Family SELLS EVERYTHING To Travel The World by Sailboat and Defender
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- THE BEGINNING: Family SELLS EVERYTHING To Travel The World by Sailboat and Defender. We never thought we would write this down, especially not after the bankruptcy. But we are doing it. We are from now on a full-time travel family that embarks on this journey to discover the world, to live the life of our dreams - for now exploring the world by sailing yacht and defender. Not your typical travel vlog, or sailing vlog for that matter.
In this video we introduce ourselves and tell you about what brought us up to the point that we decided to live the life of our dreams. Last year we sailed 8 months in the Med on our sailing yacht Perfect Sense. Now we are selling all our belongings including our house and become full time live aboard.
Hope you will enjoy this episode of or sailing family vlog.
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You´re great!! Including Bejamin..... he´s sooooo sweet!!!
Thanks Olaf... very sweet of you
Exciting story! Overcoming and perseverance. Happy Easter Breeze family. God bless you.
Thank you Matheus, that’s exactly it, changing approach and go again. Happy Easter to you too and it’s a bless to have you onboard our journey 💙
Love your story of perseverance and reinventing your lives.
Thank you Velocità, that’s so nice to hear and living on our terms and sharing this is our passion. Great you love it 😍
My husband and I are just starting out on our adventure to live the same kind of life where we can be free and not tied down. Your videos are great! Hope to be as successful as you and the la vagabonds!
Katrina Gipson oh amazing guys and of course you will be!!! Just keep going, focus and enjoy the ride. It isn’t easy and there will be times you just want to give up....always find new ways to keep going....there are always opportunities. You will make it 🤗 And to be honest, we aren’t there yet either....think we are half way 🤣 but convinced we will get there 🤩🤗
.You definitely have another subscriber. I am a perennial entrepreneur. And sailor. And live on the Atlantic. But not on a boat. Really enjoy the editing skills that you have in documenting your journey. I will have to check out Patreon, too. Take care and fair winds and following seas! From Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Whoooohoooo a new subscriber, jackpot! Entrepreneur, sailor and living on the Atlantic, what else can we wish? 🤩 thanks for subscribing and your wonderful message. Regarding the editing all credits for our editor Pedro. We teamed up from the start and we became a good team like family, essential as you know as an entrepreneur. Seems we are getting more and more subscribers from Nova Scotia, Canada. Maybe it’s a sign to sail towards you. Have a great day. Rianne, Gerben & Benjamin
great life story... wish you 3 all the best luck, also with your epic travel to your dream ship, stay SAFE!
Marcel Schutte thank you! We will do everything we can to stay safe while exploring! And yes it will be something epic to get to the boat now huh? We will start probably in a week....super excited. Wishing you all the best!
Love your story as individuals and as a family
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Much love from all of us ❤️
Hi..I have just watched some of your videos and highly Felt the Breeze :-) I live in Izmir, Turkey, and an amateur sailor. I especially influenced your life story, (cancer, bankrupting :-( ). I will continue to watch all of your videos. I wish you live in happiness along your life with your family...
Merhaba Zafira, thanks for Feeling the Breeze. You put a big smile on our faces and we are grateful we are able to inspire you a bit that everything is possible even or just after major setbacks. We wish you and your family all the best. Much love from us 💙
Love the story the three of you are sharing. Can’t wait for your future travels, brave to cross the Atlantic with Benjamin. #followyourdreams
Dutch Nomad Couple thanks guys, we are on the road again and will start watching your vids this evening, can’t wait :) And really glad we met online, would be so nice to meet each other somewhere on this amazing planet 🤩🤗
@@FeeltheBreeze I'm sure we 'll meet one day soon!
Feel the breeze family. You guys are top class. Your fashion, passion and video production quality is perfect. See you at 100k subs 👍
Honest Travel thanks guys!!! You are amazing 💙
Can't wait to see more of this!! Have a safe journey 💛
El Millington thank you so much | love that you are following us 🤩 we are still getting use to vlogging and definitely not where we would like to be hahahaha, but we try to upload a video every month and even work towards once or even twice a week 🤗
@@FeeltheBreeze well you've definitely made an amazing start!! You're taking on such a brilliant and inspiring journey x
Oh thank you El! To be honest it is not easy from time to time and especially with these crazy pandemic...but we trust our intuition, common sense and the goodness of people around us. Would you love to travel as well?
Following every step (wave)! Can’t wait :-)... love this!
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What an epic start ! I loved the video and I can't wait to meet you guys soon. Wishing you all the best.
