On 3 October 2019 Nanni Acquarone became the first Italian skipper with the Italian cutter "Best Explorer" to sail both Northwest Passage in 2012 and Northeast Passage with a sailboat clockwise. Best Explorer started the 1st of June 2012 from Tromsø (Norway) sailing the Northwest Passage (first Italian boat and Italian skipper) and after several years of sailing in the Pacific got the permission to follow the Northeast Passage without assistance and without a Russian on board with a crew of 5, including Salvatore Magri who sailed the Northwest Passage with Nanni. In 2019 Best Explorer left Petropavlovsk Kamchatski on August 3rd and crossed the Bering Strait on 19 August reaching Murmansk on 22 September.