Italian sailor and adventurer Vittorio Malingri arrived in Guadeloupe on Monday, 13 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes after leaving Dakar, Senegal.

He’d crossed the Atlantic alone, in a purpose-built 20 foot beach cat. “From a physical point of view, it was much less difficult than a leg on an around the world race in a larger boat,” Malingri told Latitude 38 upon reaching Guadeloupe. “Now I am going to sleep in a bed. See you later.”

“It was a wonderful experience regardless of the difficulties and problems that I encountered,” Malingri added. “The boat worked marvelously, apart from the problems I had with the solar panels that affected my energy supply and therefore the functioning of the automatic pilot and phones. The biggest problem is that I had to do everything with only one hand; with the automatic pilot out, my other hand was needed on the steering. At night, for short intervals, I tied off the rudder in order to rest.”