The inspiration came to the ship's captain, Stephan Aronson, during the Jerusalem prayer breakfast when a waiter told him he'd never meant a person like him.

"You are a Christian. You are a Swedish guy and you love Israel. I have never ever met a person like that," the waiter told him. "I said, hello, we are a lot of people who love Israel in Sweden."

 
"When I came home after that prayer breakfast, I felt we have to do something," Aronson told CBN News. "We can't only sit here and don't do anything. For me love is not anything you just talk about; love is something you're doing."

Background - Sailing for Jesus in support of Israel