Message Archive
Research Into Travel Benefits For Cruising Children
I am currently working on a PhD at the University of Montana that involves an educational plan for middle school children based upon travel experiences. My research involves interviewing youngsters (preferably between the ages of 11-15, although not absolute) who are cruising. For more details click on the Noonsite report link
Pen Pals Wanted
posted November 2005
Hi my name is Molly. My family and I are planning to go cruising in the Caribbean this year and I would like to learn what it is like cruising from some kids my age. I am 11 and live in Canada. Email: cverra@sympatico.ca
Hello My name is Isabel but people just call me Izzy. I live in Belleville. My family is going sailing for a long long time so I would like to get to know some more sailing or power boating kids. I am 9 years old. My favorite place to sail to is Main Duck Island but there is not many ducks there. It is in Lake Ontario. It is not much fun to go there but when you get there you will know the trip was worth it. We went to the Thousand Islands and Main duck island and sandy cove this past summer. At Sandy Cove I got a collection of fisherman stuff I found on the island. I found so much stuff it could barely fit in my tackle box. A little boy whe went there found a fishing rod and I wish I found it even though it wouldn't work. What is it like living on a boat for so long? My longest time on a sailboat was two weeks. It felt like so long but it wasn't really in the long time we were sailing we had so much fun. My mom was not so happy because we did not catch very many fish and my mom was looking forward to eating fish. Well I guess this is it. I've nearly told you everything I did on my sailboat so I hope you write me.
ps I hope you write me bye........Izzy
Email: cverra@sympatico.ca
Advice On Sailing With Medical Issues
posted October 2005
msxl2@sailmail.com
Hi all, We are on our way south and west with two kids 8 and 11. We
are in Portugal at the moment. The youngest child has a
condition known as central congenital hypoventilation
syndrome (CCHS). Essentially for him this means that he has
a ventilator to support him at night as his breathing slows
down to the point where he would stop breathing. We have had
a great time working things out for him and it is working
well at the moment. We are on the verge of going further
afield and away from europe which takes us away from
whatever support services we had relatively close by. We
would be very glad to hear from anyone who is dealing with
medical issues whilst cruising. We can share our experiences
which may be valuable to both. Cheers S and S.
Advice Wanted On Sailing With Teenagers
posted Aug 2004
go_cow61@yahoo.com
Myself and partner Scotty are going to purchase a yacht 40-45ft, we have 2 teenage sons named Mitchell 15yrs and Luke 13 and we are in the process of looking to buy a yacht and go cruising next year. Scotty is the one with all the
sailing experience and I'm sure we'll learn soon enough. We read a lot about cruising and trying to get all the info we can handle, will do navigation course etc. Are there any teenagers that can send their stories,pics etc. How about education, like do you do correspondence or how does that work. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you and safe and happy cruising you lucky, lucky people.
Advice wanted for circumnavigation with kids
posted May 2004
sophi@onetel.net.uk
Hi, Sophy and Chris And Otti (9) and Mimi(6) are preparing a Warrior 40' for a circumnavigation, cruising west France/Spain summer '05 and doing Arc 2005 to Caribbean.
Has anyone got advice for child friendly boat add-ons as we refit this autumn/winter? We are unsure how the kids are going to cope, and would really welcome any help, thanx!
Babies and cruising
posted July 2004
hstreiner@yahoo.com
We are hoping there are some people out there who may be able to provide some advice. We are a couple in our 30's, hoping to have children and go cruising with them. Can anyone provide any feedback on cruising with young (baby aged) children. How did they fare in passages? Foreign countries? Meeting other children? Doctors or medical issues? Any feedback or advice would be most appreciated. We live on our 42 foot sailboat in Vancouver, Canada and will be out cruising soon! Thanks, Heather & Tim.
Bitxeno
posted Feb 2004
Hello friends, We are a family from Donostia, on the north of Spain. Our 3 babys (2,7, 0,7 and 0,7), my wife (35) and me (37) now sailing Med with our Bitxeno (Hallberg Rassy 42). Our plans are spent all of 2006 on Caribbean islnds and countries. By this time our babys will be 4,5, 2,5 and 2,5 years old. We would like to contact people or families with the same plans for this time, or doing now the similar with similar baby ages. Contact please bitxeno@emailpersonal.com
Dragonsinger
posted Jan 2004
www.davidgreer.ca/cruise, david@davidgreer.ca
We are a Canadian family that spent two years cruising the Mediterranean. Thanks so much for the Noonsite cruising family Web page. We made email contact with several
people via the site and actually managed to connect up with a couple of boats. We left Dragonsinger in Bodrum, Turkey and flew back to Canada to resume our land-based existence, albeit with a changed world-view. We are always happy to receive email messages
and answer questions from any other cruising families on our experiences.
