Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Tag: Fiji

June 8, 2023October 11, 2025 Lorraine Escher

The Far-Reaching, Humble Breadfruit: Unleashed by Explorers and Trade Winds

May 31, 2023January 3, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Removing our rudders in the water, and towing another catamaran

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

May 22, 2023October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Team carrot: creatively eating contraband on the way to Fiji

May 20, 2023October 13, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Losing a rudder 500 miles from Fiji

May 19, 2023October 19, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Sailing at night – New Zealand to 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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