Becoming a Sailor

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Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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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

Margaret from Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, sitting outdoors with Karen and a local village boy under a large tree
February 4, 2024October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

What We Ate Sailing Through Micronesia and Melanesia: Markets, Farming, and Fishing

Shows weevil larvae in pasta
January 13, 2024October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Weeviling: managing weevils on a sailboat in Micronesia

Karen and Henry inspect the octopus
January 5, 2024October 8, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Reef fish, octopus and sea cucumbers for the dinner plate (Chuuk, Micronesia)

January 2, 2024October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Diesel filling in Micronesia with video, and no police involvement

Paul in a hospital bed in Kavieng, Papua New Guinea, receiving oxygen therapy
December 13, 2023October 5, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Shallow water blackout while freediving: what happened to our son, Paul

October 26, 2023October 15, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Betty, age 17, joins a medical mission in Papua New Guinea

Glasses sit atop other World War II artifacts including a glass syringe.
September 18, 2023October 18, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Visiting the Peter Joseph Museum in the Solomon Islands: A Backyard Full of World War II History

September 16, 2023October 15, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Family ER at Sea: A fish hook to the face in Munda, Solomon Islands

August 23, 2023October 6, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Mugged in Honiara: Travel Safety in the Solomon Islands

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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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