Archive for the tag 'family'

Feb 07 2010

On Doing What’s Done

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There’s an email list for parents of children who are considering cruising. We’re a funny and eclectic bunch. You get questions about Personal Flotation Devices (and why the heck can the UK create a fabulous kid’s PFD with integral harness and the USA just will not?), questions about homeschooling, questions about all the crazy details [...]

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Dec 20 2009

A Marina Holiday

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Check the blog out over on ElementalMom.

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Aug 11 2008

TShirts for Zac!

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I don’t normally flog merchandise, but Zac Sunderland‘s family has t-shirts for sale on his site, to help raise money for his effort. So… make with the clicky and buy a few! Surely you know a bunch of cruisers who could use a new wardrobe item? What better than this? http://www.qbaroo.com/zacsunderland/main.cfm?categoryoid=1

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Jun 05 2008

Way to go, Zac!

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OK, this is hands-down ubercool. I mean, uber, ubercool. Zac Sunderland is organizing a circumnavigation, on his boat, the Intrepid, an Islander 36. (Surely that fact will at least goad Zen into commenting. =) . Check out his website and the NPR interview with him. The interview is pretty lame, frankly, since the interviewer is [...]

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Feb 22 2008

Fingerpainting

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Rather than spend this post whining about the fact that my long-awaited Birthday Sail plans have been put out of commission by another long stretch of rain and storms, I decided to go back and catch up on some of the material I’d collected over the warmer, sunnier, kinder days. For boat kids, life is [...]

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Feb 06 2008

A Smaller Footprint

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One of my friends recently sent me this link to an SFGate piece, “Small houses challenge our notions of need as well as minimum-size standards“. (Thanks, FR!). Go ahead and read it through, then come on back. The house we lived in was ~1200 square feet, give or take. It’s considered to be small. Most [...]

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