Encourage the Children to Enjoy the Boat

[billmacfarlane]

The Tinker Tramp is easily the best tender I've used and is a fairly mediocre sailing craft but good fun to sail round an anchorage. I'd be wary of using a liferaft though. It's very fiddly to set up every time you want to use it. I'm just about to take delivery of a new Tramp - sailing and tender , but I'm going to use a separate life raft.

 

[salamicollie]

My boy is 12 - he is kept busy with books /gameboys etc - he is quite happy to help when the conditions are light and when it gets heavier he repairs to the quarter berth with a book (iron stomach!) - generally bribery of chinese or Indian meal required at end of sail helps.

Don't have same problem with SWMBO except (thankfully) considerably more cautious re the weather than me

 

[graham]

My 6 year old commandeers the heads which he pretends is a ships radio room .He then spends hours at a time sending out realistic maydays and talking to imaginary ships on a dead vhf set.

His elder brother decided he didnt like sailing at the age of 7 so we did not force him but now is enjoying it again.

I dont think we have the right to force our kids to sail if they find it boring ,frightening or whatever.

 

[lezgar]

Our best family holidays have been the flotilla sailing holidays in the BBV and Greece, but if I tell to the family about a sailing holidays in the UK weather I have to go single handed.

My daugther doesn't like sailing and never come sailing with us in UK, but she enjoyed a sailing holiday in warm climate visiting a different beach every day with no more of 3 o 4 sailing hours.