Can Inelli thank you!!!! We can’t wait either to meet you!!! We already thinking about being creative together, having good conversations and enjoying good food and drinks 🤩 see you soon, very soon!
Excited to follow along!! Love the editing and quality of your videos! Amazing story!!
Thanks guys, all credits foe along the magic and editing goes to Pedro Wessels, he is a legend. How are you guys doing?
Feel the Breeze family he did an amazing job! We are doing well👍, super busy always going! How are you all doing are you all getting to travel and explore?
And here we gooo....
And than there was Corona....
Superplan, Gerben. Erg mooi schip, mooie crew. Heel veel wind, plezier en geluk met dit geweldige avontuur.
Ik zit nu even in Palma, als je daar binnenkort bent laat maar weten.
Hans Hekker dankjewel en we komen je zeker opzoeken als we in de buurt zijn.....nu eerst in quarantaine rijden naar Turkije....word een avontuur op zich om bij de boot te komen.
@@FeeltheBreeze Heel veel succes! Stay safe!!
Dankjewel Hans! Hoop dat jullie allemaal gezond en wel zijn?
@@FeeltheBreeze Ja, wij zijn allemaal gezond. Wel weer terug in NL want Palma ging dicht. ik hoop dat jullie op je schip zijn en dat de wind goed staat. Als je van plan bent om naar Malta te gaan laat even weten.
Wow!! Very nice family! Go on and live your dreams! It is all about mindset ;-)
Thank you Felix and indeed mindset is everything. Thank you for watching and we hope to keep seeing you around!
Subscribed...it is inspiring having been same situation..looking forward for your future adventure
Oh welcome and amazing that you join us on this adventure. Hope things are looking more bright for you as well. We are almost ready to set sail for the first time after more than a year.
Have a great day today!
Nice video, wishing you a safe journey!
Karen Bolier dankjewel Karen, wat lief 🤩🤗🙏
Just found your channel and I needed this right now. Thank you!
WoW, that’s so nice to hear, welcome onboard, if you are looking for more in-depth knowledge please check out our website www.feelthebreeze.nl because we believe everyone deserves their most preferred lifestyle 😍
Super proud 🤩
Rianne Hottinga - Self Love and super excited 🤩
Your channel showed up as a possible one that I might like to view. I look forward to catching up on your journey😃👍🏼.
New subscriber
Hi Bonnie, that’s amazing. Welcome onboard and hope you feel the breeze. Enjoy catching up 🤩
Man I Love your channel!!! So professional production and good content. You guys are amazing 💪🏻👍🏻⛵️
Oh thanks Thomas, we also love your channel and can't wait to see some more of you in the videos. Great respect for how you are doing everything and that you are getting way out of your comfort zone! you are the best!
An amazing story you have so far guys. I'm gonna follow you all the way on your awesome adventure. Godspeed vanuit Middelburg, Zeeland. The sunny state of the Netherlands😉
Jurriaan van der Linden wauw thank you! We love it that you are so enthusiastic and genuine. We hope we will meet some day and until then hope to keep seeing you around here and on insta! Big hug from the three of us.
Have fun in the Atlantic Ocean! 🌊 ⛵ 🌊
Thanks Pierce, we will. Will be the first for us to be on the ocean, do you have any experience with the Atlantic Ocean?
@@FeeltheBreeze 🏊 🏄 🎣 My little Floaty Boat is only 23 feet, and I haven't gone totally crazy yet! If I was crossing the Atlantic (even in a goodly sized boat) I'd make sure I had a PLB like this: amzn.to/2W7rA5z And, I'd probably have a harness/pfd-harness to make sure I wouldn't get washed away in foul weather. I'd plan for the worst and expect the best though. I think it would be a super fun adventure! Have fun out there!
Mooi verhaal Gerben!! Bon voyage.
Dank Pieter, je hebt het deels van een afstandje meegemaakt waarbij wij het altijd over onze gezamenlijke passie zeilen hadden. Volgens mij wordt het tijd om elkaar eens te ontmoeten ergens op het water. Fair winds!
@@FeeltheBreeze Wellicht stopover in Kroatië...
Ohh what! Nice! A businessman and a lawyer... What a dream team :D Love that mindset of just deciding to becoming a millionaire!! Just like Will Smith in that YT video "Will Smith shares his secrets to success": "Just decide! Who you wanna be and what you wanna do". That should be a far more spread mindset. And It's not even an only monetary goal. Just like Tony Robbins said - "Business is a spiritual game". There is simply no way I won't be a millionaire in life. People say money doesn't make you happy. Well, those people clearly never sailed :D In fact I don't consider a sailboat a materialistic thing but a vessel for the mind.
