Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Tag: Pacific Ocean sailing

August 23, 2023January 29, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Mugged in Honiara: Travel Safety in the Solomon Islands

June 23, 2023October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Live tracker: sailing from Fiji to Vanuatu

June 12, 2023January 25, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Making Sense of Malaria: Why Chemoprophylaxis Doesn’t Prevent Infection — It Only Weakens the Symptoms

June 8, 2023October 11, 2025 Lorraine Escher

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

May 31, 2023February 5, 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 20, 2023February 12, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Losing a rudder 500 miles from Fiji

May 19, 2023January 25, 2026 Lorraine Escher

Sailing at night – New Zealand to Fiji

Spectacular sky underway on SV Aphrodite, a St. Francis 50 catamaran, during Our Pacific Crossing from Panama to New Zealand.
June 18, 2022October 30, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Four Methods We Tried to Manage Sleep Deprivation During Our Pacific Crossing (Galapagos to French Polynesia)

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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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