Who the Fuck is Felix?
Coming on the boat means trusting the skipper - so here is a little info about me!
Coming on the boat means trusting the skipper - so here is a little info about me!
I’m 28, German, and have always been a curious traveller. Grew up in northern Germany with two sisters, amazing parents and a lot of dogs.
I visited 43 countries (and spent two years backpacking Australia) before I studied industrial engineering and became a consultant for cybersecurity for four years.
Throughout my life i had been fascinated with the underwater world - especially the tropical one. Keeping pet fish in an aquarium as a child (and again as a university student), really enjoying fishing and natural history museums and in general being close to the ocean. My childhood hero was (and still is) Steve Irwin!
Although i went to school in a big port city, sailing never really occurred to me, probably because i didn't know a single person in my life who was a sailor. And not knowing about it, I automatically assumed that sailing was reserved for wealthy people.
In 2020 I discovered sailing through YouTube (yes), and was blown away by the idea of being able to live on a boat in the most beautiful places in the world. “That’s what you were born for” is what i told myself then and there. So i signed up for my first sailing class!
Next to my corporate job, I started to learn how to sail, got the commercially endorsed yachtmaster offshore license and started working as skipper and instructor. In 2024, I took a sabbatical from work to do my first paid skipper job, met incredible people and decided to start a sailing business. I never returned to my old job, and now coordinate offshore sailing trips for a German sailing school and yacht deliveries for charter companies.
So far, i have sailed around 20,000nm - which is almost once around the world. It wasn't a circumnavigation, but sailing on lots of different boats, with amazing people and all around the world.
