What do I want to do?
People dance, people fly, people cry, make love, fight wars even, and I wanna sail and share the feeling. So I thought, why not making a sailing club for catamarans in Jelsa, on island of Hvar, Croatia. I started to sail with Hobie cat 17, and even though it’s a small boat (5 meters long, 2,5 meters wide and has a mast 9 meters high), but it’s an extremely fast boat (up to 40 km/h). But the most important of it all, it has nothing but sails.
As I love the sea, the island of Hvar and sailing, I’ve decided to form a sailing club where people will be able to share the sailing experience and learn how to sail with those kind of boats. The sailing club will also encourage and hold lectures, ateliers and presentation from diverse, but compatible areas: culture, education, sport, sustainable development, multimedia and wellness.
It’s base camp will be placed in our family vineyard, which is right on the shore of the sea. There I’ve planted Mediterranean plants (olives, lavender and so on) and arranged all the field to be people friendly.
So now I’m stepping forward in search for people that share a passion for creating good and positive stuff. Before my head explodes from ideas and desire to create meaningful things worth living for, I ‘m asking you, to help me make this project come true. Contribute to our project and be a part of better tomorrow. By doing that, you will help to make yet one more positive place on the planet whose doors will be opened for all of you.
All the contributors will be awarded with gifts: our products (olive oil, wine, lavender oil etc.), t-shirts with Ka Boom logo, possibility to sail with us, Ka Boom postcards handwritten by me and my eight year old nephew (he doesn’t know that yet, but he will :), guided tours on the island, seven days stay in Jelsa and so on.
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Who are islanders and why should we sail?
Following is a detailed description of the project:
Who am I?
I’ve been living with passion ever sense I was born. When I loved, I loved truly, when I was hurt, I cried sincerely, and when I go, I’ll know I gave everything I had in my heart to life itself.
I am a thirty three years old professor of social sciences (sociology, philosophy, politics, ethics, economy and logic) and I used to work in bilingual school in Zagreb, Croatia. I was teaching mentioned subjects on French, English and Croatian. Besides that, I worked as a librarian, tourist guide, skipper, waiter, journalist, and even as an actor/director. Bunch of stuff, all in all. And, I am proud to say that where ever I went or worked, people where happy and willing to share their time with me. I love people and believe we must search everywhere for a way to make them smile, because their smile will be our own fulfillment.
I was born in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), but I’ve spent most of my life in Croatia. My mother is from Bosnia (Banja Luka) and my father is from Croatia (Jelsa, island of Hvar). Therefor I am a mix of Bosnian heart (for those who don’t know; Bosnian heart is full of laughter and love) and islands persistence and will. As everybody, I also have my flaws, but I try to correct them daily.
During my lifetime, I’ve finished university (master of science), learned to speak three languages fluently (unfortunately I haven’t been using German for years, and I’m kind of rusty, but it will come back), lived in only three states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and France), worked all over the place, managed to earn enough money to make a movie, that I believed in (it was shown on a few film festivals), had an exhibition of sculptures (that I make, when I have some free time), recently learned to play guitar, and went into sports (triathlon and sailing).
I am sincerely driven by will to create and to fully live and experience life, and that is what I have to offer to the world.
What am I aiming at?
Ever sense I was a little boy I used to go to work in our fields with my brothers and our father. My brothers and I, we were the rarest ones, of young people, who still worked in the filed, thank to my fathers scary look. Even though I hated it when I was fourteen, as anybody would at that time, now I am proud of my heritage.
Today, as I love sailing and immense beauties of island of Hvar, I want to develop a sailing club in Jelsa, island of Hvar. A club that will offer both: experience of sailing with catamarans and the experience of island of Hvar. The club itself will hold various lectures, events, presentations, practical experience of sailing with Hobie cat, but also gather people who want to learn and share.
What will you be helping to create?
- From social point of view – you will help to create a place where people come to share and learn. A place that will provide a start point for those who want to share with others, and present themselves to others, through lectures, presentations, exhibitions etc. A place where languages and cultures will be exchanged.
- From business point of view – you will be investing in the club that will employ people: sailing instructors, tourist guides, linguists, participants of further different projects etc.
- From development point of view – multi-hull (catamaran) sailing is rather unknown in Croatia, and you will be making it more accessible in here. And also you will be investing in development of rural region.
- From human point of view – once, you will come, you will see what you helped to create, and we will sit down, I’ll poor you a glass of wine, I’ll thank you from the bottom of my heart and we’ll enjoy the day.
What have I done regarding the project until today?
I had approximately 5000€ saved and through one year:
- I bought a boat (Hobie cat 17) and brought it to Jelsa from Slovenia.
- I’ve learned to sail with it.
- In our field/vineyard, that will eventually become a sailing base camp: I’ve fixed most of the stone walls. That makes around 100 meters of stone walls, high between one and two meters, and wide around half of meter. I’ve shoveled all the terraces and planted new plants (in Dalmatia, on the islands, we have terraces in the fields. As the ground is not flat, people created years before terraces.)
- I’ve made a sewer system (which will be later on connected to the base hut, a small structure, which will be used for lectures, presentation, safekeeping the equipment and so on.)
- I’ve planted olive trees, grapes, lavender, and other Mediterranean plants.
- I’ve officially started and registered an association called Ka Boom with an aim of promotion and development of culture, sustainable development, physical activity and healthy living (Klub alternative Boom, meaning Club of alternative Boom; boom is a part of the boat. Starting an association is rather complicated in Croatia, it took me over a month time; which is actually great. Making a sewer system was way easy comparing to administration :)
- I’ve a applied for Erasmus+ in Sports, and even though I missed the deadline (as it took a long time to get all the documents from administration), I’ve established communication with different organisations all around Europe wiling to participate in events yet to come.
- As the land, where our sailing base will be placed, was never officially divided between owners (grandma and her relatives), it took me a year to get all the documents in order. But now it’s done. (That means I’ve payed a lawyer and the court.)
All of it, with 5000€ and lots of muscle work.
(the picture was taken right after all the works, so it will take time for the plants to grow)
Thank you for your time, for it’s the most valuable thing we have.