One of the most asked questions we receive and we decided to share our full story after a beautiful calm sail between the Kornati islands in Croatia.
We go for full transparency and share all our income streams via this Blogpost:
https://www.feelthebreeze.nl/post/how-we-finance-our-boat-life
And...... If you read carefully in the blogpost we soft launch our community...
2021-12-05 09:25:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Well we had our second mastermind sessions - this one was about how to start. You can rewatch the live session via link above and we wanted to throw in something extra (so therefor the little delay with sharing the link - and we downloaded and uploaded it to YouTube - because somehow the links in zoom don’t work).
We did a quick catch-up at the beginning, and then we took a deep dive into how we started. In the end it comes down to getting clarity on what your dream life looks like an...
2021-12-03 10:53:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Breezers,
The last month of 2021 will start tomorrow and what a better way to start this month with all of you. Tonight during our evening walk Rianne and I talked about which topic to highlight and we both said to each other: Let's pick the topic;
How to start? For us this was in 2017 and this picture symbolise everything.
We receive so many questions from all over the world regarding, I want to do what you are doing but don't know where to start. And we understand ...
Dear Breezers,
Nothing will stop us from Feeling the Breeze, from salt water inside the boat to high waves and dirty diesel. Even the Police in Croatia couldn't stop us.
Have a great Sunday and much love from us.
Benjamin, Rianne & Gerben
2021-11-28 16:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Breezers,
The moment we berthed in Porto Montenegro we went straight to Podgorica, the capital of the country. Our friend picked us up and arranged meetings with the State Secretary, the Minister of Economy and the Tourist Board.
We asked; What should we do with Benjamin during this meetings? His answer was; Benjamin is part of the family and he will attend all the meetings. No doubt about it! So Benjamin had already his first business meetings before he will turn 3 ne...
Dear Breezers,
Such a blast to saw you all during our last Zoom call on Monday, it feels the Feel the Breeze family is expanding, even without a brother or sister for Benjamin ;) I (Gerben) forgot to record the Zoom call so there is no replay unfortunately. The big news is for all we were not able to attend, we will NOT cross the Atlantic ocean this year but will start with our new project.
So just to be clear:
1: No new brother of sister for Benjamin
2: We will NOT cross t...
Dear Breezers,
We have something very exciting to share with you and only you. We can't wait to talk to you tomorrow evening at 20:00 CEST (details below)
Just dropped anchor after a very intense passage where we had to fight for the rig and the mast of the Perfect Sense, got escorted and fined by the Croatian Police, were not able to leave Croatia and enter Montenegro.
The world is getting crazier and we decided to become even more crazy ;)
See you tomorrow beautifu...
Dear Breezers,
A milestone we would love to celebrate with you, while sailing with the gennaker under full moon making 8.2 knots of speed we are very proud to share this video with all of you. This wasn't possible with the enormous amount of dedication and craftsmanship from Pedro, talking about craftsmanship.
When I saw Mirco I had to think about the following poem from John Chapman, it goes like this with a little bit of my own.
“Here's to the crazy ones. The m...
2021-11-19 21:32:23 +0000 UTC View PostDear Breezers,
As you know we want to step up the game regarding community building, lately we struggled a bit between all the platforms like YouTube, Patreon, Instagram, Zoom but one thing is for sure, you are the most important for us so always on number one.
If you have the opportunity please let us know about the subject we will discuss during our Live Q&A in December, otherwise we will pick one and you never know ;).
For January we already have a topic and we wi...
Dear Breezers,
This morning something beautiful happened and love to share it with you.
Have a great day and much love from us,
Benjamin, Rianne & Gerben
2021-11-19 13:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Breezers,
Can you imagine even more magic in Venice? We couldn't!
Till the moment more than 200 sailing boats entered Venice and prepared themselves for a sailing race from the Adriatic sea into Venice with the finish line in front of San Marco. Add a lot of sunshine, 200 spinakkers, some legendary sailing boats, from Maxi's to self build and even a former Whitbread racer.
After this race we were ready to leave magica...
Dear Breezers,
Winter is coming, we went from a water temperature of 14 degrees in the North of the Adriatic to 20 degrees in the Mid, so we are still swimming every morning.
Our last Live Q&A was a success, we had a lot of you attending, asking for the replay and we received some really nice messages about it. Thank you all!
Although it wasn't a real in-depth session about the topic how to quit we managed to touch it. Next to this we had a nice c...
Dear Breezers,
Venice is so much more than San Marco, the Rialto bridge and the gondola's so I decided to be the gondala of Rianne as a surprise for her belated birthday. Benjamin is already in the Christmas mood ;)
Thank you all and much love from us.
Benjamin, Rianne & Gerben
Thank you for joining this LIVE session new style, it was a pleasure to have you all onboard. All likeminded souls with a passion for sailing.
Here you can find the Replay:
https://zoom.us/rec/share/p9wCpVMOSKxhkjvauTGJAZ2TYGqmHHW9H_q8AFcx_FuK7lQWH06oVe-_S81_7WI.1qkClu_XrqjuMeVX?startTime=1635792631000
Acces...
Today we had our kick off for the Mentor Program and we are vey excited to talk to all of you. We face some strong winds now and tonight we will start sailing so lot's going on.
Looking forward to see you all.
Much love from us.
2021-11-01 17:43:39 +0000 UTC View PostDear Breezers,
Tomorrow we will have our Live Q&A and it will be one in our new style and the theme will be "How to Quit?". If you have the time please listen to the Podcast of Rianne regarding this topic and of course we will give you an update regarding our current position and "sailing" plans:
...
