Becoming a Sailor

More Than a Decade Afloat • Raising Sailors • Stories from SV Aphrodite

Our story in six chapters, in the order we sailed it.
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Before We Moved Aboard
From House to Sailboat: How a Road Trip Changed Us
Buying Our St Francis 50 Catamaran
Learning to Sail From Scratch
Our Family Camping Gap Month
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Florida and the Bahamas
Living on a Sailboat With Kids: Freedom or Confinement?
Crossing the Gulf Stream
Off the Beaten Track Bahamas
Bahamas Long Reads: Exumas Stories
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The Caribbean
Luperón Long Reads: Boat Kids Go Local
Dominica Travel: If Outside Magazine Visited
Rough Offshore Sailing in a Gale
Long Reads Grenada: 6 Stories From Our Sailboat
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Panama and the Pacific
Crossing the Panama Canal
Shellback Ceremony at the Equator
Long Reads: Galápagos
Sleep Deprivation at Sea
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Melanesia
Heavy Weather Sailing: NZ to Fiji
Sevusevu Ceremony in Fiji
Land Diving on Pentecost Island
Shallow Water Blackout
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Micronesia to Southeast Asia
Lagoon to Table: Subsistence Fishing
Losing an Anchor in Thailand
322 Days in a Malaysian Boatyard
Bangla Road Phuket
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By Topic
Learning to Sail
Downsizing & Moving Aboard
Sailing With Kids & Homeschooling
Boat Projects & Gear
Health & Safety at Sea
Food & Provisioning
Family, Crew & Guests
Writing & Creative
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Category: Imagining Life Afloat

Imagining Life Afloat describes my early thoughts about what it would be like to live aboard. The decision to sail around the world happened in an instant, but I spent much longer thinking through the details.