Sailing in Treacherous Waters to Alaska. With Toddlers for Crew.

[elleng]

'With a barely-4-year-old and a not-quite-2-year-old, in a 32-foot boat sailing up the Inside Passage, a family discovers the best rewards are those never imagined.

This was the third time I’d sailed up the Inside Passage in a boat. The third time I’d watched surf explode from the rocky headlands of northern Vancouver Island, the swell rhythmically shifting my view of the horizon. The umpteenth time I’d listened to the weather forecast on the VHF radio while gulls catapulted past me in the wind. But it was the first time I’d done a trip like this with young children on board.'>>>

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1160999

[EX500rider]

1. I am used to that way of life, was born on my fathers sailboat in Jamaica...

....with 4 kids under 10yo, my mom and dad on board, 47' ketch.
We later cruised N and S Europe, N Africa and the Black Sea, was a cool childhood I thought.

Made for uncomfortable back to school secession's though..
"What I did last summer":
Kid before me is all excited cause they went to 6 Flags, then I have to go up and explain how I went to Rome, Venice and Athens etc and was boarded and detained by the Bulgarian Navy and went through a big storm off the Baleric Islands etc..lol

[elleng]

2. WOW!

Happy to meet you!

Sputnik October ('57) did travel to Europe with my family, 6th grade, and teacher was a real pain on my return.