Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Category: Fiji

Fiji blog posts offer a glimpse into our stay in this beautiful and very friendly country where we cooked food in a hot spring, assisted another catamaran in distress and tried drinking kava.

Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Eight Bathers painting.
June 20, 2023December 5, 2025 Lorraine Escher

An Octave of Women: Shades of Contrast in Fiji

May 28, 2023October 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.
May 26, 2023October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Sevusevu Ceremony and First Time Kava Drinker in Fiji

May 24, 2023October 13, 2025 Lorraine Escher

We have stopped for the night, 60 nm to Savusavu, Fiji

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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