Going home with new ideas

After a few weeks of sailingwith my friends on their beautiful Katamaran, I am flying home with quite a lot of strenght and an enormous amount of new found ideas. The other day I made a list of things, Ahava would need to safely sail me to the Mediterranean sea, and have noticed, that all the things she is missing, cost as much, as a new boat. So I started looking ....Ahava isn't gonna like my new plan. But I fell in love. With another boat and the idea of having space for everyone and everything I love.

I found her on a boat website and am flying home a little earlier than planned, to take a look at her. As I haven't seen her in real life yet. But if she is just half as pretty, as she seems to be, I might have found a boat, that will sail me around the world.

She checks all the things I told myself I would need to make myself feel safe and happy. I don't need a lot of luxery...But having a stove, to bake my own bread while in the middle of the ocean, sounds quite nice and a fridge, space to take my loved ones with me. And all these safety measures.

Shore connection Inverters Fire extinguisher anchor Bow anchor winch Liferaft Solar system compass GPS Autopilot Wind control system VHF radio radar Radar reflector Chartplotter Anemometer Depth gauge Speedometer AIS EPIRB oven sink Refrigerator gas stove Heating most of these things can mean the difference between life and death, some are just for a feeling of home (like a stove, you don't really need that aboard, but imagine the smell of freshly baked apple pie, while sailing the Atlantic) So here I am, looking at the pictures of a boat that doesn't just have all these things, but she also is just extremly beautiful. So many little details in her, that make me smile. I can't wait to meet her in real life and I really do hope, I can go see her, with open eyes and not too much will, to buy her. Because all boats have some problems and I really can't overlook them, just because I am in love. So here I am, sitting in the airport of Athens, dreaming of a boat I have never seen before. Feeling like I am cheating on Ahava already. I will find her a beautiful home though, I am sure of it. She has taught me so so very much over the last couple of years, it is time for her to teach someone else now.