Aug 3 • My voyage 🌎
My journey to yachting
Hi, my name is Lia, and I’m a sailor. Here’s my journey to this point. In 2021, during the lockdown, we thought, "Why not go somewhere?" The first country that opened up was Turkey, which became our home. But then we had the issue of housing. My husband is a yacht interior designer and has spent his life living on the seas and fishing. So, he asked me if I wanted to live on a yacht. My answer was definitely YES. I fell in love with the sea life from day one.
Under my husband’s guidance, I learned how to sail this small 28-foot vessel (yes, it was VERY small). But with this boat, we went through so much—from repairs to losing the mast while on the way. That was an adventure! We lost a pin for the stays, and the mast fell down, with the sails still up, sinking into the water. But we weren’t ready to lose it! We secured the halyards to the winches and called for help on the radio.
Unfortunately, our engine died (Murphy’s Law) and we were being carried by strong currents and big waves toward the shore. Luckily, a MEGA yacht was sailing just 10 minutes behind us. I had never seen such a beautiful yacht. Their tender was bigger than our whole boat, haha! They helped us pull the mast back up, but of course, the sails were torn. My daughter and I were taken aboard their boat, while my husband stayed on our boat, towing it. We lost him twice because the ropes couldn’t hold. The yacht was going 12 knots, but our little boat wasn’t built for such speeds! It was flooding with water, and my husband had to pump it out using both a pump and buckets—quite a challenge.
How can you not love the sea? There are no adventures like this on land. I’ve been living on land in Spain for just over a year, and I can feel how this land life is slowly killing me. But not for long—I’ll soon meet you all at sea, my brothers!
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