Inner unrest and the surge for adventure started a long time ago. Managing my little health food business in the Netherlands working hard creating many products and supplements under my own label and selling them to the public. Not really feeling belonging in Holland was because I was raised with my family in South Africa. We lived there during my childhood in a much better climate and with let me say some more basic rules of life..

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My only sister already left Holland a few years earlier to Switzerland. When I decided to emigrate from Holland things were in a big change in South Africa. That with huge political unrest end protests though out the country. No way, it was a good idea that year 1994 to move there and purchase a game farm in Limpopo.

 

I needed a new plan...

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During one of my Caribbean scuba dive vacations the plan appeared! I will get a wooden sailboat somewhere, sail it to the Caribbean and start a charter business. And so we did. Never sailed before looking all over checking out nice vessels in Holland, Turkey, Florida and ended up buying a Canadian build 90' wooden schooner designed by Frank Fredette and build in Richmond, BC . Oh my god, did I really did this? Yes all-ready did the down payment so no way back. Back to Holland, sell the house, the business and everything I owned. Now a lot to learn and arrange. Got my captain's license and my radio telecommunication's license.... Time to say goodby. Arriving in Puerto Vallarta I was lucky that my parents  were just retired and were helping making the vessel ready for the journey and were willing to sail together all the wat to the Caribbean so I did not have to hire crew for the job. How awesome to do this trip with family and friends... This is how Bounty Adventures was in the making, more to come...