Some people are born to sail. Like Alberto Mir (Barcelona, 1968). Although he studied economics, he couldn't stop thinking about the sea. “When we were little, we used to sail at the Real Club Nàutic de Barcelona, with some wooden optimists. My parents already sailed and my grandfather participated in the dragon class in the Rome Olympic Games of 1960 – he recalls–. I studied economics and had a job at La Caixa. But I wanted to sail around the world. I looked at the map and had a great desire to do it”. And so it was: sailing would be his life. He would look for jobs taking care of boats or moving them from port for many years. And now he is a ship captain and has sailed around the world a few times. Trained at the English Royal Yachting Association, he has helped many people sail around the world. He knows all the coasts, all the seas, and accumulates experiences and anecdotes. The most special, however, was sailing by sailboat to Antarctica, an experience he recounts in the book La Antártida a vela (Nova Casa Editorial, 2026).