Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Karen Escher painting the keel in Langkawi, Malaysia.
04/13/202604/14/2026 Lorraine Escher

Karen paints our keel. An artist’s challenges are not what I would have expected.

Karen painting the underside of our saloon table at Lunas Shipyard in Langkawi, Malaysia.
01/11/202604/22/2026 Lorraine Escher

Learning to Paint with Karen Aboard our Sailboat

Hands showing how the curvature of our hull impacts the amount of usable counterspace.
11/27/202504/23/2026 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

Fedex picking up our three boxes in our friend Carl's apartment in Miami.
08/27/202510/07/2025 Lorraine Escher

Delivering More Than Just Parcels: A FedEx Story on Today’s Silk Road

Miele W1 washing machine on SV Aphrodite, a St Francis catamaran.
05/01/202111/20/2025 Lorraine Escher

From Splendide to Miele: A Washing Machine Upgrade for Our St. Francis 50

10/18/201901/27/2026 Lorraine Escher

Project management in the boat yard: the importance of setting expectations early

01/30/201802/26/2026 Lorraine Escher

Leaving Trinidad for Grenada with Svetlana

12/23/201703/29/2026 Lorraine Escher

Taking stock of our boat spares

All At Sea Caribbean magazine cover, December 2017.
12/20/201710/10/2025 Lorraine Escher

Two articles Published in All at Sea Magazine, December 2017

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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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