31.01.2019 Natalya Walker

Stepping out of the dark Over the past few decades’ advances in technology have been astounding. It seems everything’s turning “smart”, your watch now talks to you, your phone pays your bills and your car can park itself. We’ve swapped road maps for Satnavs, books for e-readers and even credit cards for digital wallets. The whole world is going digital and yet when it comes to marine navigation it feels as though sailors are somewhat left out of the race.   Thankfully there’s a young startup working to challenge the norm and change all of this. Founded by former Google Staff Engineer and avid sailor Jelte Liebrand, savvy navvy was created with a single goal, to build the best sailing navigation solution worldwide.

21.01.2019 Adrian Walker

A blog post by Emilia Biala. Everyone has their story to tell. Story to share. Story that becomes part of you and guides you further. In the time when there was no GPS, sailors had to know how to read the stars to guide them.  Maybe now it is hard to believe so,  but that it was the reality. Real sailors still know how to do it and I highly admire these skills. We also say that there are times in life when the stars just simply align – it happens when things are going well and we simply feel lucky.  I believe in my  positive stars alignment when it is  about meeting people, especially those who are related to water. I think I could write a book about every single person I met while learning or teaching freediving. When it developed into sailing it was pretty much the same. Maybe is that the common thing of the ”water people”?  I am sure you have ever had that feeling when you encounter someone for the first time and after 5 minutes of conversation you have an impression as if you knew that person for years.  So let me tell you one of these stories of an extraordinary person I met on the boat.

12.12.2018 Adrian Walker

Learn how Emilia fell in love with the element of water, how she discovered freediving as a sport and as a meditation tool. For many of us, free diving sounds scary - you dive very deep while you hold your breath. For Emilia it represents freedom and the tool to meditate. Forget yesterday and tomorrow, block out the noise, concentrate on the here and now. Easy said but hard to do. Learn how Emilia managed to learn it in the depths of the water and how the meditating effect gives her strength and energy - and focus.

13.11.2018 Adrian Walker

Do you have a startup company that you are trying to grow, but find yourself stretched for time while trying to navigate a profitable business, and have a happy and healthy personal life? Many would say that we can’t always get what we want, but what if you could pursue a life that is healthy AND profitable? My guest for this episode is Adrian Walker, and he is someone uniquely qualified to offer insights in achieving both. Adrian is the co-founder and CEO of Boataffair, and he tackles what it means to have a global impact by expanding our thinking beyond the local and linear framework.  Adrian will also share some common mistakes and myths that people encounter as a business owner, and strategies you can use, starting today.

22.10.2018 Natalya Walker

In today’s blog, we speak to one of the most lauded luxury interior designers in London, Katharine Pooley about her love of travelling and what to consider when designing the interior of your boat.  

17.10.2018 Adrian Walker

“If you’re open, you’re creative, you wanna go out there and build something, things will happen that you don’t anticipate and doors will open.” – Adrian Walker

14.09.2018 Carlo Zanon

After months of hard study, I can proudly say that I have a boat license and I can legally drive a boat

13.09.2018 Adrian Walker

At Boataffair, we love to share inspiring stories. This one is a story of a young couple who quit their job and ended up sailing the globe. It all started with a Tinder date in 2015. The rest is history. They both sold all of their stuff, bought a sailing boat and decided to go cruising the seas. Together with them we explore the question of ‘What would your life look like if you did what you really loved’. Or in other words: It is ok to answer, ‘I don’t know’ when asked ‘where do you want to go?’.

09.07.2018 Natalya Walker

In two previous blog posts, I have written about one of the special experiences Boataffair created for our client. We talked about how it came about, what we did and what adventure looked like.  Now, its time to tell you about the client and her programme. I have interviewed Antonina on the nitty gritty - its a short but fun read. So, take a look, how transformational journeys work. 

04.07.2018 Natalya Walker

Back in March, I wrote a blog about the very unique experience we have been putting together for one of our UK based clients. This was a sailing retreat in Greece and I was lucky to have been invited by my client to join! She told me she wants to run these types of retreats more regularly and therefore it will be of great help if I can take part in the first one so that I can help her design others. This made sense, so after an initial inner struggle about the amount of work I would face when I am back in the office, I set off for Athens