
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.


Diesel filling in Micronesia with video, and no police involvement

Why We Want to Sail

Shallow water blackout while freediving: what happened to our son, Paul

About Our Boat

SV Aphrodite equipment list 2023

Betty, age 17, joins a medical mission in Papua New Guinea

Visiting the Peter Joseph Museum in the Solomon Islands: A Backyard Full of World War II History

Family ER at Sea: A fish hook to the face in Munda, Solomon Islands

