“And then? How the hell do you end up with a second sailboat” I can almost hear you thinking. 

Well, whenever you indulge in living on a sail yacht you start to have an increased interest in every piece of information available. So I dove into every website, forum, book ánd boat marketplace out there. And I probably shouldn’t have done that last part.. Because then, one day, I came across a very nice looking, well-priced sail yacht in Greece. A study pal of mine tipped it of it to me and his own brother was the selling broker. That sounded trustworthy, so I thought: why not learn a little more. I was already reading a lot about boats, planning sailing courses and expanding your sailing network. Why not try to find out more about how it goes with larger boats and maybe even get to know this experienced sailing guy selling the boat. “And nothing more than that, Dickie” I said to myself.

I figured that if I would offer well below 25% of the asking price, the owner wouldn’t agree or someone else would surely offer more. Just so that I would just learn from the experience. In the worst case scenario I would just withdraw my offer and let it be. Luckily the owner of the boat didn’t agree with my offer, but he did make a counteroffer. I declined and told him I already had a boat and this would be a totally new adventure and so it would take me a lot of effort to organize, so I wouldn’t go up in my offer. He lowered again. Even to a point where I thought that this was a very nice counteroffer and that this might seem interesting after all. But I kept my word and stuck to my intention. Three weeks later he called me and said the owner gave it a thorough thought and it was a deal for my initial offer… literally -  I thought - … I AM FVCKED! And now what?’

One restless night and a lot of pondering gave me the answer. FVCK YEAH, let’s try to make this work. What do I need in order to build this dream and make it a success? Every morning between 6 and 9 I wrote an ‘investment pitch' and a business case for the boat. I pitched it to some of my friends and some relevant people in my network and thus found investors among my 3 F’s (friends, family and fools). So after that was settled, Veni, Vidi, Vici. But more on that in the blogs of my ‘Bottled Posts’.