Business is absolutely a spiritual game Ane deciding to become financially independent is just one decision. We love your comment and especially your line about owning a sailboat 😂 and a sailboat is absolutely a vessel for the mind. We feel so blessed to wake up every day in a beautiful bay, being close to Nature and together setting up our businesses while sailing the world. For us our most preferred lifestyle 💙 great to have you onboard.
What a beautiful video guys! Great work 🤟
Yndeleau SY thanks guys looking forward to see you sailing around 🤩🤗
OK... let's start from the beginning.... I am Not good at this kind of technical issues but I quest find the starting point... WoW... It will be so nice to see How your dreams come to real.......... Hope People can catch a clue ......
Thanks Kanar for starting from the beginning and joining our adventures. We have a sequence in episodes and will launch episode 31 next Tuesday. We hope people catch the clue as well... you found it already? 😍
Great story, great channel!
Thanks Mauro, glad you like our videos and grateful to have joining in on our journey!
Subscribed :) Looking forward to follow your journey ! I am 3 yrs behind to lose the ropes but it will happend. And yes B57 :)
Janos Uhlir welcome Janos so glad to meet sailing people and especially the B57 ones 🤩🤗
Start from the Balaton?
Very interesting story! Would love to hear more, maybe when you come to the Caribbean we can cross paths 😇
Cute kid by the way and beautiful sailboat! 👌🏻
That would be amazing and we would love to meet and share stories. We hope to do the Atlantic crossing at the end of this year
@@FeeltheBreeze perfect!! We have put our house on the market and hopefully by April I will be in Puerto Rico in my sailboat doing a.......you guessed it, a refit!! 😂🙈
By the way I must say, I was taught to sail by a Dutch sailor and i must say that I thank him everyday from being your typical Dutch hardass, but it taught me well and I’m thankful for it!
Miss the guy! 🍻🙏🏻
Wow, congratulations with this big step, the first one is the toughest the rest will follow. What an excitement and starting a refit is something, if you need more info let us know. The Dutch guy wasn’t Gerben????😂 he was a sailing instructor when he was young. We wish you all the best 😍
@@FeeltheBreeze haha no. Thank you!
Love your car as well, too bad you can fit that baby on your boat🤷🏻♂️!
Following now so I’ll be stalking you guys as you make your way to the Caribbean. 😆🍻
Class..class..
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Beautiful family, beautiful vessel, beautiful adventure! You won another subscriber ;) Can you share your background and evolution steps regarding salling? I´m starting some salling courses with RYA since my goal is to make something like you guys did. Thanks! cheers
Whoop Whoop a new subscriber, next step is creating a raving fan 😍When you start Binge watching our episodes you will discover, my (Gerben) back ground started when I was 4 years old in an optimist during summer, expanded this to sailing with friends for weeks in a row on a 16m2 (open wooden sailingboat) and after that I became an instructor on sailing school for lake sailing. Thereafter I started sailing regattas as a crew, gained my first sea experience and started renting boats in Italy and Croatia and the Perfect Sense was the first boat I bought by myself. Rianne had no sailing experience till we started sailing together. Owning a sailing boat is a steep learning curve but definetly worth it if you start doing it full time. If there is anything we can help you with please let us know. Thanks!
The start of our journey, can't believe it is happening. At the end of this month we will start travelling again.... Grateful
Gerben Abbink can’t wait!!!!
Hi, I love your filmmaking. I haven't started in order, but I enjoyed this background video. Are you visiting Bermuda?
Hello Island Teacher, we love your account name and would love to learn form you. Thank you for watching and letting us know, the back ground video is the first one we made and with all the knowledge we gained along the way it would have looked totally different, the beauty of the journey and learning curve. We will visit Bermuda one day, that's for sure.
greetings from Jakarta Indonesia, ... can't wait you arrive in Indonesia archipelago
O wow Dody, thank you so much and one day we will sail into the Indonesia archipelago. Great to have you onboard 💙
@@FeeltheBreeze I'd love to
My idols!!!!!!
Thank you thank you far too kind 😍 much love from us 💙
As you both know, money cannot buy love or happiness. Your relationships and purposes in life that are bigger than yourself will be what counts.
