A Not "Normal" Life - Raising a Family at Sea - Kids, Homeschool, Repairs in TONGA (Ep. 71)
The week our family is exploring Tonga! We sail to Tonga and catch a tuna on the way. We raft up to another boat at the customs dock and wait to officially check into Tonga. Jack finds the Tonga flag and marks this country on our map! We hop around the different anchorages of Tonga with 5 or 6 other kid boats exploring caves, celebrating birthdays, wing foiling, and going to a Tongan feast. We start the process of applying for our New Zealand visas. Boat life is not complete without boat repairs - our watermaker and windlass start having issues. Our windlass leaves us pulling up our anchor in a hurry with our electric winch. We see the most beautiful island of Tonga and John gets injured while we are there. We talk about how we homeschool and about some of the books and programs we use. We provision up and refuel.
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00:00 Kid Boats Going to Tonga
00:20 Sailing to Tonga
00:59 Fish On!
01:57 Arriving in Tonga at the Customs Dock
02:39 Fresh provisions and meeting up with kid boats
02:49 Beautiful anchorage with sailing families
03:07 Seeing the Caves of Tonga
03:29 Do Our Kids Socialize?
05:14 Tongan Feast
05:34 Moving anchorages
06:30 Filling out New Zealand Visas
07:49 Watermaker Problems
09:41 Cannot Get Our Anchor Up - Windlass Problems and Repair
12:00 John and Juju at the Beach
12:29 Beautiful Uninhabited Island of Tonga
12:43 John Gets Injured
13:20 How we Homeschool
13:57 Provisioning in Tonga
16:28 Fuel Run
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