Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Category: Travel and Destinations

Travel and Destinations transports you to the places we’ve explored. More than a sailing log, my writing aims to let you hear the voices, see the sights, smell the air, and feel as if you’re right there with us.

Paul leaving SV Aphrodite and his family for the first time at the Langkawi International Airport
03/16/202603/28/2026 Lorraine Escher

Paul Leaves SV Aphrodite to Crew from the Bahamas to French Polynesia

A side-by-side image of the Taipei 101 climbed by Alex Honnold in January 2026 and a land diving event on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu.
01/26/202602/20/2026 Lorraine Escher

The Spectacle Seekers: From Taipei 101 to Pentecost Island

Our niece, Jorja, from Calgary in front of the Bridge of the Americas, Panama.
09/26/202502/12/2026 Lorraine Escher

Crossing the Panama Canal Doesn’t Just Move Your Boat from One Ocean to Another — It Moves You to a Completely Different World

Margaret from Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, sitting outdoors with Karen and a local village boy under a large tree
02/04/202401/30/2026 Lorraine Escher

What We Ate Sailing Through Micronesia and Melanesia: Markets, Farming, and Fishing

Karen and Henry inspect the octopus
01/05/202401/29/2026 Lorraine Escher

Reef fish, octopus and sea cucumbers for the dinner plate (Chuuk, Micronesia)

01/02/202401/25/2026 Lorraine Escher

Diesel filling in Micronesia with video, and no police involvement

06/23/202303/19/2026 Lorraine Escher

Live tracker: Where is in the World is SV Aphrodite Right Now?

Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Eight Bathers painting.
06/20/202312/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

An Octave of Women: Shades of Contrast in Fiji

05/28/202310/10/2025 Lorraine Escher

Fiji: making stew using a hot spring

Lorraine is offered Kava drink from the chief during a Fijian sevusevu welcoming ceremony in Savusavu.
05/26/202310/04/2025 Lorraine Escher

Sevusevu Ceremony and First Time Kava Drinker in Fiji

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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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