Love, happiness and contribution is our fuel and the money will follow. Ours and especially my (Gerben) relationship with money had some ups and downs and a healthy relationship with money is essential. Thank you for watching and letting us know. It’s a pleasure to welcome you onboard our journey around the world 🌎
@@FeeltheBreeze Thank you for your response. We are a Filipino American family and certainly sailing fans, though on a much more modest boat- an old but great boat called a Skookum.
If you eventually make it to the Philippines, we can certainly show you around. To illustrate, run a google image search on Boracay or Coron Philippines, or on our little town of Anda in Bohol Philippines. You will find some beautiful places and the friendliest people you have ever met. Hopefully, things are on the way to opening up soon with all the Covid restrictions. Our boat is in the US now and I am looking to head to Mexico then hit the trade winds for the south Pacific. take care.
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Isaiah Lopez thank you Isaiah, how are you?
Super cool! Wishing all 3 of you the very best!! (p.s. do you need a baby sitter on board?)
Vidya Sagar Gannamani for you there is and will be always a cabin on the Perfect Sense and always a reason to think of to babysit Benjamin of course. We can’t wait to welcome you onboard again 🤗
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A-Train Travels 💪🤩
Amazing Content. Already part of life we have Benjamin in our liFe too She is 2.6 years old her name is Aayat, my daughter .😍
Hi Amir, thats so nice to hear and what a blessing to have your own Aayat in your life, we are very happy for you and your family. Much love from us.
Much better than those LA VAGABONDS klasse lage
We think we understand what you mean, there are a lot copycats of La Vagabond and that’s because Riley and Elayna did something great, we believe everyone has their own unique story to share. Ours is from a bankruptcy to dream life, how we chanced our mindset, create our lifestyle and business again to sustain our lifestyle and be successful again and sharing this. Also the sponsors-deals, how we make them and implement them on our terms and being open about it.
I may have missed out, but what model boat do you have?
No worries Danny, the Perfect Sense is a Beneteau57, a so called pocket Superyacht and the flagship of Beneteau years ago 💙
@@FeeltheBreeze Thanks for the reply. I am a new subscriber to your channel. Lovely boat and family. Do you have a video where you broke down the cost of the refit work? Also, did you choose to do the work in Turkey because of cost and quality?
Thanks Danny, in the making, the videos are almost real live at the moment. The reason for Turkey was craftsmanship and costs. Thanks for subscribing and joining our journey.
Parabéns
obrigado - feliz por ter você por perto 💙
Hi, love what did with your boat, looks beautiful. I myself was well on my way to become a millionaire before I became 40, but because of many factors business went down. How did you get to buy you boat being bankrupt, can you give me advice please, I am not bankrupt, never being. But I know how to make little money count for what I want. I started building a aircraft from scratch with about a $1000 US and are almost done ten years later. Although I always said I will build two things in my life, a aircraft and my own sailboat, at 51 I do not know if I want to wait another ten years to be able to sail. My aircraft is almost done as we enter the 11 th year. If you have any advice. Enjoy your beautiful family and may you have a awesome joy filled 2021. Gerhard Rieger from South Africa
WoW Gerhard, thanks for your compliments but especially sharing your story. Building an aircraft and a sailing boat with a tight budget is really adventurous. Did you do a test flight already? We would love to see some pictures. Regarding buying the boat being bankrupt will be answered in the first episode of Season 2 🤩. Or you can read it in our blogpost on our website for the full story. The company I went bankrupt with was the first company in the world of being a ‘virtual airline’ with their own IATA code. And you know what Richard says:
if you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
All the best with your adventures and little side note: Benjamin was created in SA while we were there for 72 hours.
Much love from us 💙
@@FeeltheBreeze Hi, I am in the assembly face with everything manufactured, hopefully it will be ready to fly in the next 8-10 months. You can take a look at my fb page, many photos of the build. Stay blessed
Hey Ludwig! Reading your story is really inspiring! You maybe wanna check out Maxwell Maltz Psycho Cybernetics! It was like a afterburner for many peoples careers.
Finally some classy educated people made a sailing channel... about time...
Good morning Stuart, we just woke up and thanks for giving us a big smile on our face. Glad you like it, we share our story with all the ups and downs and indeed we like the classy style, that’s who we are and we don’t want to change it, also not to gain more followers. The story, the quality of the content and the value we offer must be enough. Great to have you onboard our journey. Have a great day.
Proficiat ⚓️🏴☠️🥳💃🏼🏝✌🏽🙏💦💨
vincent de f thank you 😊 🙏🤗