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Boat Life Reality Check: When Osmosis Derails Your Plans (But Teaches You More)

Boat Life Reality Check: When Osmosis Derails Your Plans (But Teaches You More)

by SAILING ANIMA | Apr 16, 2025 | ADVENTURE

April 2, 2025: When Osmosis Derails Dreams (But Builds Character) The Plan That Wasn’t This week delivered a brutal reality check. My simple “haul out, paint, and sail away” fantasy collided with the truth: my hull is a waterlogged sponge. Humidity...
Staub, Diesel und salzige Freiheit – mein erster Tag auf dem neuen Boot

Staub, Diesel und salzige Freiheit – mein erster Tag auf dem neuen Boot

by SAILING ANIMA | Apr 10, 2025 | SY ANIMA DEUTSCH

War alles zu viel Euphorie?   Kaum auf Bonaire angekommen, ging es zuerst in meine Unterkunft – zwei Nächte sollten reichen, dachte ich. Zwei Tage, um das Boot flott zu machen und drauf schlafen zu können.Na ja… das war wohl etwas zu euphorisch gedacht. Ich...
Solo Sailing Adventure: No Autopilot, No Electronics – Just Pure Seamanship!

Solo Sailing Adventure: No Autopilot, No Electronics – Just Pure Seamanship!

by SAILING ANIMA | Apr 4, 2025 | ADVENTURE

March 26, 2025: A Wild Ride to Curaçao – Engine-Only, No Electronics! The Dramatic Departure Docked bow-first into howling winds, tangled lines wrapped around unforgiving poles—not exactly the smooth exit I’d imagined. Thanks to a kind dockworker’s help, I freed the...
Resurrecting a Forgotten Sailboat: My Ambitious Journey from “Bowalie” to “ANIMA”

Resurrecting a Forgotten Sailboat: My Ambitious Journey from “Bowalie” to “ANIMA”

by SAILING ANIMA | Mar 28, 2025 | ADVENTURE

March 13, 2025 – A New Beginning Under a Lunar Eclipse The Backstory: How It All Started In February 2025, I sold my car rental company in Curaçao and set my sights on a new adventure. Little did I know, fate had other plans—and they involved a neglected sailboat...
Resurrecting a Forgotten Sailboat: My Ambitious Journey from “Bowalie” to “ANIMA”

Vom Traum zur Wirklichkeit – Mein Weg zum eigenen Segelboot in der Karibik

by SAILING ANIMA | Mar 27, 2025 | SY ANIMA DEUTSCH

Ein lang ersehnter Lebenstraum.   Viele Jahre lang trug ich diesen Traum in mir: eines Tages mit meinem eigenen Schiff durch die Karibik und vielleicht sogar um die ganze Welt zu segeln. Als ich 2008 zum ersten Mal in die Karibik reiste – damals nach Kuba – war...
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