Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Author: Lorraine Escher

I’m a Canadian writer from Ottawa who spent 10 years in high tech before heading out sailing. When we began I had no sailing experience but was keen for the adventure. With my husband and our four children, we've travelled halfway around the world, as we complete a full circumnavigation aboard our St. Francis 50 catamaran, SV Aphrodite. Here, I share what it’s like to homeschool at sea, maintain a boat, and explore new cultures as a family afloat. This blog is also on Pinterest.
Betty with her hand-drawn Montserrat flag. Later, she laminated the flag and we flew it on our boat,, SV APhrodite, with pride.
10/23/202501/27/2026 Lorraine Escher

Betty’s First Essay: The Soufriere Hills Volcano

Karen Escher, boat kid and young artist, works on illustrations for the Princess and the P's Boardgame.
10/09/202501/24/2026 Lorraine Escher

Karen Escher Draws: The Card Game She Illustrated on Our Boat at Age 10

Our niece, Jorja, from Calgary in front of the Bridge of the Americas, Panama.
09/26/202504/10/2026 Lorraine Escher

Crossing the Panama Canal Doesn’t Just Move Your Boat from One Ocean to Another — It Moves You to a Completely Different World

Diver Michael and Lorraine watch the Mantus anchor retrieval from the bow.
09/18/202502/18/2026 Lorraine Escher

Part 3: Diving for a Lost Anchor: A Salty Ballad from Phuket

105-lb Mantus Anchor with anchor chain
09/13/202503/12/2026 Lorraine Escher

Part 2: Losing our Ground Tackle: A Continuation of our Malaysian Anchor Chain Debacle

Rick Escher, sailor, skipper, husband amazing human
09/05/202503/10/2026 Lorraine Escher

Part 1: Re-galvanizing our anchor chain. What could possibly go wrong? Adventures at Pangkor Marina Malaysia.

Lorraine Escher on a flight to Kuala Lumpur for trigger release surgery
08/28/202504/10/2026 Lorraine Escher

Getting Fit After 50: The Remark That Changed My Routine

Fedex picking up our three boxes in our friend Carl's apartment in Miami.
08/27/202510/07/2025 Lorraine Escher

Delivering More Than Just Parcels: A FedEx Story on Today’s Silk Road

08/08/202410/08/2025 Lorraine Escher

Alfred Escher remembered

Margaret from Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, sitting outdoors with Karen and a local village boy under a large tree
02/04/202401/30/2026 Lorraine Escher

What We Ate Sailing Through Micronesia and Melanesia: Markets, Farming, and Fishing

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Welcome to Becoming A Sailor. I've written more than 250 posts about our travels on our St Francis 50 catamaran. We have been sailing since 2015, and our four kids have grown up on our sailboat. This is not a sailing log. Instead, it's an immersive record of a life afloat. I write to recreate the moment, whether we're standing on a volcano or cleaning our boat bottom.
- Lorraine

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