Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Tag: Anchoring and mooring

Our niece, Jorja, from Calgary in front of the Bridge of the Americas, Panama.
September 26, 2025October 10, 2025 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

Diver Michael and Lorraine watch the Mantus anchor retrieval from the bow.
September 18, 2025November 6, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Part 3: Diving for a Lost Anchor: A Salty Ballad from Phuket

105-lb Mantus Anchor with anchor chain
September 13, 2025October 20, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Part 2: Losing our Ground Tackle: A Continuation of our Malaysian Anchor Chain Debacle

Rick Escher, sailor, skipper, husband amazing human
September 5, 2025October 20, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Part 1: Re-galvanizing our anchor chain. What could possibly go wrong? Adventures at Pangkor Marina Malaysia.

May 24, 2023October 13, 2025 Lorraine Escher

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

May 19, 2023October 19, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Sailing at night – New Zealand to Fiji

July 25, 2020October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Waiting for Gonzalo

October 16, 2017October 21, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Oil Spill in Trinidad – We are Floating in a Horrible ‘National Disaster’

February 4, 2017October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

‘Mayors’ of the harbour in the US Virgin Islands

November 14, 2016October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Heavy rain in the Dominican Republic closes school for at least a week, and our kids vote, “Yay!”

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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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