
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.


Grocery list for passage planning – starting with a bare fridge and pantry

We bought our first boat: SV Aphrodite is ours

Boating in the 70s

Taking inventory of our sail boat

Outfitting a boat for the first time

Transferring boat ownership: hire a marine documentation specialist. Get`er done.

Dead poets reveal sailing experience

We bought a boat