LOUNGTA
posted Sept 05
http://voiles.blogspot.com
Hello, We leave around the world on our yacht LOUNGTA the 1 June 2006. Old steel cutter 20 years old and 10 meters. Dan, Emmanuelle and Fleurette (11 years). Yours, Dan.
Melika
posted April 04
www.salttreader.com, melika@salttreader.com
Hello fellow cruising families. My wife and I are about to rejoin our boat in Trinidad with a very young new crew member. We sailed to the Caribbean from the UK two years ago, returned to the UK to start a family, and are now on our way back. Our lovely baby daughter is 7 months old and will be growing up on a cruising boat for the next few years (maybe longer). We would love to get in touch with other cruising families to swap advice, organise meetings etc and to share in the joy of having children on board. Best regards, Steve, Lyn and Katie.
S.V. Uliad
52' Custom Kanter Aluminum Cutter; Empacher design, posted Oct 03
One 10,000 mile (Newport, RI to Grenada and
back) cruise 2 years ago is under our belts and we are planning our next one for 2005. Uliad is sold
and we are searching the globe for a cruising
catamaran. Kids, Cammi (6) and Cole (4) are excited to get back to water life. They spent a year and half aboard, ages then 1 and 3. Our next cruising goal is NZ/Aust via
Panama approximately in 2005. We are hooked; what an amazing gift to our family unit. Contact: Monique & Tom Burgess; mburgess@uliad.com. Caribbean logs at: www.uliad.com.
S/V Grace
posted July 2003
www.otterbacher.org, craftotter@aol.com
We have lived aboard Grace since August of 1998, crossing the Atlantic three times in the past four years. We
have spent winters in the Florida Keys, London, England,
Sevilla, Spain, the Caribbean, and are currently in Paris, France. We have two bright and beautiful daughters, Katie age 14 and Erin age 10. We agree with Sharon and
Randy on Uhaine Kai that it is difficult to find
cruising kids in the Med and applaud Noonsite for helping us get in touch. You can find out more about our family at our web page, www.otterbacher.org or
email us at craftotter@aol.com.
SV Epifania
posted Feb 2005
We are an American family with a crew of 3 which consists of my husband, Les, myself, and our 12 year old daughter, Dakota. We are planning on leaving San Diego for Mexico in October of 2005 in the Baja Ha-Ha. From there, we are tentatively planning on a 2006 South Pacific crossing and then onto the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Med. We would love to hear from other families about their experiences and plans, especially if you have kids our daughter's age and/or are planning on a 2006 Pacific crossing. Please contact us at lesbentz@flash.net. Fair winds, Tammy
Single Mom with 9yr old girl
Feb 06
sjensen@slingshot.co.nz
Hi to all the families out there. I'm looking for an opportunity for me and my daughter to sail around the world. I'm Stella and my daughter is Shelley-Ann. If any of you are interested in having extra "family" on board please let us know. We are in New Zealand but are from Namibia originally. We would be able to help on the boat and pay for food etc. This would be a dream come true. Stella.
Blueprint Match
posted 16 September 2005
www.gregoadventure.com, gregoadventure@yahoo.com
The Grego Family on S/V Blueprint Match-43' Catana in search of kids to play with our kids. Our son in 2.5 and daughter is 1. We are now waiting out the Hurricane season in Maryland and will be sailing south in November with the Carib1500 team. We will be around the Caribbean for the next few months and south from there. Anyone going to be in this area during this time? Contact us at gregoadventure@yahoo.com. www.gregoadventure.com.
Imagine
posted Nov 2004
http://oneals.blogspot.com, bobbijooneal@hotmail.com
We will be departing September 2004 from Charleston, SC heading South to the Bahamas and the Carribean. We have a 9 year old son and would love to hook up with other cruising families. We will be aboard our 36' Gulfstar Trawler IMAGINE. You can reach us at bobbijooneal@hotmail.com or check out our blog at http://oneals.blogspot.com
Kids Aboard in East Coast and Caribbean
posted Nov 2004
We are ready to make major life changes (rent the house, leaves from jobs etc) so that by early summer of '04 we will be on board in the New England area with our two boys, ages 8 and 10. We then plan to head south for a roundabout of the Caribbean and transiting the Canal to return back to California by summer '05. We will be actively seeking out other families for mutual support, schooling issues, and kid fun along the way. Hope to hear from you. Contact us at blueeyes4@comcast.net
S/V Makai
posted September 2005
captaindanny@yahoo.com
Hello, We're the S/V Makai, a Cal 3-30 that stays mostly in Florida waters and the Caribbean Sea as of late ('05). We sailed from Los Angeles in 1993 and since we found the Carib., we have stayed. The crew: Danny, Korin, Justin (will be 5, Nov. 16) Mandy (turned 2, May 25). You can reach us at captaindanny@yahoo.com. We're always looking for kids that our kids can terrorize, I mean play with:-) Also, we are always looking to share tips so they terrorize us less!
