With my 10-month-old daughter sailing across the Sea of Cortez. November 2013.
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When we hit the emergency beacon on our sailboat to get our 13-month-old the medical attention she needed, I fully believed I was a good parent who was making the right choice. A lot of people disagreed.
It was only our second date when my husband told me he wanted to sail around the world. As a lifelong traveler, I jumped at the chance to join him. Ten months into dating, we bought our sailboat together, a 36-foot Hans Christian cutter-rigged sloop, and named her Rebel Heart. Hans Christians are called âbluewaterâ boats because they are designed to cross oceans. We set about making sure we would be as ready as our vessel to sail across oceans too.