"Skip Gundlach" skipgundlach sez use my name at earthlink dot
fishcatcher (net) - with apologies for the spamtrap wrote:

Just a snippet from GMBs post here (BTW, Tom sends his regards):

There was a couple with a boat like ours (Jean Marie) that did a
circumnavigation with girls that were 10 and 14 and both of them
seemed to have turned out well.

The girls from Jean Marie have done radically more than "all right." I
can't begin to recite the accomplishments and differences between them and
the usual student - but I'm sure their dad and mom would happily expound.

I don't see or hear from Tom much anymore (I've only been to the
Florida west coast once recently and that was in 2001, and I met Tom
and Jean in person once at an SSCA meeting in 1999) and I didn't
remember off the top of my head exactly what the girls had done
academically or even what their ages were or whether they were 10 and
14 when they finished or when they started out. Glad to hear they are
all well.

They're a few boats down from us as they do a complete refit in Salt Creek
Marina, and I've had several opportunities to chat them up in the course of
going by.

Suffice it to say, if you're involved, caring and willing to put in the
work, kids who are home schooled - let alone in an international environment
where they have to create their own entertainment as well as learn by
osmosis - should easily outdistance conventionally schooled kids, and do it
on less than half the time, to boot (no waiting for the slowest, no
bureaucracy, no reviewing for the first 3 months to re-implant what was lost
over the summer, etc.).

L8R

Skip and Lydia, trying desperately to get the boat finished before money
and/or time runs out

We're in Miami Florida now by car. We aren't sailing down the ICW for
awhile - Bob feels it is too stressful and there isn't enough chance
for actually sailing down here.

grandma Rosalie