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you can agree with me that we found

enough of folly at the first sight maybe

on it maybe on a second we knew that

it's gonna cost us really a lot and and

I'm talking about money energy time we

needed to put in to make it better and

make it right go but we knew that if

this is for us and yeah it was it was

actually very contrary to what many

people might think it was actually

appealing the fact that it was neglected

and we actually had to put in a lot of

work and yes of course

and yes of course we could get it on a

much this on a much discounted price

because of that and we had a choice we

could have we could have put in more

money up front and buy a boat that was

effectively ready to sail or put in much

less money up front but then put a lot

more work and money for spare parts and

material and some labor to help us in

order to put pulley right back to its

right state so with all the tight

parameters that we set for ourselves to

buy a boat meaning it was supposed to be

comfortable fast and portable yeah that

was pretty much mix close to impossible

impossible to to meet but we got lucky

we found this one boat that that needed

some work and hence it was available for

significantly less but yet it was still

fast and comfortable so once we finally

found about we were actually very happy

to find it because there was a quite a

bit of time when we could not find

anything suitable it's not easy with the

with the set of parameters that we had

both in one place yeah so we traveled

all over you know it's expensive takes a

lot of money and it's even harder when

you fight five months pregnant jumping

on the dinghy

yeah so we found it

and

it's not like we fell in love and right

on the very first sight but as soon as

the wheels started turning in our head

it was basically very quickly we came to

the conclusion that wait a minute we can

have this boat at fairly good discounts

because it was in bad shape and it

needed a big discount and it needed a

lot of work but at the same time it

still was very good design very good

sailing boat and there and very

comfortable at the same time and why we

decided to buy this particular boat

because we bought it in Florida and our

plan was to take the boats and prepare

boats to cross the Atlantic to go to :

