Our second kid ran a 103°F fever the week we were reading the DAN manual for the fifth time. My wife looked at me and said, “This, but nine hundred miles from land.” Here’s the offshore medical kit I’ve actually settled on for four kids.
Six people in a dinghy is two trips, an overload, or a different dinghy than the one you thought you wanted. Nine months of pencil work and four constraints later, here is what I am buying.
I priced our first year on a 50-foot cat for a family of six line by line. The number keeps coming out to $174,000 — and the spread between honest budgets and forum fantasy is wider than people think.
Behan Gifford argues you should optimize the boat for the 90% case, not the worst night — and with four kids and a 50-foot deck, that's making me rethink the layout question.
