Are you a small boat cruiser?

[Jim Cate]

Don, I gotta question: why do you want to sequester small boat sailors away from the bulk of the forum? I don't get it! Even though I've not cruised in a smaller boat for several decades, I'm interested in the subject, and as a cruiser who has voyaged in boats from 22 to 46 feet, I might even have something to contribute.

So why hide from me? I really don't get it!

Jim

[Jim Cate]

Don, I gotta question: why do you want to sequester small boat sailors away from the bulk of the forum? I don't get it! Even though I've not cruised in a smaller boat for several decades, I'm interested in the subject, and as a cruiser who has voyaged in boats from 22 to 46 feet, I might even have something to contribute.

So why hide from me? I really don't get it!

Jim

[Jim Cate]

Don, I gotta question: why do you want to sequester small boat sailors away from the bulk of the forum? I don't get it! Even though I've not cruised in a smaller boat for several decades, I'm interested in the subject, and as a cruiser who has voyaged in boats from 22 to 46 feet, I might even have something to contribute.

So why hide from me? I really don't get it!

Jim

[boatman61]

Everyone musta moved already..
Theres one helluva echo today..

[Pete7]

Great find, they are just out there doing it and seem to be having a ball.

Pete

Originally Posted by wolfgal

when i grow up, i wanna be a .... small boat cruiser!

yesterday...instead of translating, ahem, ...i succumbed to researching boats, ahem and..., i stumbled onto to this blog.

check out this Danish family on their little 28' boat! they descended the european canals, popped across the med, down to the canaries and crossed the Atlantic. still at it, they just left Recife and are heading north. the kids are about 9 and 5 years old.


https://schourup.net





wolfgal

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

Don, I gotta question: why do you want to sequester small boat sailors away from the bulk of the forum? I don't get it! Even though I've not cruised in a smaller boat for several decades, I'm interested in the subject, and as a cruiser who has voyaged in boats from 22 to 46 feet, I might even have something to contribute.

So why hide from me? I really don't get it!

Jim

Sorry Jim, you've gone over to the dark side, er,... big side... yer out now, there's a new secret handshake and password now
we're the secret club that likes to put on the coffee, cook breakfast, trim sails, adjust course and put on some new music and never get up from the settee to do it... now what could a super maxi mega yacht captain like you have to offer?

[Don C L]

Originally Posted by wolfgal

when i grow up, i wanna be a .... small boat cruiser!

yesterday...instead of translating, ahem, ...i succumbed to researching boats, ahem and..., i stumbled onto to this blog.

check out this Danish family on their little 28' boat! they descended the european canals, popped across the med, down to the canaries and crossed the Atlantic. still at it, they just left Recife and are heading north. the kids are about 9 and 5 years old.


https://schourup.net




wolfgal

Great stuff. See, now, to my mind, that is the way to do it with kids. Start with small steps, things that are manageable. Not necessarily such a small boat, but the canal trip, then the Med and then moving on to bigger things as everyone gets to feeling more confident and adventurous and ready.

As a tangent, if anyone is from Santa Cruz here they may have heard of, or known, Marry Duffield. Really amazing woman. I met her and her crew of 5 boys ages 10 to 18 I think, in Santa Barbara on their way down to Mexico on her 30 something wood boat in 1978 or 79. She had taught them all while sailing around Monterey Bay and then the reward was to go to Mexico while talking to the world on the ham radio. Remember, those days no GPS, chartplotters or roller furling etc. What those kids could do and the self-confidence they had was a revelation, and an inspiration, to me.

[Don C L]

The social group gets some activity once in a while, it could use more!