and put the boat in the shipyard in

Poland because we needed that the boat

required investment because it's a

different level when you want to bring

it up to a up to speed so it's

technically sound and safe to sail but

it's a completely different level when

you want it to work for years on end and

be completely well done very good idea

it was actually like that and you know

and you know the better we can afford to

make this investment in safe no one does

exactly that's exactly why we had such a

good position buying position because

because there would be nobody in the

u.s. interested even at the low price to

buy this boat because it required so

much work and labor is very expensive in

the US and hard to come by so and we did

a lot of work ourselves actually we did

all of the work ourselves in the US and

then we did some of the work in Poland

but we also had a lot of good people

help us with that and you know obviously

that was cents on the dollar when it

comes to labor costs so it was the only

way it made sense but why we why we

really like the idea of buying this boat

a boat that needed work was that we knew

that once we go through all this entire

going through the boat you know taking

it up completely apart and putting it

back together with all the right parts

and solutions was that we gonna know it

inside out and this is completely

priceless it's an

that will pay off for years and it

already did because now whenever

something breaks in this boat we know

what is it and we know where is it and

we know how to fix it it's so I joined

Bartok in Florida which kupaka I was 10

months and yes so we got almost one

month to prepare boats to cross the

Atlantic and it was like crazy mom 6 6

a.m. till 12 at night every day she was

feeding the IV so I don't die Wow

we're taking on in the car seat into the

Jeep and driving for the solar panels on

the top of the roof the car and then

yeah thanks I like this thanks thanks

Alexis our broker who lent us his old

old Ford Explorer that really worked

very well yeah we did put four giant

solar panels on top of that roof and

drove it from Fort Lauderdale and Anya

laminated some of the some of the holes

for the for the for the bolts to put it

on that on the roof so yeah that was one

of the first things we did it were so

we're so proud of it we're so proud of

it and we're still so proud of it

because they make so much electricity

hurry we replace you just said yeah all

the electronic systems were replaced

I bought entire new electronics for the

boat and all the electrical system has

been replaced to the batteries we did it

all a lot of things in there applets

saying yes not a great thing it was yeah

it was it was a great combination

because we knew we can buy a lot of

equipment at very good discount in the

US especially in that place where we

were in Fort Pierce there was a as this

boat yard which would salvage a lot of

parts in very good condition sometimes

frankly new parts but from other boats

and and we could buy them as very good

disconcert we bought everything that we

possibly needed for the boat

and not all of it we used right away but

we were going to use it in Poland during

the big refit but yet at the same time

when we went to Poland we could use the

advantage of less expensive labor while

having all this cheap equipment from

from the US so it was a perfect

combination for us it really was so we

did it we did it all we fixed it fixed a

boat to a point of a very good working

condition safe and sound

rate yeah that's the only thing we

really hired people for because I

respected the rigging and I was afraid

that two shrouds are gonna not survive

the trip hence we wouldn't either

so like I call these guys and and they

were really nice really good guys really

they knew what they're doing and it took

him one afternoon they replaced two

shrouds with stainless steel because we

had a carbon shrouds before and we made

it very safe we made what Julian yeah

yeah yeah

between electronics electrical yeah we

created we create we started started

doing off I think there was I think

there was a fight I think there was a

five minutes between the electronics and

electrical yeah it was a very tiring

moment for us because we were in a big

hurry because we wanted to leave as soon

as possible but you cannot you know you

could you cannot go with the boat not

hurt yes not an option I just imagine

for us a test drive was from Fort Pierce

in Florida which is close to Fort

Lauderdale to New York for most people

it's a big trip for us it was just a

test track just to see if the boat is

working properly and everything

yeah but finally we did it we did we

left four piers

snarf yeah we took it very easy it took

us six days to get to New York

well I mean there was some wind and then

there was no wind so you know we just

put it along a little bit on the engine

but it was it wasn't really safe I mean

nothing really broke we I noticed few

things that needed to be modified so in

New York we spent a week

weary provisions and change those few

things to new pieces of equipment and

and we went on our way to Ida France I

took a flight yeah how about Poland

because I didn't want to sail at that

moment I was pregnant few weeks pregnant

and yeah I didn't want to take poober

with me at that moment

so Bartok left with three people and now

you were sailing for two weeks two weeks

15 days to France and then and finally

you're right Poland yeah yeah so in

Poland in Poland yeah we put a boat on

there dry hmm in system in September

2014 we put it on the dry I mean and it

remained that way for pretty much

exactly 12 months we literally took

their own terrible apart we unscrewed

every single screw evolved everything of

those going for the deck we ripped out

an entire interior we read gel coated

the holes on the inside we redid the

entire interior we then in put put

everything back in on the new seals and

whatnot we made a lot of changes in the

rigging we yeah we created some new

sails yeah when we were going across the

Atlantic to France for the first week we

were we were going so fast it was

unbelievable we were doing upwards of

250 miles a day every single day

and then a second week the wind turn

behind us and it weakened and this boat

just would not go anywhere and it's both

just it was this really bad point of

sail there is no way to set the sails

properly and this is when this idea dawn

on me that for this particular condition

when we're crossing oceans and we have

wind behind us especially going west

when you're going from Canary Islands to

the Caribbean you have most of the winds

are from behind you it would be very

very good to have this job

and spinnaker just one round they sailed

that symmetrical that can catch a lot of

wind and not let it go and that's it

just sat and we made it we made an

important and and it proved to be

invaluable it was just amazing you could

go straight downwind with great speed

and great comfort at the same time

because you do you'd be doing close to

wave speed so I love it at the same

moment I was preparing our house to move

out after Julian was born so he was 2

month old yeah I needed to move out all

our things because we wanted to rent out

the house and it was a nice experience

for me because first I was so scared

oh my god what can I do how can I live

without my books you know my best music

albums my favorite furniture that I was

looking for many many years you know to

get it and and you know I was just

packing all the things and you know

deciding if it's garbage my parents

place birth experience play parties

parents place or both today I'm having

to keep Julian Cooper with me so it was

like a big challenge for me while while

while she was running a company and I

was working a full-time job yes we're

trying to make as much money we could

that moment yeah he like crazy I

remember I was sleeping for 3 or 4 hours

every night I think 5 breaks because the

kids were very young Julian was in two

months and she was

he was he was waking up you know so many

times and it requires a lot of attention

it was really really difficult for us

for me when you don't sleep so it's like

it's is difficult what but we finally

did it we move out we put our things to

the car it took 4 or 4 sedans you know

regular normal sized said Toledo right

that we my mom's car that we loaded up

for and I drove it alone to statue from

Warsaw and that was it and then and then

I actually you know supposedly did all

the stuff that we couldn't part with

right that we needed on the boat not

even that we couldn't part with so we

need another boat right and then the

next thing literally about two weeks

from from the point when we know about a

week from the point where we left Poland

we had a leak in the write about where

we had most of our winter clothes and

some of those some of the stuff that we

thought we needed well I guess what half

of the stuff that we thought we needed

went out the window when we've never

seen it again and we're happy with it

my sweaters my biggest conclusion after

preparing our life our life to move out

traditional house was that at the end I

realized that I don't need this space

and I don't at all because and how much

energy we normally spend on using and

maintenance maintain that peace well

acquiring first then then then worrying

about having and not losing them you

know and then most of the time we're not

using them at all so September 4th 2014

we finally left stretching

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for us sailing is a way of free life in

sync and harmony with nature and each

other it's a way of experiencing life

people and places fully on our own terms

for many years it was just a dream but

we followed it and it came true we are

here and now no longer chasing the dream

we'd like to share it with you so that

you can follow your dreams - this is our

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