He
and I'm sailing around the world with my parents
and sometimes my brother.
Bringing in the Genoa.
See right there, Elly.
Go Elly.
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So my dad is a crazy sailor
with big hair, and my mom is my mom.
She is half First Nation and
those are my parents.
When I was five years old
I was coming down from my room in the morning
and my dad said, "Guess what".
And I said, "What?" and he said, "We bought a sailboat
and I'm going to sail you around the world".
Mom:
Yes.
Should we buy it?
Yes, we should.
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Today I woke up and I brushed my teeth and ate breakfast
and then I got ready and we went into town
and went grocery shopping
and I came back and helped fix stuff with my dad all day.
I am my dad's working helper, I guess you could say.
I help him with things to fix on the boat.
Elly: This is our wind generator
and it takes energy from the wind, like a windmill...
And solar panels,
and we take energy from the sun with these
and use it to power the boat.
This is the water maker and we are changing the filter.
First the water goes through a sea strainer,
then a filter, then a pump, and then a membrane.
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When we're on long passages we don't stop at night.
We go all through the night because there's nowhere to stop.
So we take turns to give other people a break.
My shifts are from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00
and from four o'clock in the evening
until eight o'clock at night.
Four, three...
..two... one...
..zero. Oooh, we're on the equator.
I've had shifts when it's at night, it's dark out,
and there's thunder crashing all around me
and current and stuff. So that's harder.
And there's some days where there's no wind
and you're just using your motor and going slow.
So those are pretty easy, so it depends.
I also scuba dive.
And I've seen lots of things scuba diving:
cuttlefish, clownfish,
jellyfish, all sorts of stuff.
We're having a visit with some whales.
Look how beautiful they are.
They look like dolphins but they're whales
because they don't have a snout.
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I have books and I also kind of just make my own school.
My mom helps me with it sometimes.
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