Kids

Our kids were one of the main reasons of us moving on board. Clara boarded Santa Paz, when she was one year old, and sailed with us for two years. Julia our younger girl, was conceived onboard, while we sailed Spanish waters.

Santa Paz has been planned to host kids with safety and fun.

Sandra gave birth to our first daughter on June 11th, 2002. We named her Clara and she filled our lives with light, we felt love growing all around us. As a catalyser, Clara’s birth changed our ideas of what life is all about. As Sandra was still pregnant we could see the strength Clara was bringing to our lives, the moment I realized I was to become someone’s Father, unimagined courage blew in me. Countless doubts felt down with the strength only big passions carry. I am to confess I’m completely in love for the baby that with only two was laready criyng to me she’s no longer a baby. – I’m a girl.

Above all Clara made us believe once again dreams are possible. And with this belief they came from imagination to reality at light speed. On less than seven months of considering a sailboat journey for the first time, we’d made a major research on sailing, chosen a sailboat and moved on board.

Six month after a very acute curve of learning we were renting our home, selling our jeep and starting to talk on circumnavigating. She was a little more eight hundred days and could already drive me mad, test all my limits. Do exactly the opposite of what is been asked to her, just for the sake of letting us no she understood what we sad and that she is not doing it. How to teach her tolerance?

As we quickly noticed speech means nothing to a young human being. Clara learns by example and to change her behaviour we have to change ourselves. It is a tough job, but challenging. The other nice thing is that Clara grows with us pursuing our dreams and that she already learned, she pretty much knows what she wants.

She can already speak very good Portuguese and starts with the first words of English and Spanish. Our boat has no more than 46 square meters. Clara sleeps on the bow V cabin where are three cabinets full of toys stored on plastic bags that she loves to mix so daddy and mommy can organize. Her favourite tale is the one of the party on the clouds for which the frog was not invited and decided to hide on one of the bird’s trombone to sneak in. Clara loves water, and can already swim without her armbands.

Júlia, our younger girl, was born on July 18, 2005. Conceived during the time we were sailing in Spain, she crossed the Atlantic on her mother´s belly, and deboarded after seven months of pregnancy. Three weeks after she was born, Júlia was already sailing with us.

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