Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

Menu Skip to content
  • Home
  • About the Crew
  • Story Arcs
    • Anchor Chain Series
    • Galapagos Series
    • Laundry Afloat
    • Managing Food Allergies Afloat
  • Family Dictionary: Life Afloat A to Z
  • About Our Boat
  • Subscribe

Category: Refits, Haul-Outs and Buying Gear

Refits, Haul-Outs and Buying Gear takes us out of the water and into the dusty world of boatyards, marinas, and anchorages with a twist of cultural differences and communication gaps roped in — all in pursuit of repairs, upgrades, and the endless quest to improve our boat.

Karen painting the underside of our saloon table at Lunas Shipyard in Langkawi, Malaysia.
01/11/202601/26/2026 Lorraine Escher

Learning to Paint with Karen Aboard our Sailboat

Hands showing how the curvature of our hull impacts the amount of usable counterspace.
11/27/202502/12/2026 Lorraine Escher

How Did I Miss the Skill of Measuring with Accuracy?

A man in a yellow shirt at Brother Lim Cushion in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
11/24/202501/27/2026 Lorraine Escher

A Fresh Start for Our Boat’s Upholstery in Malaysia

Eastbay Foreman, Rashid, and another woodworker from Eastbay apply new cherry veneer to a cupboard in our saloon.
10/27/202501/30/2026 Lorraine Escher

Teak and Transformation: Refinishing SV Aphrodite’s Woodwork in Malaysia

Paul in Power Boat Boatyard, Chaguaramas, Trinidad with our Mantus Anchor 2017 below SV Aphrodite, our St Francis 50 catamaran.
11/05/201710/21/2025 Lorraine Escher

Living with Four Kids in a Boatyard in Trinidad — Turns Out, It Isn’t So Hard to Stay ‘On The Hard’

08/13/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Sleeping on stilts during a refit

08/12/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Successful haul-out in Tampa

07/25/201501/25/2026 Lorraine Escher

New Sedna logo: Isn’t she lovely?

07/08/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Galley refits on our St Francis 50 catamaran

06/16/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Refits update on our St Francis 50 catamaran

Posts navigation

Older posts

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

Blog at WordPress.com.
Becoming a Sailor
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Becoming a Sailor
    • Join 206 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Becoming a Sailor
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...