About us

Joaquín (“Ximo”) designed the boat Pangea and he built it with the help of his wife, Jane. Now, the two of them form the crew onboard.

Jane was born in a little village called Kapsara in the western part of Kenya. There, she did not have the sea or the ocean, but as a little girl, in the afternoon after school, she was usually sent to the fields to look after her family’s herd of sheep. Normally, as the flock grazed, she would lie down and gaze at the blue skies whilst listening to the buzzing of the bees.

At a time, the afternoon sun shining brightly would overwhelm her and so she would lower her gaze to the horizon. And as she contemplated the horizon, all the munching from the sheep, the buzzing of the bees and the heat from the sun would lull her into a deep sleep. And whilst she slept she would often find herself dreaming of the wonderful places beyond that horizon.

Unfortunately, a sheep would baa bringing her back to fields in Kapsara! However, even in her wakefulness she would still dream of those places and the day she would get to visit them. So when she got older, she saved enough money to go beyond her village’s horizon! She went to Mombasa. And for the first time in her life she saw the Ocean! And there she fell in love; with the ocean.

She had to leave her newfound love so as to go back to her native little village to complete her high school studies. It was not for long though. After three years, she went back to Mombasa- this time round for a long time. She studied her mass communication career there and found a job there too. And to her delight, she worked along the Indian ocean and so she would spend the free moments she had just sitting there and gazing at it or better say gazing at the horizon. And just like when she was a little girl she would wonder, “Just what’s there beyond that horizon?” Of course, by then she knew it was just Somalia! But that did not deter her from dreaming of going beyond that horizon too.

And so one day fate brought Joaquin and Jane together. He was from beyond the horizon and he had come to see her side of the horizon. When time came for him to go back, he invited her to see his side of the horizon and without haste, she said, yes! And when she got to his side of the horizon he suggested they see the other horizons beyond and now here they are, wandering beyond the horizons aboard Pangea.