Dear Breezers,
It's been a year since we started sailing after the refit of the Perfect Sense and what a journey so far. We started with driving more than 5000 kilometers towards the Perfect Sense, did the refit, started sailing south along the Turkish coast , crossed Greece, sailed into Montenegro, criss crossed the Croatian islands and spent almost a month in Venice, the place where our dream was ignited back in 2017.
We still see ourselves as a business couple, sailing th...
2021-10-31 21:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Breezers,
Making dreams come true is our specialty and making other ones dreams a reality is our mission. Join us in this special episode where we sail into Venice with the Perfect Sense, almost into the Grand Canal. Four years ago we said to each other during a late evening walk in Venice, if we could ever sail the Perfect Sense over here, having the heavy storm ahead of us in mind, that would be amazing.
And now, WE DID IT, it was so special. For us this really feels ...
Dear Breezers,
This is kind of a special moment, the moment we sail out of Venice going south we share this video with you while we are sailing towards Venice. Venice has been a blast for us, we enjoyed every moment and will share this with you in the upcoming video's.
I (Gerben) received a lot of support regarding my talking piece about the court case and received many questions. Thank you! Unfortunately, the judgement was postponed again for the fourth time. This is kind of fr...
Dear Breezers,
Feeling the Breeze my .......... WoW, within seconds the circumstances changed from calm peaceful into scary, dark moments. Welcome to sailing life in autumn in the Northern Adriatic. The cold air from the mountains combined with the high sea temperatures creates interesting weather.
Join us to the former islands of Tito where he kept lions, elephants and zebra's he received as gifts during his time as the president of former Yugoslavia.
Thanks for watchin...
Dear Breezers,
Benjamin was created much faster than our very first FtB product but we are extremely proud to showcase The Breeze to you. We wanted to create something special, something that last a lifetime and is aging in a beautiful way. So we proudly introduce to you:
KEYCHAIN | The Breeze
A daily reminder to never stop chasing your dreams no matter what life throws at you. Every step, how big or small, is one step closer.
So you are the first and only ones wh...
Dear Breezers,
What to do if you are facing a situation where they will chain up your boat? Facing Red Tape and a lot of bullshit bingo.
When a direction is not working, we change approach and always try to outsmart the situation. That's our strategy. Will it work?
Join us in this episode, shooting a million dollar drone shot.
Have a great weekend, thanks for your support and talk to you soon regarding our new setup on Patreon.
Much love and Feel the Bree...
Dear Breezers,
hereby our final episode for this week, you already received the long version on Saturday but we decided to take the dinner with the Croatian family out, add an extra voiceover regarding gratitude and put the scene with the Croatian family in the next episode. So if you see this scene next week again, don't think anything is wrong with you ;)
Rianne and I have been brainstorming a lot the last days how to bring more value towards you as our Patrons and we have some...
Dear Breezers,
After the great Live Q&A yesterday we are delighted to share our new episode with you. We found a great sailing boat with a fantastic family, gained some proper knowledge of family building and found a fantastic place where we stayed much too long but enjoyed the calmness of slowing down.
Have a great weekend and much love from Venice.
Gerben, Rianne & Benjamin
2021-10-02 14:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello Breezers,
What a blast to have a Live Q&A in this way, for us it was a big success and so great to see and interact with you directly via Zoom.
It was such a pleasure and you have given us great input for the next phase for our Patreon plan, we will start focussing more on mindset, business and (sailing) lifestyle and will share more about how to achieve this kind of lifestyle and freedom.
As discussed, we are a bit struggling with Patreon becaus... 2021-10-01 21:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Breezers,
Tonight we will go live from Venice, this time via ZOOM, this was suggested by one of you in our last Live Q&A so we thought let's give it a try. Hope to see you all tonight, please find below all the details to attend the call.
Much love from us.
Join Zoom Meeting Tonight:
https://zoom.us/j/96922622649?pwd=WUNzakJuWHdYWmZvZi91UjZqZjU2dz09<...
2021-10-01 16:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Breezers,
Venice it is, we had an amazing sail towards Venice, felt like the Doldrums ;) Luckily we had a warm welcome and Benjamin decided to become the new James Bond and Rianne is training to become a Bond girl.
So what should I do? Let’s have a great talk with you this Friday, at 20:00 CEST we have our Live Q&A where we talk about our experiences in Croatia, our sailing plans this year and how we see the future.
If you have any questions please let us know be...
2021-09-27 20:51:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dragons eye & intuition
Last month we went out of our comfort zone - pushed our own boundaries, and it has everything to do with intuition and the Dragons Eye of Croatia.
If you have seen our newest episode, you know I (Rianne) practiced synchronize swimming for years but stopped ad the age of 21. I was pretty good at keeping my breath and swimming underwater. Unfortunately, I choose not to keep this up, and since we live on the sea, I would love to be good at free diving and ...
2021-09-24 18:20:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Breezers,
No it's not Friday, still Thursday but we just finished our newest episode and couldn't wait to share it with all of you, our Feel the Breeze Family who is expanding more and more with likeminded people, we are very grateful for your support and being part of the movement to spread some more Breeze in the world. Slowly we are getting up to production speed again and our goal is to have enough footage during our Atlantic Crossing, the European Summer is over ;)
We t...
Dobar dan Breezers,
Today we would love to take you with us from the island of Vis towards Split with an overnight stop on the island Brac where we found an old submarine base with some strange nocturnal movements. Where we crashed the drone and cleaned the Finsulate for the first time after 9 months.
This is the last Vlog with Pedro onboard here in Croatia. He left us after 8 amazing days. With him onboard we have more gear to choose from, the eye of a professional and an extra ...