Do you remember how it all began
Everything was for the first time and again
How the boats were built and the boats were called
Faith Hope Love
How the ropes were cut together
And the land went into the distance …
Back in 2016, while relaxing under palm trees on a lost Asian island and looking into the distance, Oleg saw a sail in the distance. It was the time of another life crisis and reassessment of values. Is everything supposed to be the way it is now? Constant routine and plowing, alternating with short glimpses of freedom on warm shores? The question came like a lightning bolt. Is it possible to live on a yacht? Here it is on the horizon whitens with a lonely sail. The Internet quickly gave the main answer: “POSSIBLE!”. This answer was followed by hundreds and even thousands of new questions. But all this no longer mattered. It was important what Marina thinks about this? And Marina answered: “Yes!”. The next five years turned into a path to this dream …
Surprisingly, looking back, everything turned out somehow timely and harmoniously. But at the time it was an amazing challenge. A challenge to everything – habitual life, inner consciousness and oneself, the world around, stereotypes, one’s wallet and one’s own egoism. “Well, everything is clear,” you say, “but where does selfishness come into play?”. Well, how about. Oleg has a prestigious management position, Marina has her own thriving business. This is a status that must be abandoned and abandoned in favor of swimming trunks and a slipper.
We started small and simple. Oleg made a financial analysis and it turned out that the purchase and maintenance of a yacht is very expensive in itself, and here you also have to live for something. How to implement it? In addition, the larger the yacht, the more expensive it is to buy and maintain. In addition, there are yachts, and there are catamarans, which are even more expensive than monohull yachts. Plus, you can buy newer, but it loses in price faster or older, but it is already in a different used state, respectively. Plus, there are cruise yachts, and there are sports yachts, and there are generally, for example, single-masted (sloop) or double-masted (for example, ketch). In general, a problem with hundreds of variables and unknowns, and in principle there is no correct answer, simply choosing the value of one variable, you limit yourself in choosing others.
Financial analysis showed that, in principle, buying and moving to a yacht is possible. But the only question is when. You can sail right now on a small 15-year-old 35-foot yacht with one cabin. But how long can a happy family live in such conditions is a question. You can buy a cool new catamaran 50 feet – but only after twenty years. But whether you will live and whether there will be health and desire at that time – those are still questions. In general, as always – those yesterday for 5 were well, sooo big, but yesterday …
We decided so – we work hard for five years and in five years, come what may. Whatever we can afford at that moment, we will realize. Well, here we go!
How would we describe these five years briefly? “Life on pause”. And to be more precise, something like this. Marina: Open 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Gets up at 10:00 and goes to bed at 24:00. Oleg: works 12 hours 6 days a week. Gets up at 6:00 and goes to bed at 21:00. That is, we see each other only one day a week, and then between the solution of accumulated personal issues. Not a family, but a fairy tale! They also managed to give birth to Nick 😻 which also made its own adjustments. Plus regular doubts and exclamations “Yes, what the hell do I need this for ?!” and “what kind of life is this ?!”, plus planning a future life, plus laying the foundation for passive income, plus getting rid of current things and rubbish, plus solving documentary issues in order to leave for a long time and not return, plus, plus, plus . In general … “life on pause.”
And indeed, now, in the fall of 2021, while in Greece, where we have looked after our catamaran and are processing the deal, we look back and see that everything turned out somehow in a timely and harmonious manner. And it is already beginning to be forgotten that sometimes it was necessary to hurt yourself in the blood in order to realize this dream. The path traveled is huge, and the experience gained is invaluable. And yes – we are happy, and we smile much more often than ever …