So I know that my children are the light of my life and all that and I’d hate to lose them, but jeez, safety harnesses for children are really expensive! I wonder if people ever make their own. I’ll have to look into that.
Baby Steps – Chartering Redux
With an eventual goal of living on a boat for six months, we need to get experience. We live near a large inland lake, and sail an O’Day 322. Clearly that would be too small a boat with three active young boys. So, we needed to figure out how to get experience on bigger boats. The obvious answer to this is bareboat chartering.
So Who Are We?
Like lots of people, we are what I would call “Leisure Sailors”. We have been sailing a couple of years on a relatively small sailboat on “safe-ish” waters. In ours case, we have a O’Day 28 Tartan 41 on Lake Champlain.
We go sailing as much as we can, or to be more accurate, the Captain (Dad), drags his boys for weekend sailing with varying amounts of enthusiasm displayed by the crew.
Frequently, said crew are bribed with various offers such as uninterrupted sunbathing, use of iPad, a movie to watch, copious chocolate or soda (depending on crew member).
The Sailing With Kids Blog
Where to start?
We sail, in a small boat, and are not that good at it.
We are a family of four. Four boys, all under the mental age of twenty.
We put life on hold for a year to go sailing around the Caribbean.
Sailing With Kids 