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    Sailing home

    Dec 11, 2020 3 minutes
    Words Federico Monsalve
    Photography
    Paul McCredie

    Liisa hand-made a flag that read ‘boys aboard’. The idea was to hoist it onto the mast of their catamaran while approaching a new port, thus alerting other boatie families that young children had arrived and any form of socialising would be welcomed.

    To understand this Kerr Ritchie–designed house one has to go back to 2012 when Liisa, her partner Patrick, and their two preschool children set off from Florida, on a voyage that would take two years.

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