Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

Family of Six: 10 Years Circumnavigating Aboard SV Aphrodite

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Betty after accepting her university offer in Canada.
04/22/202605/08/2026 Lorraine Escher

Betty’s University Decision

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.

Rick Escher presenting his submission video on the MedSailingAdvisor application that he wrote as part of the MedGemma Impact Challenge 2026.
02/23/202605/08/2026 Lorraine Escher

Rick Writes an Offline Medical Support System App for Offshore Sailors

A side-by-side image of the Taipei 101 climbed by Alex Honnold in January 2026 and a land diving event on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu.
01/26/202604/22/2026 Lorraine Escher

The Spectacle Seekers: From Taipei 101 to Pentecost Island

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

Photo of Escher kids on SV Aphrodite on the Ultraleather saloon cushions after slightly less than two years of use.
11/23/202511/24/2025 Lorraine Escher

Succumbing to the Sales Pitch of Ultraleather on a Boat

Betty with her hand-drawn Montserrat flag. Later, she laminated the flag and we flew it on our boat,, SV APhrodite, with pride.
10/23/202501/27/2026 Lorraine Escher

Betty’s First Essay: The Soufriere Hills Volcano

Karen Escher, boat kid and young artist, works on illustrations for the Princess and the P's Boardgame.
10/09/202501/24/2026 Lorraine Escher

Karen Escher Draws: The Card Game She Illustrated on Our Boat at Age 10

Our niece, Jorja, from Calgary in front of the Bridge of the Americas, Panama.
09/26/202505/04/2026 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

Diver Michael and Lorraine watch the Mantus anchor retrieval from the bow.
09/18/202502/18/2026 Lorraine Escher

Part 3: Diving for a Lost Anchor: A Salty Ballad from Phuket

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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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