11/05/2024
Breaking News: 🥳
We have just completed the sale of our beloved SV Lust4Life ⛵️⚓️ Our baby has new owners from 1st May and we have decided to take a break from the live aboard lifestyle for some time. Our new homes will be in Lanzarote in winter and Berlin in summer. 🥳
Dear L***y 😍
Thanks for being our home for the past 4 years and for sailing us safely through all kinds of weather to so many beautiful places. We enjoyed countless different things on and with you: like fishing and eating the freshest fish, freediving from you in the colorful waters of the different oceans, watching the most incredible sunsets, stars, moons, listening to our favorite music and podcasts while you were making miles and miles, watching movies even in the middle of the ocean, washing our clothes, sleeping confi, doing spa treatments, sports and yoga sessions on passage in all weather conditions thanks to your safe cockpit, cooling our food in your fridges, taking hot showers, having friends over for BBQs, watching dolphins on your bow, having deep conversations and all emotions from doubts, fears, miserable mood to laughter, happiness and tears of joy. As you need (and obviously deserve) a lot of attention, Andy became captain and engineer in one and we were both growing up with you. But you were worth every single effort because you have been providing a home in a period of our lives that has been so colorful and full of all kinds of lessons that we needed a “shoulder” to lean on more than once. Your “shoulders” are stronger than life and the sturdiness and safety you provided gave us all the time and space we needed.
You stripped us to the bones and then helped us to put all the pieces back together – just like a loving but in the same time very demanding parent. ❤️
Some interesting facts and figures about our 4 year long trip: 💡
Number of countries visited: 15 (Spain, Portugal, Cape Verde, Barbados, Grenada, SVG, Dominica, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St. Martin, Bahamas, Bermuda)
Number of islands: 30+
Nautical miles: 11.500 (21.000 km)
Fuel spent (engine and generator)*: ~ 1.500l
* roughly 80% for sailing under motor, 20% for producing energy (mostly for the watermaker)
Water produced on board: ~ 100.000l (most of it powered by PV panels, rest: generator power)
Fish/shellfish caught: too many to count ;-)
Energy produced by the PV panels (3x335 watts): ~ 8.000 kwh*
99% of our energy for all electronics/electricts on board including 3 fridges, navigation, various pumps, light, induction cooking, charging of phones and other devices, making ice,… has been produced by the sun. Making water and protecting the batteries in the rare event of a few cloudy days in a row have been our main reason to run the generator.
Moments that felt like giving up: 10.000+
Moments that we gave up: 0
Trust in each other before the trip: 99,99%
Trust in each other now: 2 x 100%
We wish the new owners always a safe journey and a memorable time with you. Congratulations to an amazing blue water boat. You surely won't regret it 💪
We truely love you Mrs. Lust 😍 It was a great honor to be your crew.
Now it´s time to move on and let you do what you are best at: Protecting, serving and guiding another couple through the stormy lessons of life and love.
So guys, stay tuned, there´s a lot more to come – on and off the oceans.
Biggest hugs for all of you, your Lust4Life team
Andy and Antonija ⚓❤️
P.S New boat related ideas/plans are obvisouly in the make, since our wonderful friend Blazenko is always right and has probably been right once more when he said: „Ohne Boot bist Du tot“ which means in a drastic way that he cannot imagine us to be without a boat after 20 years. Our imagination does not go much further than his.
***y
