Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Category: Packing up and moving

Packing Up and Moving describes how we transitioned from life in a house to a life on a St Francis 50 catamaran. The blog posts in this sub-category covers the pure chaos of downsizing to being able to reflect back and provide some lessons learned and checklists.

A composition pin that includes four checklists I created after moving from a house to a sailboat as a family of six from Canada.
12/28/201503/14/2026 Lorraine Escher

Checklists for the BIG move: moving from house to boat

07/18/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Audio clip from our first CBC Radio interview

07/17/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Logistics: strategies for getting from house to boat

07/12/201501/27/2026 Lorraine Escher

Stress-free camping? Not here.

07/10/201502/13/2026 Lorraine Escher

A visit from CBC Radio’s Stu Mills

07/05/201503/01/2026 Lorraine Escher

Camping solo with four kids

07/01/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Happy Canada Day!

06/29/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

We’ve moved out – the adventure begins

06/28/201503/14/2026 Lorraine Escher

Shipping our gear to Florida

06/23/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Tent unoccupied: the reluctant campers

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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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