Thank you. Five hundred times thank you. I can only start like this after seeing my Youtube channel quickly exceed the threshold of 500 subscribers. A special goal, which fills my heart and above all photographs the enormous interest of the public towards my proposal. When at the end of May 2022 I decided – after an adequate period of programming and preparation – to delete the few videos I had uploaded since 2013 and to start with a new video project, I had 15 subscribers on the channel. In practice, zero. At the beginning of July I reached 100, three weeks later at 200 and on August 13 at 300. In particular, in the initial phase to drive the registrations was the appreciated video dedicated to the story of Pietro Vassena and the submarine C3 (here the article). In mid-November the channel had a second, very strong impulse thanks to a new video I worked on: the story of Dario Noseda and his extraordinary crossing of the Atlantic Ocean aboard a Star, the narrowest boat of all usually used for short races (once also at the Olympics).I chose to retrace together with the Piedmontese sailor (long adopted by Lecco) an enterprise that immediately became history. And I thank him for answering my questions directly from a boat in the middle of the sea; After all, he is a sailor to the core and has made this mini-documentary even more realistic (complete with original footage from his "diaries" on board). The video hit the mark, grinding more than 20 thousand views in just two weeks, bringing the subscribers to 400 and, after only one week, over 500. The channel is rapidly expanding and aims decisively at the fateful threshold of 1,000, beyond which lies the possibility of monetizing and turning this passion – telling stories in video format – a small job to be included in my portfolio. To raise the level and quality even more, to reach a growing number of people.
The enterprise of Dario Noseda
On November 11, 2017, Dario Noseda set sail from Tenerife, Spain, to cross the Atlantic Ocean. A feat that many have tried, but few on small boats, and no one ever with a Star, a former Olympic class boat only one and a half meters wide. Dario's journey is something epic: for 33 days he remains alone in the open ocean, facing a thousand dangers and problems: he accuses a failure of the electrical system and is forced to stop in Cape Verde to fix it, he is thrown into the water by a storm. None of this, however, stops him. And the mission is accomplished, albeit with a thrilling ending: his "Pa2sh" crashes on the rocks in Santa Lucia, an islet near Martinique. This will remain the final destination of his long journey to the originally planned place of Nassau, Bahamas. Noseda travels in total, from Tenerife to Saint Lucia to the Caribbean, about 2,600 nautical miles, becoming the first to make the crossing on such a small boat. "It's me, it's me, it's alive! I was shipwrecked, I walked for I don't know how much and now I'm here at the Rodney Bay marina, I personally notified the captaincy" are the first words that Noseda pronounces on the phone to his family who follow the company on the other side of the world. Words that are immediately consigned to history.