Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Tag: Galley

Karen painting the underside of our saloon table at Lunas Shipyard in Langkawi, Malaysia.
01/11/202601/26/2026 Lorraine Escher

Learning to Paint with Karen Aboard our Sailboat

Hands showing how the curvature of our hull impacts the amount of usable counterspace.
11/27/202502/12/2026 Lorraine Escher

How Did I Miss the Skill of Measuring with Accuracy?

Eastbay Foreman, Rashid, and another woodworker from Eastbay apply new cherry veneer to a cupboard in our saloon.
10/27/202501/30/2026 Lorraine Escher

Teak and Transformation: Refinishing SV Aphrodite’s Woodwork in Malaysia

07/08/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Galley refits on our St Francis 50 catamaran

06/14/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Preparing for the galley: embracing the pressure cooker

06/06/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Top 10 sexiest refits we’ve made – so far

05/21/201510/05/2025 Lorraine Escher

Thrift store “treasures”

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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