Feb
07
2010
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 [...]
Tags: cruising, family, living aboard, musings, Sailing Kids
Dec
20
2009
Check the blog out over on ElementalMom.
Tags: family, living aboard
Aug
11
2008
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
Tags: Education, family, intrepid, Sailing, Zac Sunderland
Jun
05
2008
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 [...]
Tags: Education, family, intrepid, Sailing, Zac Sunderland
Feb
22
2008
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 [...]
Tags: art, family, living aboard, simplicity
Feb
06
2008
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 [...]
Tags: clutter, downsizing, family, footprint, liberty, liveaboard, progress, simplicity