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by Valorie Lennox
The Review

Paul Howard has a guaranteed
recipe for family togethemess.

Put a husband and wife and two
children on board a 30-foot boat
and sail around the world, cover-
ing 40,000 miles over five years.

“You have to be very compati-
ble, very considerate and not mind
the children on your lap,” Howard
said.

Thursday night he will share
experiences drawn from the first
two years of the trip in a presenta-
tion at the Blue Peter Pub in
Sidney, starting at 7:30 p.m.

He and his wife, Fiona McCall,
have chronicled the entire voyage
in two books: All in the Same
Boat, published in 1988, and Still
in the Same Boat, published in
1990.

He admits a 30-foot boat is
minimum size for circumventing
the globe, especially with two
young children aboard. When the
couple left Toronto on July 1,
1983, son Peter was four and
daughter Penny was six.

“The kids really grew up on
board,’ Howard said. They also
started school and took their first
grades through correspondence
courses.

The family is part of a select
group. Only 450 boats with ama-
teur crews have circumvented the
globe since the first non-
professional sailing around the
world in 1850.

However the trip wasn’t lonely.
An estimated 300 amateur boaters
were making long ocean voyages
at the same time as Howard’s
family. Of those, Howard estimates
20 per cent of the crews included
youngsters.

His own children made friends
from around the world, both with
other sailing families and in the
countries they visited.

“They are very gregarious, ”
Howard said. “When they met
other kids they had to immediately
make fends.”

One family they sailed with for
almost a year came from Australia.
The family retumed home to Aus-
tralia with Howard’s family in tow
and hosted them over Christmas.

Now that family has sailed to
Canada’s west coast and Howard
has come from Toronto for a
reunion.

Continued on Page A18

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A SAILING SHOWER, Paui Howard douses daughter Penny
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30-foot boat.

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