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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
A photo of our first year sailing as a family. This was before we started with YouTube. A test sail of 7 months to see if the lifestyle was for us. today we share our full story from leaving the rat race up until today. Join us in Premiere and chat with us live.
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Hi everyone, today, a message to all our fellow cruisers. We could use your help with 3 minutes of your time to fill in this survey (riannehottina.typeform.com/to/wKrPEPL9). As the entrepreneurial spirit we have, we are currently exploring the opportunities of a business concept that we have in mind for quite a while now, and the time has come to explore if we want to take it a step further.
So your input will be very valuable to us.
Just follow the link below and please do share with others that you know who live or stay on a boat every year.
riannehottina.typeform.com/to/wKrPEPL9
Love,
us
PS: It doesn't look like Benjamin loves this idea 🤣🤩
This is a picture we took directly after we sailed for the first time into Montenegro almost 2 years ago.
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We are BACK on the Tube, now with the four of us (https://youtu.be/q7EhJHy8L3c); after three months of not posting videos, we can honestly say we missed it and are looking forward to catching up with all of you. This time is not about sailing, boatjobs, off road adventures with Lilly but a raw and honest birthing vlog with some adventures of Gerben and Benjamin to kill the cocooning time because Eleanora decided to stay a bit longer than planned ;)
This Vlog was by far the hardest one to produce, not only for me but also for Pedro our editor, he had to watch all the RAW footage and as a future father we could only say.... Respect and thank you for creating this precious video together with us and you know, preparation is key ;)
Join us in the journey of a lifetime and our new baby born Eleanora.
Much love from all of us!
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It is official, we are a family of 4! Welcome, Eleanora.
Everyone is doing fine and we can't wait to introduce her to our sailing home!
Love and hugs,
From all of us
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ABSOLUTE CLARITY
a story about sailing, mist and having no clarity
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Lately, our nights have been broken. There is something to having a newborn in your family.
And it is different with having a second one.
But one of the things I (Rianne) enjoy is seeing the nights here in the Netherlands at different times.
Eleanora (a bit more than 2 weeks old now) doesn't have a strict schedule yet with breastfeeding. So we wake up at different times during the night, every night.
We get to see how the night evolves, how it can bring deep darkness with clouds covering the stars, or moonly bright when is a full moon and no cloud insight, or without a moon shimmering stars that light up the sky.
But last night was different.
I haven't seen such a night yet. It was misty, quite early in the night, but not the typical kind of mist, but that dreamy, scary kind.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Those mists you see in thriller ghost movies, on cemeteries, and when things usually go wrong?
It reminded me of one sail we had in 2017.
My first year sailing, relatively inexperienced, I had no idea what kind of weather conditions to be expected at sea.
It was my very second-night sail, the sky was clear, and we had almost a full moon.
And night sails are something special and one of my favorite things in the world - if the weather is right.
And this time, it was, at least most of the time.
The most remarkable part of these nights is seeing the Milkyway out on the open ocean - something we never get to catch on camera - but it is just magical.
We had little to no waves, beautiful winds of 15-20 knots, and our sailing yacht, Perfect Sense, was gliding through the waves without making any sounds.
The moon lit up our white sails, and I had never seen so many stars or such a Milkyway.
Which honestly is a pebble road in the sky.
We sailed through the night to get into one of those mesmerizing secluded bays in Halkidiki, Greece, in the early morning.
It was one of those sails out of the books, and we felt we were on top of the world, alone in our little bubble with just the two of us.
It was the beginning of autumn, but still pretty warm in Greece, and the sky started lighting up around 5 in the morning.
We were almost at the bay and couldn't wait to drop anchor to get some proper sleep.
In those days when we didn't have kids, we did the night shifts on short crossings together, and with such a perfect night as this one, we didn't get any sleep.
We were too busy spending most of our time on deck looking at the stars and being amazed by our white sails lit up by the moon and how silently we were sliding forwards.
Those were the moments we spent talking about our dreams, how fortunate we are, and how beautiful life and nature is.
Some of my best memories of us as a sailing couple with no kids.
But that memory got a little dreary when the sun was about to come up.
Around 5:30 AM, it was getting brighter at sea, and we could see land ahead. At that moment, a week before, we had an indirect lightning strike and no working instruments. We were sailing on our sights, senses, and maps on our iPhones.
We were excited. It was almost time to drop anchor and have some sleep.
But then we looked back and noticed this white wall from the open sea coming straight at us. It was almost unreal. A mist wall like we had never seen before.
It felt like we were in one of those Jack Sparrow movies.
We thought we could make it in time to the bay and be safe, be able to drop anchor with sight.....but oh boy, we were wrong.
The mist caught up on us in minutes, and we could barely see the lights on our bow.
