Good point about Dave and Jaja. Reading their stories in the 90’s was a huge
inspiration to us when we were making our plans to take off in 2009. I still
have one of their Cruising World cover stories as bathroom reading in our
basement (the one where he’s standing on the spreaders in a survival suit
scanning the horizon with binoculars)
The only issue I take with Dave and Jaja is not from a parenting perspective,
but when they decided to freeze themselves into the arctic ice for a full
winter. Personally, I think boats do a lot better when the water’s in liquid
form and the ice is in your drink.
Cheers,
Colin
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From: Jack Brennan
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 3:13 PM
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As an old newspaper guy and web producer, I’ll say this clearly is a case of a
blogger knowing how to stir the pot to get a great deal of clicks and attention
...
The fact is that there are many families out there cruising with small children
and nothing bad happens, just as there are families out there traveling in cars
and campers. You could make a good statistical argument that it’s more
dangerous to drive your kids in a car than sail.
Should families not go on driving trips because someone went in an old car,
broke down and ended up in danger?
Interestingly, no one made a fuss in the pre-Internet era when the Martin
family did a circumnavigation on a CAL 25 – with three children being born
along the way, including one when they were AT SEA.
http://www.cal25.com/page11/page42/WorldCruiser.html
Jack Brennan
Former C&C 25
Shanachie, 1974 Bristol 30
Tierra Verde, Fl.
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