About the crew
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Peter
Peter (37, from Nurnberg, Germany) lives on Bonaire since 2014 and has been working as a dive instructor, facility manager, working on the front office of a dive resort and now is fixing problems of other people, electrician work and installing battery-solar-off-grid-systems. He is the brains behind this project. For building an off-the-grid hybrid sailing boat, he brings in the knowledge and practical experience for the technical part. He loves fishing, sailing (best combined), BBQ, swimming and unicorns.
Sanne
Sanne (36, from Tilburg the Netherlands) lives on Bonaire since 2020 an started as a pharmacist in the local hospital. Since December 2022 she has dedicated her time to LIV and in the summer of 2023 she became a yoga teacher. Next to sailing, she loves painting, yoga, snorkeling and reading. She is the work and planning force in the project, learning every step more about working with steel, wood and the interior of a sailboat. And that making a planning with working on a boat is not really possible, but she tries it anyway.
The start of our blog
We live quite an unconventional life. Next to living on one of the most beautiful and quiet island in the Caribbean and working on our boat, we . Moving around a lot is challenging, starting a Yoga business is also very time consuming, all the changes we have gone through, it wasn’t easy, but we support each other, and I think without the steadiness of our relationship it would have been a different year. We are very different, but also share our views on some basic points. Peter may describe it differently, but I try to summarize our way of thinking that is similar: I think we are both very grounded in reality, being aware of the shortness of life, the relativity of our lives or things we find difficult compared to the world that surrounds us where we have a lot of freedom and a lot of possibilities, the importance of having a calm and clear mind instead of needing external things to feel happy, taking time to do things good instead of fast, being true and kind to yourself before you can take care of others. Our differences are very obvious. Where I need a planning and I need to write things down, Peter doesn’t have an agenda and is always on time for any appointment, I am always late or I forget appointments if I don’t write them down.
September 2023
LIV
LIV is the name of our boat! And we are currently giving it a complete renovation. She was created in Germany in 1968, in the second-largest German city on the Baltic coast, Lübeck. The reason I call her ‘she’ is because the creators called this limited edition boat ‘Natasha 40’. A very beautiful 40 feet (12.2 meter) steel boat, with one mast.