Yesterday evening we said farewell to all the people from the boatyard, the Marina, the sailors pub and everyone who was involved in this project. Since Benjamin is the joy for many people it was quite emotional.
After a Raki with the boatyard owner we officially ended the refit. We shared some sailors stories and talked about the Atlantic...
2021-02-10 18:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The furler is working!!!! Yesterday it was blowing 42 knots of wind and it seems it will be less this afternoon. So...... SEA TRIAL!!!
We will be live on YouTube because this special moment we would love to share with our family, we will provide you the link around 12:00 CET.
Whaahooooooooooooo
2021-02-09 07:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear FtB Family,
Final stage of the Refit is there, we started saying farewell so some beautiful people we can call friends now. After six months here in the Marina it is definitely time to leave, as you know we are still not away yet. Just before our very first sea trial our furler motor got burned and we could not make it.
The s...
Sorry to disappoint you all! We can’t go live, no sea trail today!
The furler is showing problems and can’t be fixed today. Quite an essential part of our sailing boat 🤣 It looks like the engine is burned by heavy load. It will be send to a specialist in Izmir, fingers crossed that they can fix it! Still wondering how th...
2021-02-03 11:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally finally finally! We are almost ready for our sea trial. This Wednesday we will start the engine, drop the lines, hoist the sails, check, double check and check everything again to be sure everything is running fine and working so we can finally start our circumnavigation.
We would love if you can join us for a live session on YouTu...
2021-01-30 20:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post
What a week, it was definitely not smooth sailing 😂 but luckily we had big support from Pim, the professional captain who will drive Lilly back to the Netherlands. He learned us so many things and professional shipping is definitely not yachting.
This episode turned out to be a boys episode sharing some more in-depth knowledge about t...
Hello dear FtB family,
Finally we can start with the last big projects, we start with installing the Lithium batteries and make use of all the knowledge of the boatyard owner since he is circumnavigating as well.
It feels like renovating a house, start living in it when it's not finished while doing some big jobs. We want to enjoy ...
Dear FtB Family,
We received a lot of questions regarding, how do we do it and how you can create your lifestyle. To answer all these questions we decided to share our knowledge. So we created a free download regarding remote jobs and how you can make the first step towards your most preferred lifestyle. It all starts with being tot...
Dear FtB family,
Part 2 of our story about the purchase and loss of the Perfect Sense!
We started this week with the installation of the Lithium Batteries and the Navigational instruments, not an easy job rewiring everything. We lined up all the technical teams from the Netherlands, France and here in Turkey to make it happen, with ...
Dear FtB family,
Season 2! A year full of sailing and a perfect moment to share with you how the Perfect Sense came into Gerben's life and how he lost it. We start the season still in the Marina and have made the decision to fully enjoy it till the moment we set sail.
This week we finally received the Navigational Instruments so we ...
Dear Feel the Breeze Family,
This is Gerben and I would like to share a very special and life changing moment with you. Rianne gave me a final present to not only get me back on my feet but to play full out again. After saving me and the Perfect Sense after my bankruptcy in 2017. I went from very successful to completely down the drain wit...
2021-01-06 08:43:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear FtB Family,
First of all a very Happy New Year to all of you. We have two new members in the family, first Steve, he is from New York and loves driving his Landy especially on Times Square, we would love to see a picture of that. And we have Oliver, to be honest, we don't know anything about him yet but we figure out soo. Keeps such ...
Hi beautiful family,
We hope you have had an amazingly (probably also strange) Christmas filled with gratitude and love. As we are going towards the end of this year we wanted to share some light in our plans for you. But first....
Patrick we hope you are fine and we are so proud that you belong to our Feel the Breeze family and that...
2020-12-27 14:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear FtB family,
Episode 29, the first time for us really on the water and exploring. Still Benjamin steps and as promised yesterday, next season will be filled with sailing and beautiful bays, Our rough plan is start sailing in two weeks from now. First we will sail towards the south of Turkey for the coming cold months, it must be breath...
2020-12-25 16:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear FtB family,
From Turkey with love, Merry Christmas!
Gerben, Rianne & Benjamin
Hi FtB family,
Being a quartermaster was always my second nature but this one was totally unexpected. I found a real hidden gem in one of the valleys in Cappadocia and we created an amazing opportunity as a family.