Good tips and tricks are a great thing to find. We're the friendly types so say hello if you please.
May your anchor be tight, your corks be loose, your rum be spiced and your compass be true. Captain Danny Taddei.
SV Quintessence
posted Jan 05
Hello there, Dan (41), Linda (45) and Dylan (11) are cruising slowly down the US East Coast this winter. We plan on heading to the Bahamas on or about March 1st 2005 and plan on staying until late June. We are interested in meeting up with other boat kids in the same age group as Dylan. Email us at SVQuintessence@hotmail.com or log on to hahano.com to check out where we will be.
Snowcat
posted Nov 04
www.masseyadventure.com
We are a family from Colorado in the midst of our third
year of cruising. Aboard our Catana catamaran,
Snowcat, we sailed the Mediterranean, crossed the
Atlantic and are currently exploring the U.S. East Coast.
We plan to winter in Central America. Our twin
11-year old sons would love to connect with other cruising
kids. We can be reached at deanrmassey@aol.com or
check out our family website.
YellowBird
Hi, this is Rebecca and George. We live aboard our 30ft Grampian with our two children Sienna and Ryder. Our boat is in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. We would love to hear from anyone coming through. Maybe we could get our kids together. The name of our boat is YellowBird. Give a knock on the boat if you are coming through and recognize us, it's the yellow sailboat!
Australian Cat traveling from Caribbean to Oz
posted April 2005
karabilpark@bigpond.com
2 Boys (Sean -14 and Callum -12) traveling from the St. Martin to Oz via St. Croix, Puerto Rico, Cartagena, Panama, Galapagos, French Polynesia, Fiji, Noumea and New-Caledonia. Hope to be through Panama early May, home mid-November 2005. We are looking for any other kids who we may be able to meet-up/travel with. We will appreciate any corespondance. SV Daydream.
Blueprint Match [see above]
S/V Makai [see above]
SV Quintessence [see above]
Sailing The Caribbean
posted October 2005
amoeba@ns.sympatico.ca
We will be in St Maartin in December, cruising for 6 months, we have two girls aged 16 & 13. We would love to hook up with any other families in the area. Bev Bryson.
Yacht Danza
posted Nov 04
www.worldvoyaging.com
We are an American cruising family from Edgecomb, Maine
with 4 kids,
David, 16, Sarah, 14, Jasper, 12 and Charlotte 7. Our
parents, David Nutt
and Judy Sandick, insisted on coming along. We left Maine in
March 2000 and after sailing the Caribbean and South Pacific, our route will continue across the Indian Ocean, up the Red Sea to the Med and then on across the Atlantic in December 2004 and back to our home in Maine in June of 2005.
Email us at
nuttdavid@hotmail.com.
Australian family with 2 boys
posted March 2005
We are an Australian family with 2 boys - Damon aged 11 & Mitchell aged 7 - who will be sailing from Langkawi to Thailand in April 2005. We are then planning to sail down to Christmas Island and Darwin before going on to PNG, Louisiades, Guam, Palau, Carolines, Solomons and Fiji. Then sailing home to Brisbane by the end of September 2005. We would love to hear from other cruising families who will be in the area and anyone who has any advice about crusing with kids. Contact: Donna & Kelvin - donna@bluewaterdreamin.com.
Cruising with Kids - Australia to Phuket 2005
posted December 2004
sailfreebird@hotmail.com
Freebird is a 35 foot Hallberg Rassy sloop with Lance, Jane, Mackenzie (3), and Samantha (1) on board. Lance and Jane departed the US in 1999 and spent 3 years in New Zealand where the kids were born. We'll be cruising northern Australia to Phuket in 2005 and then westward either via the Med or South Africa in 2006. We're looking forward to meeting other cruising families and would like to hear from them.
