It began one morning in Port Adriano, Mallorca.
At that time, I was walking the marinas doing what many young people in the yachting industry still do today: dockwalking, looking for work, handing out CVs from yacht to yacht.
That morning changed something in me.
While walking through the docks, I watched dozens of young crew members trying to be seen in an industry worth billions. Some would leave their CVs under entrance mats before the gangway. Others would tape them near the dock lines. One moment stayed with me forever:
A young woman quietly left her CV beneath the yacht’s entrance mat… together with a small chocolate.
I remember stopping and thinking:
How is it possible that such a sophisticated industry still works like this?
Later, during dayworker jobs onboard yachts, I saw something even more striking.
Crew members would collect CVs all week long only for many of them to end up thrown away. On another occasion, while cleaning the interior of a yacht, I opened a drawer and found dozens of old CVs damaged by humidity, forgotten for months.
Others would simply get wet in the rain or blow into the sea.
What affected me most was not the paper itself.
It was the lost time.
The broken communication.
The inefficiency.
The invisible barrier between people and the spaces they were trying to reach.
That is when a simple question came to my mind:
Why doesn’t every berth have a digital mailbox?
That single question started an obsession.
The more I researched, the more I discovered something much bigger: