Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Category: Provisionning

Provisioning shares how we plan, shop, and stock up to travel to remote places. I’ll tell you where to find cabbage that beads with freshness, and how we make coffee in places where espresso doesn’t exist. Beyond that, Provisioning covers the Olympic sport of hauling groceries out by dinghy and finding space for it all aboard.

Shows weevil larvae in pasta
January 13, 2024October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Weeviling: managing weevils on a sailboat in Micronesia

May 22, 2023October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Team carrot: creatively eating contraband on the way to Fiji

December 8, 2016October 5, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Recipe: No dairy mint chocolate chunk ice cream without an ice cream maker

July 12, 2016October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Beans! Beans! Beans! Abandoning meat in the DR

November 29, 2015October 5, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Grocery shopping at sea: a multi-sport event

Ingredients for homemade icecream for a boy who lives on a sailboat with food allergies.
October 14, 2015October 19, 2025 Lorraine Escher

DIY Ice Cream: Living Off-Grid but Not Exactly Roughing It

Provisions on SV Aphrodite, dry processed goods
September 5, 2015October 20, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Meal planning and provisioning for a family afloat: six suggestions for cruisers

March 14, 2015October 6, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Grocery list for passage planning – starting with a bare fridge and pantry

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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