Reflections IV
posted Nov 04
www.reflectionsiv.com, reflectionsiv@hotmail.com
Location: Phuket. We are on the hard here at Boat Lagoon Marina till September 2004. Plans are to head across Indian Ocean in early 2005. Probably go Sri Lanka, Maldives, Chagos, Seychelles, Tanzania & Kenya. Then up into Red Sea (Oct/Nov). Plans always change and love to meet up with some kid’s on boats. Children onboard: Anna, (9); Courtney (12).
S/V Uhane Kai
posted Nov 04
Kai (13), Randy and Sharon are in Hawaii and Seattle area until Nov 1 2004 when we go back to Uhane Kai in Kota Kinabalu Sabah Borneo. Contact us on
1coconutkai@pocketmail.com Sharon Lowrie
Advice On Wintering in Turkey
posted Nov 2004
bill@delphinusstones.com
We are headed to winter in Turkey - where are the families likely to be? We have three children 13, 10, 7 and are headed for Turkey for the winter. Kemer, Bodrum, Marmaris?
Any kids wintering in Greece or Turkey?
posted Nov 2004
vsru4@sailmail.com
We are liveaboard family with two daughters 1 and 4 years old. We would like to spend winter 2004/2005 in Hania (Crete) or Kemer (Turkey). Are there any other families out there who will winter anywhere in Greece or Turkey? Please, contact us at vsru4@sailmail.com.
Any young families heading South from Northern Europe to Med this year?
posted Feb 2005
We will be heading to the Med this year (Atlantic route), leaving at the end of April, target Barcelona by mid October, via Brittany and Vendee to La Rochelle, then cutting corner to Gijon. We have 2 kids aboard, Poppy (b. Feb 03) and Chiara (b. Dec 04) and would like to know of any other families with young children on the way South, particularly for our (almost) 2 year old to meet up with. Yacht Barrique. eMail kangaloosh "at" hotmail "dot" com
Boat children in the med summer/autumn 2005
posted May 2005
My name is Tiger and I am 5 years old. I would love to be in touch with fellow boat children in the Med. We have wintered in Rome and are planning to move down the Italian coast to Sicily and then to the Ionian Isles. Mum says we might winter in Levkas, but she is always changing her mind. You can email me at alexinaofshoreham@hotmail.com.
Family Cruising in the Med
posted Aug 2005
micha@ayakar.net
Hello,
We are a family of 5 (3 kids 12-10-8) and will be picking up our boat in Spain (July 2005) and doing shakedown cruise in the Baleares along with adding various equipment. Then
cruising to Sardinia, Italy, Greece and wintering in Tunisia or Turkey. If you have similar
plans and cruising with kids, please drop us a line.
Also if you know the area and the best chandleries for equipment and quiet anchorage for
a family, this would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Micha.
GILANA
posted March 2005
http://www.seakin.com/gilana/default.htm
Hi, We are a family on board GILANA, Van de Stadt Ketch. We will be in the Med for 2005 possibly based in the Balearics and looking to meet other boats with kids. Our Liz is 16 and needs some company and stimulation from peers. We know the area well and can be of assistance to other cruisers. Please visit our web page for more info.
Kids In The Med
posted Nov 04
phillida@eircom.net
We are an Irish/Aussie family cruising in the Med with our 3 children Oisin (boy) 10, Cian (boy) 7 and Soracha (girl)3. We would love to meet up with other families in the Med. We spent last winter 2003\4 in Marina Port Vell Barcelona and are currently (July 2004) in Sardinia and going east. We are not sure where we will winter this year but possibly Barcelona again. Are there any other families out there who plan on wintering in the Med and if so where? All the best, Phillida and Tedd.
Med with Kids
posted May 05
rvarriale@hotmail.com
Hello, we are a family cruising the Med with 2 children Camelia 9 and Vasco 5, we are looking to meet other cruising families, we will be in the Ionian islands during the summer 05, maybe up to Croatia and then Turkey and...
Roberto, Maryse, Camelia and Vasco.
Seeking children in the Med summer 2004
posted Nov 04
jaimie@gmn-usa.com
Hello, we are an American family with 2 children, Jaimie 8 yrs and Sky 5 yrs, cruising the coasts of France, Italy and Croatia during the summer of 2004. Our approx. plans are to follow the coast and islands of Italy heading south for the month of July. We hope to be in Croatia for August. After which, we must start heading for Gibraltar and on to the Canaries for the 2004 ARC. Then on to the Pacific. Our plans become rather vague at this point and, of course, are always subject to change. We would love to hear from any fellow cruisers, and particularly those with kids. We can be reached at jaimie@gmn-usa.com
YACHT ROCARD
karinandchris@pocketmail.com.au
KARIN AND CHRIS GRICE. CHILDREN: LAUREN DOB 21 MAY 1999, BEN DOB 06 JUNE 2001.
