Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Category: Organizing Gear

Organizing Gear is a collection of posts about the equipment we carry and how we arrange it so every item is retrievable within 30 seconds or less. Much of our storage holds spares — hardware, tools, parts, or even full replacements — along with the chemicals needed to keep everything in working order.

Fedex picking up our three boxes in our friend Carl's apartment in Miami.
August 27, 2025October 7, 2025 Lorraine Escher

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

August 17, 2015October 5, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Organizing our boat with skipper, Mark Burton

March 7, 2015October 6, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Taking inventory of our sail boat

January 12, 2015October 6, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Packing for sailing training in Antigua

January 11, 2015October 6, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Crewing Gear list for Antigua

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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