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you want to cross the atlantic ocean to
rowing
That is the question that got me out of my
lethargy that question made me
connect again with my illusions
lost and also helped me to
to learn
five steps to go out and navigate the
lifetime
the first of them the first of them
is to mark a course to know where
We headed
I was one of those who were going at full speed
towards nowhere
clear that he had attitudes skills
knowledge but it really was not
happy
one of my psychologists made me one
observation that left me stunned
says pedro
what are your passions to answer
your next question was and tell me how
you see yourself in 5 10 and 20 years
his conclusions left me aside
said married account that as you see yourself in
the future does not include any of your
passions I could not believe it
and that is that life is placing you in
situations where they may not
Felix is not satisfied at all
study a career I started working
I started having to pay bills to ask
total mortgages that I had manufactured
a life that did not satisfy me
so I was wondering, but
where is that lost illusion
where is it then then just
preparing this talk when I gave
mind that he was a teenager
my family moved from Barcelona and
we went to live in tenerife
to the town of the Christians
me every afternoon after school
I looked through a small telescope
those sailboats those navigators that
They were calling before sailing to America
he looked at us and said these people were
I saw happy
many of them naked were bathed not
they worked
what a life different from what I
had known until then at 15
years I told myself I will be one of them a
late in the fairgrounds at a fair
of the furniture and you will tell me what you have to
see the furniture with all this at a fair
of the furniture
I was absorbed looking at a picture of
a boat that was hanging on
Wall
suddenly a hand touched my back
and he tells me I want to cross the ocean
Atlantic rowing
I turned and without thinking I said yes to
ask me why the fact that yes
first place did not know this person
second I had not rowed in my life
but good thing is that I actually gave myself
account that that question connected with
the teenager and that promise that I
would do is that the decisions have to be
take them
first with the emotions after
think about the reason think if you really
it suits you and then if it suits you and
you want to take action
because I already had a course I had something
I was really excited
I knew I was going to solve
any problem that arose
second point that I learned is that
build a team
you have to organize the whole boat and there
than looking for a clear paddle mate
We did not know anything about building boats
sailing rowing the professional you
save time and money and that’s what
that did not make more than 50 people that
They wanted to link with us to
realize this feat the illusion that
we will put them caught them
everyone likes to be in a
event in something that spreads illusion
Well, if it was
lot of people linked the one that
We also needed sponsors
We are looking for resources and we are going to
the nautical salons and we are looking for
sponsorship and we did not find the
answers were usually the same
they crossed ocean by rowing and that can be
do
there was no way there was no way to give
the jump
how did we get those sponsorships a
I was thinking later and it occurred to me
that I should look for someone
packaging sponsor something that
give true transcendence and without
have no idea of protocol
I sat down at the computer and started
write a letter to the prince at
Prince of Spain to his Royal Highness
today our king had no idea of
protocol but I sat down and started
to write
I told him that we were the first team
Chivas the Spanish speaking team that
I was going to row some are I explained that
we collaborate with the charity that
was dedicated to treating children with
cerebral palsy is to say the challenge was
not only sports but also
beneficial that gave us a double boosted
the double wish to keep going
because we help are the children that
they need a lot more than us and
I also reminded him that he does more than
500 years
Cristobal Colon asked the
sponsorship
Catholic kings
if there is that my daring should only
take well because a few weeks
we meet with your royal highness and
We received that sponsorship I did not
we could believe that easy
it seemed possible
everything was going to be winning everything was going
working now I had to find
a fellow rowing for a year
I asked all my friends when
I ran out of these to all my
known and I only had my
all enemies that everyone me
I said pedro no thanks
an afternoon in a meeting a person me
said Pedro
I know you’ve been looking for a year
rowing partner and has not found
rival that I make myself and that you know that if a
day arrives and you have not found
I will go with you and who was my mother
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bravo for the bravo mothers told me
He said
I do not row much, but I ‘ll do the
food there is nothing like a mother
luckily for her destiny
had a very pleasant surprise prepared
the afternoon at the fire station
adeje volunteers where we are
members asks a partner to
francisco korff a pancho I said yes
I wanted to do this challenge with me and I
he said is I think it’s a good idea since
had received so many is not during
so long that I did not believe it said
be sure
yeah yeah I think an excellent idea to me
he said with confidence that security that
it requires someone you’re going to put
your life in your hands
I hope he wanted to put his on
mine smart generous two
essential requirements to have a
partner to have a partner for
do something great and now we will
build the boat and on which boat it
cross an ocean you ask me is it a
boat made of marine sheet that
It is seven meters long and two meters
wide in four square meters a
space a little higher than this carpet
where am i talking
we must live together pancho me 24 6 months or
plus
this boat has everything
necessary to paddle oceans without
no kind of foreign aid has
solar panels that charge batteries that
in turn operate the desalination plant
that that produces water for us
hydrate to hydrate the food
