Today we were reunited with 3 other kid boats that we have been sailing with! Our American friends on Mrs. Chippy were there. We have known them since November 2017. We met in Sicily, where we spent the winter together in the same marina. That was a fun time. 8 families, with a total of 23 kids, living in a marina, playing, partying, doing educational activities together.
We all ended up doing our own thing after everyone sailed out of Sicily in the spring of 2018, then met up again with Mrs Chippy some months later to cross the Atlantic together. We have become great friends – the kids are so close they behave more like family now!
Boat Names
Bazo and No Worries were in DC too! Here I should explain that when you’re a sailing family, you take on the name of your boat. We are no longer the Kindlers. We have become Spacegrazer, or the Spacegrazers, or even the Grazers…
So, Bazo was there. We met this Israeli family in Cape Verde, just before crossing the Atlantic. They left a day after us and arrived in Barbados just before we did! And Barbados is where we met our Dutch friends on No Worries. We sailed together with them for a while, from Saint Martin to Florida via the British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, and the Bahamas.
We all met up this afternoon in downtown DC, near a bunch of food trucks, for lunch. The kids had a blast, running around and playing together. After lunch, we dropped all the kids off in Bazo’s apartment, to be supervised by the oldest kids…
Time for the grownups to go off for a drink! It was great fun catching up with everyone. One of the best things about this sailing lifestyle is all the cool people we meet along the way. There are phases when we are surrounded by other boating families and we’re very social and busy. Then there are times when we’re alone. It’s always hard to say goodbye to friends when we go our separate ways. But luckily we often get to catch up again with members of our sailing tribe in exciting new places.
