In short
Before we moved aboard SV Aphrodite in 2015, our daughter Betty, then nine, wrote down why she was excited to go sailing. Her list: swimming, learning to drive the dinghy with her dad, exploring islands, reading on the trampoline, packing her backpack, warm weather and sleeping under the stars. These are a boat kid's first words about life afloat, saved before she had spent a single day living aboard.
I’m excited to go sailing because I love swimming and my dad said he would teach me to drive the dinghy! I’m excited to explore islands and I love to read and will be able to read on the trampoline. I’m excited to pack because for some reason I love to pick stuff up and shove it in a backpack. Yay!? I’m excited to go because it always really warm! I think? Or I have heard. I will get to sleep under the stars that’s exciting right. Those are the reason I’m excited to go sailing.
By Betty, age 9
