002: Sailing the World, Living Off Gird and Homeschooling the Kids - Planning stage!

Ever since I was a child, and even before I learnt to sail, I had dreams of circumnavigating the globe on a yacht. Having a husband and three children of my own hasn’t diminished that lifelong ambition – it just take a bit more planning – but it looks like we might be heading off soon. All we need is a boat!

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I’ve always wanted to circumnavigate the world. As a kid I’ve always wanted to sail around the world, do a circumnavigation and I still want to do it and now I have a husband three kids and I still want to do it with them.. just about.

I think if you’re traveling and you go to remote places, you get to see amazing things – landscape, marine life, fauna and flora exploring different places – that’s kind of what I want to do with the kids. It would be like a voyage of discovery. We know roughly the route that you might take it’s a fairly standard route that follows the trade winds. We don’t know how far we get but there’s so much to see out there and it’s a great way of doing it.

Making that journey as a family, doing it as a team seeing how the kids can cope with their own responsibilities. That’s another thing I think there can be so many benefit from that – maybe we can’t even describe at the moment.

When you’re out on a boat you don’t have an electricity supply or a water supply or guest supply. A lot of people will use a water maker to make their own water. You will use solar power and wind power and occasionally you will have to use generator which means getting fuel.

But the idea of being self-sufficient and even sometimes catching your own fish and trying to source your own food in different countries where you get it from or do you do an exchange with people. I think that can teach children a lot because children are very detached nowadays from where things come from. Everything’s provided for them. Teaching kids to be more appreciative of where things come from and actually having that motivation themselves – if they do this then they get a result and I think it’s very difficult to teach child that but when they experience it and they realise that there is a limited resource of everything I think they really learn that and I really want to teach my children that.

So the idea of living autonomously without a school without all the resources that we have at a click of a button I think it can be nerve-racking in some ways because you know you are left to fend for yourselves but I’m excited about that as well. Without having the school, yeah that
makes me more nervous because I think the teachers are wonderful, they do a
great job and their kids love being with other children so we’re going to have to
provide that that would be more tricky but I’m hoping that the world will become our children’s classroom and they will learn from the world from the different cultures, the different ways that people live as well as sitting down and doing their maths and English on the boat.

So we’re looking for a boat that most importantly is seaworthy because we won’t just be sailing in light weather conditions there will be sometimes heavy weather sailing so it’s got to be
seaworthy especially as when we’re taking our kids with us it’s obviously a big responsibility. We also need a boat that can accommodate us all as well as
extra people when we go on long ocean passages so we need a boat with at least
three cabins, one for us and two other cabins. Ideally you would have a boat with four cabins but it’s very rare to get a boat of that size that we can afford.

The other thing is there’s a lot of things we need on it. We need to have a water maker we need to have a generator we’d like to have wind power we’d like to have an SSB radio, a satalite phone. There’s lot of things we would love but obviously everything costs money and we have a budget. So the way that we can afford this is because we’ve lived in tiny little places, doing them up selling, got to our final house where we’ve divided it into half so we live in a smaller part of the house we rent the other half, so we sacrifice a bit of space so that we can save up and keep our savings intact. It’s not a huge budget but we’ve done it through working really hard all our lives and saving up ourselves.

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