Red Sea transit early Feb 2004, looking for convoy, slow transit up the Red Sea to take in sights. Turkey?
Australian Cat traveling from Caribbean to Oz [see above]
Australian family with 2 boys [see above]
Canada To South Pacific
posted Nov 2004
rowlings@incentre.net
We are a family of 4 (kids are Damon age 12 and Willow age 9) we currently live in Jasper National Park, but will be purchasing a sail boat very soon and leaving the beauty of the Canadian Rocky Mountains for the South Pacific. We are very excited about sailing the world with our children and although the kids have a few issues with leaving their friends (and social life) behind they are also very excited. We plan to homeschool the kids - there are a lot of great options in Alberta for doing this. We have spent time back country hiking, skiing, and camping with the kids and know how positively the parent/child relationship can be in this type of situation. We would love to hear from other families about their experiences (good & bad)sailing with their children. Looking forward to cruising - Kim
Cruising Families - South Pacific 2005
posted April 2004
We are a family of four (parents plus son, 13 and daughter, 9) about to leave Mexico for the South Pacific. We would like to find other families heading the same way, although we do have a habit of cruising off the beaten track. Mom and Dad like it, but the kids get tired of being the only kids around! We plan on heading north across the equator instead of to NZ or Australia for cyclone season. Karryn Dean, svseafire@hotmail.com
Cruising with Kids - Australia to Phuket 2005 [see above]
DELOS
53 ft Amel Supermaramu ketch , out of San Francisco, posted Nov 2004
Tel:cell phone +34 609 158 089
delosatsea@yahoo.com
DELOS has been out for almost 4 years, with 2 or 3 kids aboard, depending on the time of year. We have James (14) Avery (12) and Drew (17). We leapt the pond in December 2003 and overshot, landing in Bonaire, then Panama. We will leave for the Galapagos early April, then to SP. There are 14 cruising boats with kids headed to SP from Panama. Kids' net for Pacific crossers is 8122 SSB on MWF at noon EST (1800 GMT). The plan is New Zealand (Tauranga) in November 04.
Christine and StephanChristine Myers KG6BQL; Stephan Regulinski.
La Boheme
posted Nov 04
http://www.superboheme.com, luc_lussier@yahoo.ca
We're a family of 5 (plus two cats) and have been traveling on our Super Maramu 2000 called La Boheme since Nov 2002. We started in La Rochelle, France and sailed to the Caribbean in 2003 and have passed Panama and are now in Moorea (near Tahiti). Our plans are to stay here in Moorea until May 2005, and then sail west to New Zealand next year (July - Nov 2005). Cheers, Luc Lussier.
S.V. Ace
posted Nov 04
www.malindi.com
Our family (Mary, Lou, Emily (birthdate 2/7/94) and Martin (birthdate 7/4/95)) left San Francisco on September 15, 2003. We are currently in Mexico and are heading to Central America to spend May through December. We may spend some time in Ecuador before going to the Galapagos. We are planning to cross the Pacific in March 2005. We are having a great time discovering the world and ourselves!
S/V Ohana
posted April 04
www.sailingohana.com, ohana@ocens.net
We are Paul and Becky Berger aboard
S/V Ohana, a 50' Nimble Catamaran. Our girls are Madison, age 8 and Kelsey, age 5. We made it across the Pacific and are now settling in to Opua New Zealand. Would love to correspond with other families getting ready to head out across the Pacific with children.
SV Epifania [see above]
SV Juana Lucina
Cruising families from Australia to Indonesia, on to Thailand, posted Nove 2004
juanalucina@hotmail.com
S/v Juana Lucina will be back on the cruising track this season of July 2004 to 2005. Our crew is William, myself (Nikki) and our daughter Gabrielle (who will be 15 on the
24th of June). We have been sailing on and off since 1995, working and cruising and flying back and forth to be with our vessel Juana Lucina, whereever we need to stop.
We are originally based in Hawaii, but travelled from Florida through the Eastern Caribbean, through Central America (Panama), through the South Pacific to New
Zealand, back to South Pacific to Australia and now are returning to Australia to continue our travels after a landlock of 2 years in Hawaii. We are interested in
meeting other teenagers and cruising families, it would be great to meet up with those who surf as well. We will be up on sailmail as well, once underway. Hello again to old friends and we welcome new ones as well. Aloha Nikki DeHeart.
Kids Aboard
http://www.kidsaboard.com/
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