors the sea has at sunrise or sunset, and to be able to recollect those moments with the right people.
I can tell you my stories in English and Italian, but you can challenge me in French and Spanish if you wish so!
Elisa Manganelli
Our philosophy
Sailing
Ours is a never-ending sailing voyage.
Boat means sharing space and stories in the utmost respect of everyone. It implies proximity and communion with the sea. Through contemplation, it makes approach beauty. Boat means feeling free to have a different perspective.
Sailing means that we sail. For real. With adrenaline or being patient, we accept in any case to move in the most respectful way for the environment. We exploit the wind through the sails, and the energy of the sun through photovoltaic panels for the batteries and the electric dinghy.
We will be more than happy to share with you from the most poetic to the most technical moments of it, showing you or even learning too!
Home
We’re two young lovers of the sea, of the islands, and of traveling. We try to marry all these inputs in the concept of sailboat, our home 365 days a year.
When you come aboard, you enter our house, where you’ll be our guests just like friends.
At our place we cooking is done with done and plenty of care. Fresh and local ingredients bring on the table the essence of our Mediterranean cuisine, served rigorously with no single-use plastic.
On our floating home there will always be the harmony that stems from a slow approach to life, with no watches, where time is naturally marked by sunrise and sunset.
Diving
We’re two dive instructors with a peculiar style, refined throughout the years thanks to a deep knowledge of the tropical seas, a scientific approach, and an unconditional love for our Mediterranean.
We show explain and tell, before during and after every dive. And please be patient if it’s too much, especially when it comes to nudibranchs…
Scuba or freediving, to learn or to explore, you’ll dive personally with us using the facilities and the logistics of the most serious diving centers in our destinations, to offer you exclusivity and professionalism.
Culture
Our approach to traveling doesn’t end with natural beauty and clichés.
Beside pristine bays and the underwater explosion of life, as many treasures hide on land, often too hard to unveil for the tourist passing by.
We want to pique your curiosity to turn your holiday into a moment of cultural discovery too, where you’ll be able to grasp the authenticity of places and people.
At every stop you’ll find a big family ready to welcome and guide you.