As you can see by the responses above yours, that is hardly a typical
experience. If you have an unwilling mate to begin with, perhaps, but
then the boat was probably an issue already.

*Everything* you do with a child around for the first 5-6 years requires
a fair amount of additional planning, but the alternative is to stay at
home, in a rut, until they are old enough to understand there are some
dangers in life.

David Martin and his wife Jaja brought their three children home to a
boat, and the kids didn't live on land full time until the oldest was
about 5-6, and that was about a year while he was refitting another boat.

In fact I would recommend the original poster to check out "the Martin
chronicles on SetSail.com, the Dashews site, it's well worth the read.

Jonathan

Keith wrote:
Most people around here who have a boat, then a baby, see the boat maybe
once or twice over the next year or two before they sell it. YMMV.