I'm Renx and this is my first blog (or vlog!) to document my dream of buying a boat and go sailing around the world with my husband and three kids.

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right so we we've got some adventures

planned and we want to keep a record of

what we're going to do and that's why

we're vlogging it rather than vlogging

it because vlogging is both be the in

thing what okay so our adventure that

we're planning is to go sailing with the

kids maybe we'll go where around the

world maybe you won't I think I remember

talking about it over 10 years ago maybe

15 years ago about doing it so I'm going

to be doing blogs on this whole process

some vlogs on finding a boat then maybe

something on home education because

we'll be having to homeschool the kids

and maybe you're planning the route as

well what really might take there's

going to be some on concentrate on how

you feed clutter and clear your house

outs there will be some on the kind of

work that I do lifeboat crew that's

voluntary so I'm sort of standby

lifeboat crew when I'm working and doing

stuff on the house work down the marina

on yachts down there help out my husband

and his business yeah you made this

whole kitchen kind of like a teamwork

effort on everything really

and then by three o'clock it's time to

go to the kids up so then it's all kids

and then I do stuff for myself in the

evening as well so the way that we're

going to pay for this trip or these

travels is from renting out our house

I love traveling I love seeing new

places I think if we're careful we'll be

able to afford it if we won't be having

any bills because hopefully we'll have

solar power will have wind power we

won't be paying rent and we'd be angered

out most the time way to worry about

clothes so much so there's been a lot of

preparation for this trip and it starts

with trying to clear a whole house rebei

Gumtree car boot sales both jumbles some

of it given away and some bits going

into storage yes so getting the kids

ready for

it is another thing in itself getting

vaccinations medical insurance tips and

alternative medicines also making sure

that after state is up to date quite a

few people probably think it's a really

bad thing to do with your children to

take them out of the security of a house

and a school you can get on is's you can

be pirates on one hand it be really

great because we'll be with the kids all

day and every day and that's a fantastic

thing to do while the kids were young

and but on the flip side it could be

quite difficult teaching children age 5

8 11 by then making sure that they're

not behind all the other kids and that

they're enjoying it I do take them down

to a sailing club where they've learning

to sail little boats themselves which

gets them into that idea they seem quite

excited they don't seem to mind the

unknown as much as that out I think it's

quite adaptable so searching for a boat

is a project in itself we've been

looking for years we were going to get a

mana hold then we kind of talked about

the idea of a catamaran we went to see

him on a whole they wouldn't accept her

offer so went to a catamaran we were

very nearly going to buy it but an altar

survey we decided that wasn't the boat

to go all the way around the world and

we know we'll never find the perfect

boat so one keep telling us but as all

of our savings are going into this boat

we're going to try and get the best boat

we can get so I'm going to try and do

weekly vlogs and failing that'll be at

every other week what - coming here to

introduce me

oh that camera I was into this camera

like this thing because it is just like

a real film you got right on it so I got

some choc-ice to go get some chalk

you've got to

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I've always wanted to

circumnavigate the world. As a kid I've

always wanted to sail completely around

the world, do a circumnavigation and I

still want to do it and now I have, you

know, I have a husband three kids and I

still want to do it with them, just about.

I think if you're traveling and you go

to remote places, you get to see amazing

things landscape, marine life, fauna and

flora exploring all these different

places that's kind of what I want to do

with the kids. It would be like a

voyage of discovery. We know roughly the

route that you might take it's a fairly

standard route that follows the trade

winds. We don't know how far we get but

there's so much to see out there and

it's a great way of doing it. Making that

journey as a family, doing it as a team

seeing how the kids can cope with their

own responsibilities. That's another

thing I think there can be so many

benefit from that that maybe we can't

even describe at the moment. When you're

out on a boat you don't have an

electricity supply or a water supply or

guest supply. A lot of people will use a

water maker to make their own water. You

will use solar power and wind power and

occasionally you will have to use

generator which means getting fuel. But

the idea of being self-sufficient and

even sometimes catching your own fish

and trying to source your own food in

different countries where you get it

from or do you do an exchange with

people. And I think that also can teach

children a lot because I think

children are very detached nowadays from

where things come from. Everything's

provided for them. Teaching the kids to

be more appreciative actually of where

things come from and actually having

that motivation themselves - if they do

this then they get a result and I think

it's very difficult to teach child that

but when they experience it and they

realize that there is a limited resource

of everything I think they really learn

that and I really want to teach my

children that. So the idea of living

autonomously without a school without

all the resources that we have at a

click of a button I think it can be

nerve-racking in some ways because you

know you are left to fend for yourselves

but I'm excited about that as well.

Without having the school, yeah that

makes me more nervous because I think

the teachers are wonderful, they do a

great job and their kids love being with

other children so we're going to have to

provide that that would be more tricky

but I'm hoping that the world will

become our children's classroom and

they will learn from the world from the

different cultures, the different ways

that people live as well as sitting down

and doing their maths and English on the

boat. So we're looking for a boat that

most importantly is seaworthy because we

won't just be sailing in light weather

conditions there will be sometimes heavy

weather sailing so it's got to be

seaworthy especially as when we're

taking our kids with us it's obviously a

big responsibility. We also need a boat

that can accommodate us all as well as

extra people when we go on long ocean

passages so we need a boat with at least

three cabins, one for us and two other

cabins. Ideally you would have a boat

with four cabins but it's very rare to

get a boat of that size that we can afford.

The other thing is there's a lot of

things we need on it. We need to have a

water maker we need to have a generator

we'd like to have wind power we'd like

to have an SSB radio, a satalite phone. There's

lot of things we would love but obviously

everything costs money and we have a

budget. So the way that we can afford

this is because we've lived in tiny

little places, doing them up selling, got

to our final house where we've divided it into

half so we live in a smaller

part of the house we rent the other half, so we sacrifice a bit of space so

that we can save up and keep our savings

intact. It's not a huge budget but we've

done it through working really hard all our lives and

saving up ourselves. What

you trying to find out Woody?! Can we start off again Woody?

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