The Spanish businessman, winner of a Guinness record for crossing the Atlantic with his aquatic motorcycle, offered a motivational talk in the Boys’ Town during his stay in Costa Rica, coming from Nicaragua and in route to Panama.
For three years, the Spanish businessman Álvaro de Marichalar has carried out the first around the world aboard the smallest boat (2.5 meters, a jet ski) that I have never made this journey, as a tribute to the fifth centenary of the first circumnavigation of the planet by Fernando de Magallanes and Juan Sebastián Elcano.
During the month of March he has passed through Costa Rica, coming from Nicaragua and on his way to Panama. And within various acts and social events in the country, the Spanish businessman has wanted to visit the Boys’ Town, a socio-educational center of the Augustinian Recollects that offers a comprehensive education to its half a thousand students.
The adventurer wanted to motivate young people to pursue all their dreams, continue their studies and understand their own ability to forge their future, while he raised awareness about the complicated situation of the seas and oceans due to pollution and neglect of the Nature.
At the end of the talk, many of the young students wanted to ask him for further advice. individuals, others wanted autographs or to know some of the details of the adventure of cross the entire world aboard a jet ski.
Before leaving for Panama, he sent a video message: “To all the boys in the Boys’ Town: How I liked being here with you! Here you have the boat, soon I am leaving Costa Rica, but I am leaving with your memory, your energy, your strength and your great inspiration. Good bye!”.
Álvaro de Marichalar (Pamplona, Navarra, Spain, 1961) is a member of the Royal Academy of Sea and since 1992 he has carried out more than 39 maritime expeditions with his jet ski, such as Hong Kong-Tokyo, Caribbean, Puerto Rico-Florida, Formentera-Odesa, Rome-New York (he crossed the Atlantic in 17 days, one hour and eleven minutes, setting the Guinness Record for fastest crossing of this ocean in a boat), Paris-Dover-London, Puerto Colón-Isla de Contadora and several more in the Mediterranean and other seas.
He arrived in Costa Rica entering Puerto Limón, after eleven hours of continuous navigation from El Bluff (Nicaragua). His boat, Numancia, was then taken to San José to get it repaired. Later it was exhibited at Expomóvil in San Jose, the capital city of the country. Later it was taken back to Puerto Limón, to the same point from which it had been taken out of the sea, to continue the trip to Panama.
