What Happened to Our Kids' Social Lives at Sea: Two Skippers, One Village

We're the Wood family - Woody, Irenka and 3 kids circumnavigating on a sailboat for 8 years • ~40,000 miles • ~40 countries & territories• BOOK RELEASE June 2026: "Mothership Adrift: A Dad's Guide to Escaping the Rat Race and Living a Life of Freedom, Travel and Adventure on the Sea with Your Kids" https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook--🎬 AS FEATURED IN:▷Amazon Prime's "Adventure in Wonder" - Sizzle Reel: https://youtu.be/0YJSjKO4js8 - Trailer: https://youtu.be/7OfAmECKj7E▷The Telegraph: We quit rat race for eight-year sailing adventure- Read Through: https://youtu.be/5NnprymsWC0 - Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activity-and-adventure/eight-year-sailing-adventure/▷The Telegraph: We spent 8-year sailing around the world. This was the scariest part- Read Through: https://youtu.be/w7tgipworFE- Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/trips-of-a-lifetime/red-sea-around-the-world-sailing/▷BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ep8w192yno▷BBC South East Today: https://youtu.be/BuJe4VtLLmQ▷GB News: https://youtu.be/KN5yhpD1csA▷Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/we-are-raising-kids-sea-during-covid19-1530315▷Yachting Monthly Award Winner: https://youtu.be/Y1icRewwML8▷Lonely Planet: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/families-living-on-the-sea▷Full press: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/about--MORE MOTHERSHIP CONTENT:🎙️ Share this Podcast channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MothershipAdriftPodcast📺 Travel and Sailing channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipadrift🔧 Learn how we fix our boat: https://www.youtube.com/c/Mothershipmaintenance📧 Free book chapter: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook💙 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift🌐 Website: https://www.mothershipadrift.com📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mothershipadrift👥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mothershipadrift---People worried our kids would have no social life at sea.They had hundreds of friends across 40 countries. Irenka built the village. She joined knitting groups, scared families into staying in the marina with creative weather forecasts, arranged play dates 3 weeks in advance across 2 countries, and tracked teen boats across the Pacific. I found the whole thing quite exhausting.In this episode we go back through 8 years of building a social life on the move. The Kids For Sale Facebook group. The Mormon families and the lost city in Colombia. The gravitational pull of a 5-boat convoy. Screen time rules. And Yewan arriving at the local skate park to find it completely empty.Coming home turned out to be harder than being away. Friendships on land form through repetitive routine. Our kids have never had thatTwo Skippers, One Boat. Same journey. We don't always agree on what happened.8 years of that social life is on the main Mothership Adrift channel. 250 videos of it. Link above.---💙 SUPPORT OUR CHANNELS:A big THANK-YOU to our MOTHERSHIP PATREON family who make these videos possible. What is a Patreon? A Patreon is a regular person like you, who helps content creators like us, to make entertaining and useful stuff like this! If you'd like to help towards the filming, editing and data costs of our Mothership Adrift channels, please: ▷ Click the SUPER THANKS button below the video ▷ Follow the Paypal link: https://paypal.me/Mothershipadrift ▷ Follow the Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift---KEYWORDSsailing with kids social life, boat kids socialisation, worldschooling social life, sailing family community, cruising community kids, liveaboard family social life, two skippers one boat, mothership adrift podcast, sailing kids friendships, boat kids coming home, family circumnavigation socialisation, buddy boating families, kids for sale sailing network, sailing teens social life, reverse culture shock children#TwoSkippersOneBoat #FamilySailing #MothershipAdrift #Worldschooling #BoatKids #SailingWithKids