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On 20 Oct 2004 20:09:45 -0700, (Parallax)
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Good advice, P. Thanks for your thoughts.
I have given up getting my kids interested in navigation as they just
do not seem connected in the same way. Kids are not carbon copies of
parents and constantly surprise me.
No, of course not. I may have a couple of advantages here in that my
wife is the daughter of a boat builder and is quite comfortable on
board, particularly at the helm. She knows how to work everything, but
forgets the nautical names G. She also enjoys the foredeck at 35
knots, although I need to rig downhauls for her 105 lb. frame G
I came to sailing in my 30s, despite being the son of a merchant
seaman, so maybe it's in our blood.
My son at three knows the difference between a boat and a ship (three
masts or more, Daddy!) and assumes it's perfectly natural to sail off
in search of treasure, pirates and what not.
How long all this will last, I agree, is unknowable, but while I am
the driving force behind going offshore for a few years, I am not the
"dragging" force...if I couldn't fill the house with tenants while we
were gone I couldn't swing the expense of cruising for very long, and
for that I need my wife's "buy in", as well as for the job of
"home-boat schooling" our kid, which will likely fall to her.
I wonder if it ever occurs to anybody that bluewater cruising allows
kids to make practical use of trigonometry in a meaningful way? Never
mind calculating amp-hours, SOG, and general chart work, which can be
quite map-oriented...
R.
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