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A photo of our kids running along the beach of Lake Superior with a banner of our tent and van with the text The Road Trip that Changed Everything, referring to the 60 day camping trip we took the summer before we bought our St. Francis 50 catamaran, SV Aphrodite.
01/01/202406/23/2026 Lorraine Escher

Why We Want to Sail

A photo of SV Aphrodite anchored in Langkawi, Malaysia
12/07/202306/21/2026 Lorraine Escher

About Our Boat

A picture of someone walking on a hike in Grenada during a Hash House Harriers run
12/11/202106/21/2026 Lorraine Escher

Long Reads Grenada

Henry with a local Dominican boy outside Wendy's bar near Luperon harbour, Dominican Republic where we spent hurricane season with our catamaran and four kids
12/06/201606/22/2026 Lorraine Escher

Luperón Long Reads — Boat Kids Go Local

Luperon Long Reads Building a Hurricane Moorring with input an design review by Bruce Van Sant
08/03/201606/22/2026 Lorraine Escher

Luperón Long Reads — Designing and Building a Mooring for Our 50-foot Catamaran

An image of Henry and Paul driving our dinghy with SV Aphrodite in the background next to an image of the track of hurricane Matthew in 2016 when we stayed in Luperon for hurricane season.
06/06/201606/22/2026 Lorraine Escher

Luperón Long Reads — Waiting Out Hurricane Season

Long Reads: Exumas Stories. A picture of Betty and Paul on the beach at Shroud Cay.
05/24/201606/21/2026 Lorraine Escher

Bahamas Long Reads — Exumas Stories

A Nurse Shark that we seriously feared in the Jumentos, Ragged Islands and other islands south of George Town.
05/23/201606/21/2026 Lorraine Escher

Southern Bahamas Long Reads — Beyond the Exumas

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