The last two days now it's like Christmas onboard the Perfect Sense, we received our new sprayhood and bimini, the...
2020-12-18 18:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning beautiful FtB family,
Welcome to our final road trip with Lilly to magical Cappadocia, this place was on the bucket list for Rianne for years and I have to admit, it is amazing. By the way, all Turkey is beautiful, we had to drive 1100 kilometers from the Marina towards Cappadocia and saw the most beautiful sceneries with moun...
2020-12-13 07:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello beautiful FtB family,
Today we have no episode for you, we are still working on Episode 27 and it is almost finished. But....... We created a video regarding our Roadtrip from Amsterdam to Turkey. And later this weekend we take you with us to experience Magic Cappadocia with a 360 degrees video.
We love creating content a...
2020-12-11 18:46:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear FtB Family,
We have a floating Sailing Yacht again. We stepped the mast and all the elements of being a Sailing Yacht are there. From now on it's just finalising and then we are ready to set sail, to sail the world, to discover and live the life on our terms. Our most preferred lifestyle and we are very grateful you are part of our jo...
2020-12-04 20:31:52 +0000 UTC View PostDear FtB family,
We are looking forward to our first Q&A with you. We have been deep into travelling and boat work over the past few months and now we are almost ready to set sail. From all of you individually we received a lot of questions and we are feeling a bit disconnected from people and especially you guys, our true supporters f...
2020-11-27 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear FtB Family,
Over excited to be back in the water again. To almost have a home again after 11 months being on land. Will she float without water coming in? Will the engine starts and how would the antifouling holds whilst hanging in the slings.
Have fun watching the journey and let us know if you like it.
Talk soon ...
Hello beautiful family,
Friday evening, from Magic Cappadocia our new episode, number 24. In this episode we finally bring the Perfect Sense outside the hangar. She was inside for more than 8 months.
It was very emotional for me (Gerben), the Perfect Sense was my dream, I worked more than 10 years to purchase her end 2016 and just a...
Dear FtB Family,
From a pitch dark cold Turkey on top of a hill with Lilly we are finally able to upload this video. Sorry for the delay.
We are on our way to Cappadocia, final road trip with Lilly before we set sail. We are not alone. We drive together with Wendy de Boer, a dutch lady who is driving solo with her Toyota LandCruiser...
We had to wait for the caulking (waterproof filler between the teak) to dry so we decided to do a road trip to Istanbul. In Alacati we met an interesting man, he was there to learn surfing because he wanted to learn sailing and thought let's start with the basics. After our conversations he got ignited and started Feeling the Breeze, went for sa...
2020-11-06 16:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This is our very first brand deal with a special discount only for you, we believe in creating value and sharing it. More to come but first this one...
By becoming a fulltime father and sailor with a preference for sailing in warmer climates a good set of swimming shorts is a necessity. Preferably elegant, high quality and produced in a s...
It's a lot of sanding instead of sailing these days. Luckily we are making big progress on the Perfect Sense and made use of the opportunity to spend some days into the wild where we met an amazing Turkish family. Benjamin found his passion and got lost with his new friends....
We hope to start sailing soon, we are still in the Marina and ...
2020-10-30 20:46:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi gorgeous people,
New early access episode....one day later than normal....we are doing a 4 day virtual event of Tony Robbins - Unleash the Power Within, while repacking everything in the boat en totally forgot which day it was/is.....maybe a bit too much things going on, but we just wouldn't want to miss out of this life changing event....
2020-10-24 07:39:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi beautiful family,
Hope you are all doing well, thank you for your support. We finally moved into the Perfect Sense, slept like babies although it is still one big mess. Rianne made a paradise from our bedroom so we have a home again.
We still have some big projects before we can set sail, new sails, batteries, instruments and the...
Hello beautiful family,
Sitting underneath boat on the boatyard in the dark catching some Wifi and completely tired but we are so happy we can finally show you the Perfect Sense in our new video. Hope you are doing well.
Today we unpacked the Perfect Sense, dust everywhere from sanding the teak deck so it was time to clean everything...
2020-10-16 18:42:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello beautiful family,
Hope you are doing well, we have a new family member, his name is Bart and he and his girlfriend are from Amsterdam and thinking about to set sail as well. Yesterday we splashed the Perfect Sense into the water again and that was a very special moment. After all the hard work and nearly 11 months on the hard it was ...
2020-10-09 18:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post