| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 6/30/2005 11:56:55 PM | I read a family that did it..and the kids were fine..except when they got old enough they bought boats to do it themselves...basically (not normal lol)
how many people would drop sailboat and travel inside a cubicle for the rest of their lives for money and stuff? lol
Just do it..nike told me it was okay. Hurricanes and flatulence are your biggest enemies... | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/1/2005 1:23:29 AM | I have been looking into a project like this, but without the kids.. a trip the whole way around. A friend of mine (he is 65, retired sailor) took his wife out and sailed from Norway to the caribbean and back.. Took him 18 months.  | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/1/2005 5:39:58 AM | Wow- THIS is a great idea.
i am with skepticalhippy and travelinman on this!!!!
i have also homeschooled, very similar reasons, background and approach as s.hippy.
also, i have been thinking along the lines of other trips, maybe a month or so, that i could offer to homeschooling parents.
younger kids, especially, seem to learn so much better with the `montessori' type approach of direct involvment in their world instead of being TOLD about it.
good luck- please keep us posted if you decide to do this!
peace
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/1/2005 6:15:48 AM | | Two of my good friend are just past a yr on a 2 yr trip sailing around the world with there 2 kids ages 9 and 11. They sold there house and all their posessions to do this. They got tired of the hassels of life. They love it. They may never live on land again. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/1/2005 10:55:43 AM | I'd do it in a minute. You aleady have teaching experience. Plus there would be no better classroom on the planet. What you could teach those kids on a cruise like that could never be found in any school. There are lot of links out there about cruisers and livaboards with kids and they have very little if any problems with having the kids aboard.
I'll be starting my trip around the ol' marble is a few more years without the kids part though. And they way it's looking with my dating situation I might be doing it single handed too, LOL. But either way that is my goal in life.
Oh btw, you do read Latitudes and Attitudes, don't you? LOL | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/8/2005 6:24:43 PM | I'm back, spent a week in NW Arkansas at my brothers on Beaver lake, didn't want you to think I was lost somewhere. 
I haven't read Latitudes and Attitudes for a while, not a subscriber. Something in there I need to see? They might not have it at my library in Kansas. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/8/2005 8:17:37 PM | | I was born on the islands of the subtropics and have been recently thinking about going to live on a sailboat in the Florida Keys. I never did that before, but have always loved the sea and diving. I always lived on or near the sea. Any female want to hook up and let's do it together. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/8/2005 8:25:31 PM | Seeing as my son and I have moved to nine different cities in the last 10 years, I'd say that we're pretty adaptable that way! lol!
Would I do it? Absolutely......
But not this year. We need to ground a bit first..... | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 8:18:46 AM | @Tess:
If you get a chance make sure you stop at the Laird river hot springs while you are up there, see how far up stream you can go before you become a lobster. The Yukon is great place, lots of stuff to do and see up there. Give me a signal and when I'm driving through Yellostone in a couple weeks I'll turn right and head that direction. 
@ hottie: I agree if I was going to boat school or home school children I think they need regular school about 50% of the time to learn socialization skills, how to deal with other people in group situations. I think home schoolers often out learn normal education in the subjects but fall behind in social skills. Let me know when your ready to go It'll be a year or more before I get the bigger boat and I'm ready. I'll save a couple bunks for ya.
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 9:13:45 AM | You would have to have sea legs from a early age, a pretty big boat, and a good family crew to go around the world by yourselfs. Boating school would probably not prepare you for that kind of a trip. Lots of people die out there. I guess you can rent a big boat and hire a crew, but that would be more like a cruze.
Cool Idea though. I don't see a problem with the kids education either. You can allways home school while your out.
On vacation quite a while back in the Caymon Islands, I met a kid named Joe (about 12 years old) who lived on his parents boat (tied at a bouie). His parents took the dingy to span the 300 feet to shore in order to get to work, and Joe swam to shore every day for school with his books on top of his head. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 9:48:32 AM | A few years ago I felt impressed to drop everything, sell our house, etc. and travel with my kids around the world, backpacking. Friends of ours had done it, homeschooled and everything. I thought it would be great fun and teach our children a lot... My husband thought I'd gone off my rocker. Now, four years later, I am divorced. It was the beginning of realizing how terribly different and how much we had grown apart.
If your partner is all for it, go for it. Since then, I have done a huge amount of travel and have found something I adore doing, plus I have had many opportunities to grow that I never would have without the experiences. I take my girls with me every chance I get, and they love it. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 9:56:13 AM | The idea is wonderful, there is just one flaw in it. Although the kids would see some wonderful places, they will miss stability and enteraction with kids their own age. This is not something I would recommend doing with young children. Most of the trip they would not remember when they were older.
