Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Category: Life Afloat

Life Afloat captures what everyday living is like aboard our catamaran, SV Aphrodite. This category explores the challenges of our early years afloat with four young children and the routines we’ve settled into a decade later. Here you’ll find how we manage practical things like laundry, provisioning, medical emergencies at sea, homeschooling on the move, and welcoming guests—while celebrating milestones and reflecting on life along the way.

July 12, 2016October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Beans! Beans! Beans! Abandoning meat in the DR

June 24, 2016October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Kindness Ashore: A Fisherman in Luperón

June 10, 2016October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Baseball: learning a game, and understanding a field of dreams in the Dominican Republic

May 27, 2016January 30, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Overcoming seasickness and ditching Dramamine

April 24, 2016October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Heading into hurricane season

April 9, 2016October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

On the docks: a series of unfortunate events

March 25, 2016January 27, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Making connections in Georgetown, Bahamas

February 28, 2016October 5, 2025 Lorraine Escher

New cruisers regroup

January 17, 2016October 7, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Tornado watch In Florida

January 2, 2016January 27, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Bahamas – plans derailed

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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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