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Sailing With Infants?
We recently completed a trip that included two 8 1/2/ legs with 5 yr old and 10 month old daughters.
The kids were just great. This was also their (our) first trip in the brand new 35 '' Catalina. We keep the lower panel in place in the companion way entrance. This does two things: Keeps our 10 mo. old from falling into the cabin below and to our suprise, gives her something to hold on to and rock back and forth for very long periods of time. She also gets to keep an eye on anything happening below decks. Our 5 yr old draws, reads, sleeps and just hangs out.
I have read many articles that provided tips on sailing with children, .. keep the durations short at first.. and so on and so forth. We just went for it not knowing how the kids would do. I should note that temperatures on the return 8 1/2 hr. leg were just about unbearable. Very hot, mugging, lot''s of sun. No relief. The kids and my wife stayed below for almost the whole ride. and had a pretty good( but hot)time.
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