After meeting many salty sea dogs and assessing various ketches, schooners and sloops with our sailing sensei, Cap’n Giggles and I finally found, purchased, officially renamed, safety certified, registered and insured the sailing yacht now known as Kaxalot.
Read MoreAlongside earning our boating licenses, Evgeny and I conceived an idea to find, purchase, acquire, fix up, customize, christen, brand, berth and then sail our own boat. Realizing a mutual dream of freedom, adventure, creativity and fun, this whim slowly became a reality.
Read MoreSometime after moving to Spain, my good mate Evgeny and I hatched a plan to learn how to sail, earn ourselves watercraft licenses, buy, fix up, customize and berth an old sloop, then set sail for adventures upon the seas. Now, in 2022, that dream is becoming a reality.
Read MoreDuring the pandemic in late 2020, I received an offer to join a design team in Spain… and in March 2021, my partner and I moved from Berlin to Barcelona. That role didn’t exactly work out, but a referral did. Now, 1.5 years later, 38 has been my favourite year of life thus far, and as my old friend Jenn put it, I’ve “reached another form - not a new one, but the realization of one that was always there.”
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