Ikigai

The Ikigai is an 11m Bavaria 36 sailboat. in length and 3.5m. beam where I try to make the people who visit feel at home.

Ikigai ("Iki" means life and "gai" value or merit) is a Japanese concept that can be defined as “a reason to live”, “a purpose”, “a reason to get up in the morning” and it helped me a lot in deciding to change my life and start this new path.

It is a comfortable, robust boat and a good sailor. In its large and comfortable deck we will enjoy delicious meals and long conversations, it also has speakers and a music system to connect to via Bluetooth. On the bow mat we can relax, rest, sunbathe, meditate or simply observe the horizon. Its interior, bright and very seaworthy with wooden finishes, has three double cabins and a bathroom with a perfect distribution to be comfortable and at ease. It has a kitchen, oven and refrigerator, as well as a gas and charcoal barbecue in case we want to cook fish, vegetables or meat on deck.

The Ikigai is dispatched to navigate in Zone 2 (up to 60 miles from the coast), equipped with all up-to-date regulatory safety equipment (life raft, radio beacon, electronic equipment, life jackets, pyrotechnic material, first aid kit, etc...) and with a maximum capacity for 8 people.

I like to share navigation tasks with the crew. For this reason, I have no problem allowing them to steer the wheel for as long as they want or to collaborate in raising and trimming the sails.

My first boat was the Canela, an Oceanis 320 I bought in 2008. I quickly realized that you only learn through a lot of experience and the only way to learn to sail was to buy a sailboat. I am lucky it is still moored very close to the Ikigai with a great captain like Alex who takes great care of it.

In 2018 I bought the Tibere, my neighbour on the mooring, whose owners Monica and Marc always told me that it would end up in my hands. I wanted to gain comfort and have a boat that sailed better and the Bavaria 36 is an exceptional sailboat. In 2020 I put the boat on the 6th list so I could rent it and carry passengers and then I decided to give it a name that would identify me, and of course, it couldn't be other than Ikigai.