If you wanted to include your kids i would wait until they were teenagers.
IMO the trip sounds like alot of fun, but I would never consider taking any of my kids on a trip like that. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 11:35:02 AM | Ok. Being one who lives aboard a sailboat and knows many others, I have a unique perspective.
A couple I know has been around the world, sailing of course. They have a daughter. This daughter is extreamely well rounded. At age 18 she has finished HS and has 2 years of college already. She was schooled aboard, saw things most could only dream of, and loved every minute of it.
Yeah. I'd do it in a heartbeat. These days only the political climate of potential ports of call might give me some concern. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 11:42:37 AM | Oh, I've thought about getting a 50 foot sailboat, droping anchor somewhere in the Caribbean. I wouldn't do it with kids (since I don't have any). The only problem is teaching my cats how to hang over the side of the boat to do their business 
People do stuff like that all the time.
When I was in Amsterdam in 2003, I met up with a Canadian fella, he was going thru college and had the opportunity to backpack thru Europe for 2 months. I found him interesting and fascinating because he was doing something that I wanted to do when I graduated from college but didn't have the opportunity. In 11 more years, I will turn 60 and I intend on taking 1-2 months off work and backpack thru Europe! | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 12:14:28 PM | ["Although the kids would see some wonderful places, they will miss stability and enteraction with kids their own age./"]
I think stability is about feeling loved, secure, happy. It's not a place. There are lots of ways to provide interaction with other children even when travelling. But, then, I've lived my entire life that way and so have my children.... If they are against it, then don't do it. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/9/2005 12:46:03 PM | One boat had a 3" howser over the side, slightly shreeded at the bottom. The cat would jump in, swim around and cool off, then climb out. That was a cool cat.
As to kids, I have generally found them to be happier than most land dwellers. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/11/2005 7:27:36 AM | Cool cat indeed.
As for sea legs, you don't have to grow up with them, I've been sailing a long time, small craft on small inland lakes and lately a lot of windsurfing, started out with a boat smaller than a sunfish worked up to 23 foot tri hull, all trailer boats, then worked back down to windsurfers. The faster you can put a boat in the water the more you will use it. I did see some big waves for small lakes with my trailer boats I would be going out on the lake when everybody else was coming in. I wanted to see what I could break and what I could overcome, the largest waves were maybe 5 foot, very closely spaced in a 23 ft boat. At the time it reminded my of the National Geographic sign on with the waves crashing over the deck and solid spray with dark clouds. I always have enjoyed challenges and have overcome broken rudders and skegs to total destruction of the cross frame on a homebuilt catamaran, nothing but hulls separately floating and a mast with sails all attached together with wires and ropes. The cat was recovered and rebuilt easily, only two frame members broke and had to be strengthened and welded. That day I learned how it would be easy to be missed in the confusion of waves, a power boat came within 50 feet not more then two minutes after the sudden disappearance of my boat and saw nothing, even though we were frantically trying to wave him down. All of this experience I think does little for sea legs, they come from big waves on big water. I really didn’t have much trouble with the Gulf, sick once but weathered a pretty good storm; nothing like Dennis could do though.
Last year was my first live aboard, bought the 30 footer on ebay in Ohio, sailed the Great lakes all summer and then down the rivers to the Gulf, and across to southern Florida where the boat is now (watched Dennis real close), soon off to the Bahamas. Then back to Florida, sell the boat and start looking for the 40 foot steel hull to do the world trip. The world trip might never happen but 2 years ago the Great Lakes to Bahamas might never had happened either. I was looking on ebay for an airplane, they seemed still expensive even with the poor economy and I decided it was time for the sailboat and Bahamas trip instead, sailboats seemed cheap.
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/11/2005 9:23:48 AM | | I wouldn't do it when they're too young... Give them a chance to make some friends on land first. THEN rip them away from em. jk. I think a kid would be pretty excited for something like that. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/20/2005 9:02:46 AM | I think it's an INCREDIBLE idea!!!! I'm sure that you'll have no trouble finding a woman who would be willing to do that...Just keep in mind that she MAY have some apprehension about actually giving BIRTH on a boat!!!!
The best education in the world...can only be found...in the world!!!!  Dee | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/20/2005 9:58:06 AM | what a great idea
i would do it but it would have to be a big boat, equipped with an extensive first aid kit, books and educational items for the kids, plus we got to have a lot of money for necessities. also, i think it would be wise to take cpr courses and be prepared with knowledge of the sea.....then i would do it for sure. sounds very inticing. | |
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