Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Category: Safety Equipment

Safety Equipment expounds on some of the gear we have on our boat to improve our odds of survival including: life jackets, tethers, life raft and a swim enclosure, which adds a measure of swimming off the back of our catamaran.

June 16, 2017October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Sailing with kids? Check out our easy, DIY swim enclosure for catamarans

August 26, 2015October 7, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Our kids arrive on SV Aphrodite

August 22, 2015October 5, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Cracking open our life raft (with video)

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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