Larry W4CSC wrote:

And how long should they wait before bringing a baby home to a normal
house? Right outside the door are dangerous roads and highways!

What's this? Denial?

Being on a boat is much more dangerous, especially to a defenseless infant,
than riding in a carseat.

Denial? Maybe not. The CG Accident reports started reporting "AGE OF
INJURED VICTIM BY TYPE OF VESSEL" in the last two reports. The total
number of injuries for children under 12 in auxiliary sailboats in
2002 and 2003 is one. They don't have the same breakdown in previous
years, but the rough evidence implies this is not an anomaly.
(Especially if you don't count the two children that drowned in a Mac
26x rollover 4 years ago.) Infants don't belong on jetskis, but I'm
not sure you can make a case that a well handled larger sailboat is
that dangerous.

http://www.uscgboating.org/statistic...stics_2003.pdf

BTW, shortly before leaving on our trip our 4 year old daughter hit a
post running into the day care center. We spent a morning in the ER
having here forehead superglued together. This was worse than any
injury on our year long cruise. In fact, since I got out of dinghy
sailing, there's never been an injury on any kind in any of my boats.
However, several months after returning from the trip, my wife blew
out her Achilles playing soccer. I'm not at all convinced cruising is
more dangerous than being on land, especially if appropriate care is
taken.