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.
Great Scots, 20 knots!
Our kids arrive on SV Aphrodite
Cracking open our life raft (with video)
Test sailing SV Aphrodite
Organizing our boat with skipper, Mark Burton
Sleeping on stilts during a refit
Successful haul-out in Tampa
Motoring in Tampa Bay