We realized we had two options, keep on sailing, or drop anchor blindly with only our GPS maps on our phones.
Both options were scary as hell.
And if you know this part of Greece, you also know that there can be surprise rocks in bays that do not appear on any maps.
We still decided to approach the bay.
Slowly we moved closer, the bay wasn't that wide, but still, we couldn't see the sides.
So we focused on our maps on our phones, trusted our GPS, and slowly moved increasingly into the bay.
We didn't know if there would be any other boats around, so we stayed at the back of the bay and figured, being off-season and not coming across any boats at all, if there were other boats, it would only be one.
But still, we decided to be extra cautious.
On the map, it looked like we were inside at the back of the bay and that we could drop anchor.
So we did.
We dropped enough anchor chain, but not too much, as we didn't want to come too close to the sides of the bay.
We set our anchor.
We stayed up for a while, but the mist wasn't going anywhere, and eventually, we gave in to get some sleep.
But we didn't sleep well. We were unsettled because we had no clarity on where we dropped anchor, how closed the sides of the bay would be, and if we would come close to any other boats.
So 2 hours later, we woke up, the mist cleared up.....and finally, we could see where we were.
No other boats, and miles away from land. We were at the end of the bay, or more precisely, at open sea.
This is what clarity does. If you do not have clarity on where you need to go, you can end up at places you never wanted to be, even when, at first sight, they look close enough.
Without clarity, life will lead you instead of you directing your life.
Clarity makes that you are in the driver's seat of your life, and precisely that is what we are doing within our Mentor Program (feel-the-breeze-mindset.teachable.com/p/mentorprog….
We start with knowing your starting point and where the gaps are and help you get absolute clarity on your truest desires. 3 essential steps of lifestyle design.
We will work on breaking down your conditioning, conditioning of:
- what is considered normal
- what others expect of you
- what is defined as success
- what is or is not possible
- what you can or cannot achieve
- etc.
Together we look at what you truly desire and how you can get there.
Without having absolute clarity on where you are and where you want to go, chances are you end up in the open sea instead of safely tucked away in a paradise bay.
Join our Mentor Program today for € 1790 ex VAT
6 months of guidance and making your desired life a reality
feel-the-breeze-mindset.teachable.com/p/mentorprog…
Until the next one!
Rianne
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New VLOG (https://youtu.be/NnhSD1Y6B4M) AND YES AGAIN, a thumbnail with bikini - It is actually my favorite outfit, and I'm blessed to be able to go to work dressed like this.....and let's be fair 40°C + 34 weeks pregnant can you blame me for going around in my swimwear all day long ;)
Join us in a new adventure of our sailing family life with quite a surprising ending - which we will share in our next vlog.
THE reason why we haven't posted every week - sorry! To be honest, we miss it as well. So we will be back sooner rather than later.
Thanks for joining us every week (even when we miss a beat like last weeks).
You are all great and loving,
Have an amazing day,
Hugs from the FAM
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Hi everyone, You probably noticed that we didn’t publish a video this week. And thanks for all the messages if we are alright! We are, but a family member isn’t.
So we decided to go to the Netherlands and be there for them. We changed course 180 degrees, in a few hours, but as you know us, we are getting expert at this stuff 🤣
We will do less videos until we are back on the Perfect Sense again.
We recorded a podcast where we share a bit more about what is going on.
You can listen it here:
www.feelthebreeze.nl/podcast
Thanks for all the love, always!
Big hug from the family
Rianne
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WE have a new episode, how life is in Porto Montenegro and what our newest dream is https://youtu.be/_gD1Be7TMFQ You can call us crazy, and that is probably what we are ;)
Have a great day,
hugs from the fam
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WHAT WE DO NEXT TO SAILING (https://youtu.be/_QHuzRrFDEQ) OUR MAIN INCOME STREAM
We give you INSIGHT into our main INCOME STREAM while we are sailing. Something we usually don't do - our sailing retreat. Join us in this episode where we take you from the preparations: of boat jobs to the actually sailing and business and lifestyle coaching experience. We intertwined our family sailing life with our coaching business. We are quite ambitious in being successful in life, which means having business and life goals that are more than only sailing around the world. Join us in this sailing retreat in Montenegro filled with sailing adventure, live-aboard life, business, and personal growth.
Join us to see what is possible!
Hugs from the fam!
PS: want to take it a step further? Join our online mini-retreat: feel-the-breeze-mindset.teachable.com/p/create-mor…
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We are Rianne and Gerben
We travel around the world with our boy Benjamin and a little one on the way. Currently, we are in Montenegro. This will be our home base for a year as we have a big project to run in this beautiful country and some other business opportunities we want to pursue
Join our family adventures...
Current postal address:
Marina Office - Feel the Breeze family
Obala bb
85320 Tivat
Montenegro