[Alberg30] elementary aged kids and sailing

[SandersM at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/25/01 5:52:03 AM, matteobeth at juno.com writes:

<< Can give me the skinny
on how kids this age do on the boat? >>

I have a seven-year-old who has been on my A30 since she was five.  She LOVES 
the idea of the boat, and enjoys brief forays around the harbor on it, and 
playtime aboard her.  But she loses patience for longer daytrips and 
overnighters.  My liimited experience tells me that small kids and cruising 
do not mix easily.  

At first, I was prepared to chalk blame it on the pernicious effects of TV on 
the attention span of American youth.  But then I remembered the looong car 
trips my parents would make each summer from Norfolk to their parents' homes 
in Tennessee, which even now I recall as interminable exercises.  So perhaps 
it is not a sin of television but a general condition of the age that does 
not tolerate long-legged travel well.  

Are we there yet?

Sanders McNew
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