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    A PLANET IN TOTALITY

    Dec 14, 2017 6 minutes
    LIFE ABOARD SCAME, AS TOLD BY MOTHER AND SON, JANINE AND TEIKI BALLIAN

    Janine, mother

    My husband Daniel and I first set sail in 1971 on a very small boat that we were delivering from Martinique to San Francisco. It was my first time on a boat, and I knew it would become our life. From that point, I knew I always wanted to live on the water with Daniel, surrounded by nature. It was a lifestyle and we could earn a living without stress, without needing to hustle or fight.

    We sold our smaller boat, which was also a wooden schooner, and we bought the in the Antilles. We hadn’t planned to buy a boat as large as the , but the opportunity came up, so we jumped on it. Our plan was to sail around the world and have a little baby during this time. We sailed back to the Mediterranean to work the boat as a vacation charter, then depart on a world tour, with friends joining us at certain points

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