Draft:Álvaro de Marichalar

Álvaro de Marichalar Sáenz de Tejada (born April 25, 1961) is a Spanish aristocrat, entrepreneur and explorer. He holds the Guinness Record for fastest crossing of the Atlantic by personal watercraft.

Biography
Born in Pamplona, Navarra, in 1961, he was an aviation pilot and served for two years at the  Ejército del Aire, but a  car accident forced him to drop his aeronautic career as a pilot. Studied business administration in Florida. Bussinessman of the real state sector and telecomunications, founded in https://www.hola.com/biografias/alvaro-de-marichalar/ 1984] TeleSat, pionneer company in the parabolic communication antennas in Spain. In 1986 started another company pionnering the movil phone bussiness. Alvaro de Marichalar is an numbered Academic of the Real Academia de la Mar (founded at 2005 by the Army officer José Ventura Olaguibel).

Over the last 30 years he has realized 39 marine expeditions, all aboard small personal watercraft


 * 2006: Hong Kong-Tokio ( commemorating the V centenary of Saint Francis Javier birth)
 * 2016: Caribbean (for the V centenary of the Florida-Pacific discovery). Homenaje a Blas de Lezo por los 325 años de su natalicio.
 * 2013: Puerto Rico-Florida
 * 2004: Formentera-Odesa  (honoring the founder of  Odesa, the Spanish sailor José de Ribas)
 * 2002: Rome-New York in 2002 ( for the V centenary of the fourth and last voyage of Christopher Columbus a América). For this expedition received the Guinness Record for crossing the Atlantic on a personal watercraft 17 days, 1 hour y 11 minutes.
 * 2002: Paris-Dover-London, world record for the first solo journey on a personal watercraft
 * 2000: Panama Canal, (Puerto Colón-Isla de Contadora) solo journey.
 * 1999: Mallorca-Cerdeña-Mallorca-Puerto Portals-Porto Cervo-Porto Portals, 800 nautical miles.
 * 1999: Porto-Cervo-Puerto Portals: 400 nautical miles nonstop, World record for nonstop travel. Mahón-Alghero: 200 nautical miles whitout scales or reaching the coast. World record for open sea distance navigation.
 * 1994: San Sebastían-Baleares-Cadaques (Conmemorating the Treaty of Tordesillas) World record 2,000 nautical miles.
 * 1993: Sevilla-Génova, solitary navigation, 1350 nautical miles, World record.,
 * 1992: Ibiza-Mallorca, Open sea distance, world record.

Now he is on the expedition commemorating the Vth Centenary of the first world circunnavegation by Fernando de Magallanes y Juan Sebastián Elcano. and he is doing it now in the personal watercraft, being the smallest vessel to achieve this feat.