Author: Lorraine Escher
Canadian writer and sailor. Honours BA in English Literature (Carleton University) and a decade as a senior technical and marketing writer at Nortel Networks and Alcatel. Since 2015 Lorraine has lived aboard the St Francis 50 catamaran SV Aphrodite, homeschooling four children while cruising the Caribbean, crossing the Pacific, and working toward a circumnavigation. Her cruising writing has appeared in SAIL Magazine, All At Sea, and Caribbean Compass.
First Squall: Finding a Safe Anchorage
Child Safety on a Sailboat: Our Kids’ First Day Aboard
Cracking open our life raft (with video)
Catamaran Test Sail: Putting SV Aphrodite Through Her Paces
Organizing our boat with skipper, Mark Burton
Our First Boat Haul Out: Everything Is New
Successful haul-out in Tampa
Becoming a Sailor: Discovering an Alien Landscape
