Alessio is the quietest and most talented boat captain I have ever sailed with. He docks and anchors with the same discretion with which he moves around the boat and interacts with us. You barely notice everything he does, because he does it so well.
It was very difficult for me to ask him if I could photograph him. I knew it meant a certain intrusion into the privacy that his professionalism so carefully protects.
He is 30 years old, half Sicilian and half Sardinian. He was teaching sailing at sixteen and is now an expert in wing foiling, a sport similar to windsurfing in which the body takes the place of the sail’s mast.
I don’t know how it happened, but one day he confessed to me that he doesn’t miss home because his home is the sea.