Post by fish on Jul 5, 2023 21:14:22 GMT 12
This looks very interesting. Extended family cruising with kids done badly. Parents following their dream, regardless of or inspite of their children.
I wonder how many kids have been dragged off on extended family voyages and hated it?
Article from RNZ:
At seven years old, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her family on a three-year voyage around the world. Three years turned into a decade, with little formal schooling and many tensions between Heywood and her parents.
It all ended in Aotearoa, with a teenage Heywood looking after her younger brother and her Dad’s business. This unusual childhood is the subject of her new memoir Wavewalker: Breaking Free.
In the first year of the voyage, in the Indian ocean, they were hit by a terrible storm, she says.
“I'm a small child, I'm seven years old, a seven-year old girl down below deck, and I'm thrown up against the ceiling of the cabin, against the wall of the cabin, I fractured my skull, break my nose. And then of course, we almost sink.
"The boat starts filling up with water and we keep pumping. We have two crew members on board. They're pumping, my parents are pumping.
“Three days later, we make it to a tiny atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean, where I receive multiple head operations without anaesthetic to try and fix the damage from the accident.”
Luckily the atoll had a tiny French base, and a doctor, she says.
“It had a doctor who had a very, very small medical facility, but unfortunately didn't have the ability to do anaesthetic for these operations.
“So, I had to endure them without anaesthetic. So, it really was for me, the whole thing, the wave, the aftermath and the operations on this island something that haunted me for years afterwards.”
The hematoma from the skull fracture would have resulted in brain damage without the operations, she says.
Life on board the boat was pretty grim in other ways, she says.
“I'm afraid it was quite a sexist environment. I was expected to work below deck, cooking and cleaning.”
Her relationship with her mother started to deteriorate as well.
“I'm not the only daughter who's had a very difficult relationship with her mother. But what makes this interesting in a way is we're trapped on this boat, and we can't get off.
“I have no friends, I have no one to contact. And the trip just keeps on going, for year after year after year.
“So, the relationships on the boat become very intense, and there is no way to escape.”
www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018896685/suzanne-heywood-how-a-family-sailing-trip-became-a-nightmare
Book Link:
www.harpercollins.com/products/wavewalker-breaking-free-suzanne-heywood?variant=41011116507170
I wonder how many kids have been dragged off on extended family voyages and hated it?
Article from RNZ:
At seven years old, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her family on a three-year voyage around the world. Three years turned into a decade, with little formal schooling and many tensions between Heywood and her parents.
It all ended in Aotearoa, with a teenage Heywood looking after her younger brother and her Dad’s business. This unusual childhood is the subject of her new memoir Wavewalker: Breaking Free.
In the first year of the voyage, in the Indian ocean, they were hit by a terrible storm, she says.
“I'm a small child, I'm seven years old, a seven-year old girl down below deck, and I'm thrown up against the ceiling of the cabin, against the wall of the cabin, I fractured my skull, break my nose. And then of course, we almost sink.
"The boat starts filling up with water and we keep pumping. We have two crew members on board. They're pumping, my parents are pumping.
“Three days later, we make it to a tiny atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean, where I receive multiple head operations without anaesthetic to try and fix the damage from the accident.”
Luckily the atoll had a tiny French base, and a doctor, she says.
“It had a doctor who had a very, very small medical facility, but unfortunately didn't have the ability to do anaesthetic for these operations.
“So, I had to endure them without anaesthetic. So, it really was for me, the whole thing, the wave, the aftermath and the operations on this island something that haunted me for years afterwards.”
The hematoma from the skull fracture would have resulted in brain damage without the operations, she says.
Life on board the boat was pretty grim in other ways, she says.
“I'm afraid it was quite a sexist environment. I was expected to work below deck, cooking and cleaning.”
Her relationship with her mother started to deteriorate as well.
“I'm not the only daughter who's had a very difficult relationship with her mother. But what makes this interesting in a way is we're trapped on this boat, and we can't get off.
“I have no friends, I have no one to contact. And the trip just keeps on going, for year after year after year.
“So, the relationships on the boat become very intense, and there is no way to escape.”
www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018896685/suzanne-heywood-how-a-family-sailing-trip-became-a-nightmare
Book Link:
www.harpercollins.com/products/wavewalker-breaking-free-suzanne-heywood?variant=41011116507170
