HOME SCHOOL SAILING FAMILY boatlife - books, fishing, fighting - Ep 99

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HOME SCHOOL SAILING FAMILY boatlife – books, fishing, fighting – Ep 99

A common question we get asked is how we educate the children? We have used a combination of teaching methods from traditional schooling to home-schooling to unschooling.
Living on a boat we are easily distracted by nature. When something interesting catches our eye its books down for a field trip to see where the day will take us. In this case dingo tracking, bush tucker sampling and fishing for our supper. We round of the day off with a bonfire on the beach and a spot of fighting.

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
De Joie – All around me instrumental – Musicbed.com
De Joie – All around me – Musicbed.com
David Mumford – Ball and chain

Light sabre soundeffect HQ

WHO ARE WE? In 1997, after missing out on his Olympic rowing medal dream, Rob decided to row a tiny seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. His first taste of a blue water ocean crossing.
Skip forward to 2014, and married with three children we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn 18, Declan 16 and Ivan 13, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed.
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