Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

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

January 2, 2024October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Diesel filling in Micronesia with video, and no police involvement

Picture of a catamaran
December 7, 2023October 9, 2025 Lorraine Escher

SV Aphrodite equipment list 2023

June 23, 2023October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Live tracker: sailing from Fiji to Vanuatu

June 12, 2023October 9, 2025 Lorraine Escher

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

May 22, 2023October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Team carrot: creatively eating contraband on the way to Fiji

October 29, 2018October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Life raft gear: what if you were not rescued, how long could you survive?

February 16, 2018October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

800 nautical miles from Grenada to Haiti

All At Sea Caribbean magazine cover, December 2017.
December 20, 2017October 10, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Two articles Published in All at Sea Magazine, December 2017

August 14, 2017October 4, 2025 Lorraine Escher

Crewing up to cross the Pacific: 90+days, family boat, not really open to swingers

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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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