in turn the batteries are not going to be
Useful for charging all devices
the cameras the radios and so on
etcetera etcetera is a boat
to row oceans we already had
practically everything and now what
it was xavi
they knew how to get a day like today
16 years
we are plethoric a sunny day by
in front of us we had 5,569 km
61 days 15 hours and 29 minutes and we are going to
paddle 20 hours 10 each the first
five weeks and 24 hours 12 each
in turns of two the last four
weeks
the speed at which we were crossing the
Atlantic was to walk four
kilometers per hour more or less like
walk
and is that if we had not said yes
this opportunity that gave me life
let’s not see for example navigated with
sperm whale paddling next to
these colossal of these mammals of
more than 20 meters
it was a unique show or not
we would have had the experience of
Leonid storms is rowing with the
fully black stellar vault painted
for hundreds of shooting stars were
undoubtedly the best two hours of all
the crossing or the liquid light when
for example at night things the remón
over the sea water and there are so many
millions of particles of plankton that
illuminate the whole environment or take with you
hands to bowl shape the water and shot
mine face
they are unique sensations that he gave us
this opportunity or the black bird that
bird that landed on the boat
and for hours he wanted to be with us
fantastic images or exact those
jumping tuna that while you paddle in
those on that occasion we did not look for
because they are
all the fish around and we go
paddling and those 200 kilos tuna
They jumped to our side with their mouths
open behind a weight of a fish
flying and will be awesome william
but of course not everything in life to be so
easy
there are real good and bad experiences or
imaginary one night
pancho tells me pedro we have a problem
I left the small cabin and in the distance
I saw a tanker and not an oil tanker but what
will happen and point
no it does not take an hour following it takes us
always a foreigner a tanker follows
now we
come total man we started rowing
We actually oil it was
following I could not believe
we looked at the course and the tanker
it was still us but well this is
unreal
I knew that that area was surrounded by
pirates but not patch pirates in the
eye and wooden leg of the movies do not
they are true heartless people who kill you
loot the boat flood in between
a tunnel effect in a tunnel vision
just see beautiful pirates killing us
in the next minutes the mouth
pasty dries the accelerated heart the
short breath we are going to
kill when we no longer had a few
meters
let’s hear the helisim imagine you a
Supertanker over 300 meters and
us 7
imagine the propeller for us
there I say not only we have paths
the radio to see what happens
we defend the vhf radio suddenly
we hear the voice of the zodiac zodiac captain
we have found you can now upload
board
you have water and food
I looked at Pancho, we owe it to him
it is impossible a total tanker to
we answer , do not do not worry
we are calmly paddling
america does not end there thing
the captain answers us calmly and
it happened everything we have rescued you in that
moment we realized that it
they thought that tanker we were about
shipwrecked that we are in a boat in
middle of the Atlantic and we continue paddling
but now came the problems and not
imaginary
the world organization of
meteorology never before had
cataloged hurricanes in the month of
December in the Caribbean as he did not have to
be the year 2001 that there were three three
hurricanes
while we are approaching
to the Caribbean we could not believe it
our bad luck that can not be
what will it look like if it was really during
One week we were surfing waves
more than 18 knots 18 knots for one
boat is to fly when you are in
the crest of the wave on the crest of the
death you only wish you had not embarked
Why do you say I do not know if I lose
perpendicularity did not take a south seat
Van Gogh leave me and I will swallow
injure or worse
Well, we passed the hurricane not without
We have left us a souvenir before us
it diverted 200 kilometers back towards
tenerife small memory left us the
hurricane we were already arriving on
hurricane was gone and it was not a
earth ground as Rodrigo said
triana in the tolo expedition was not
a radiance glow and blotch there
you see the city
from barbados we are happy plethoric
knowing that we were going to arrive and we’re going to
get alive
7.5 percent of the people who do
years have passed away or have disappeared
we are euphoric and we are going to get
alive but the next morning the
life put us on our site
on the radio
we started to hear an orange alert
of a tsunami a tsunami on the island of
Trinidad and Tobago was a submarine volcano
to explode the next hours
and we said so much to row for
die on the shore
but wide we have to do something
total that we started rowing the two and
finally a Dec. 7 at nine
quarter of the night we arrived in barbados
we arrived alive for me the most
happy of my life
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well now it is the birth of my
daughter who a few days ago has fulfilled a
year but good actually life
would have to give opportunities and you have to
take them or not to each one to her decide
but I’m catching them we would not have
could have the experiences of the
crossing meet wonderful people or
even as I said yes it came alive
wrote the book so many things that I
have allowed this this event is not that
is done is something that requires a lot
effort and you do not like it generates stress
but on the contrary if you do something that
even a simple one that requires a lot
effort and what you love generates passion and
That passion is what I want
convey because life is short
what we call we have nothing we ‘re going
knowing life is short and it ‘s a single
they look for at least that we make that
blow be happiness and if I stay with
one with only one learning of all this
history has not been to cross an ocean
rowing has been that I feel free to
choose the path that makes me happy
we should feel free to choose the
path that makes us happy thank you
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the laws
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