Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

More Than a Decade Afloat • Raising Sailors • Stories from SV Aphrodite

Menu Skip to content
  • About the Crew
  • About Our Boat
  • Family Dictionary: Life Afloat A to Z
  • Subscribe
  • Search

Tag: Sailing with kids

Our catamaran SV Aphrodite with the team from St Francis Marine in South Africa.
March 27, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

SV Aphrodite: The Family Catamaran with a History of Adventure

Poster from the 1992 movie, Captain Ron
March 24, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Captain Ron movie: finding humour when life imitates ‘art’

Revised planning spreadsheet, budgeting information is intentionally blacked out
March 24, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Planning and budgeting for sail boat refits

March 19, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Why living on a boat is different from living on land

March 18, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Betty, age 9: Why I’m excited to go sailing!!!!

Betty, age 9
March 18, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

All About Me, Betty!!!!!

Winterized sail boats, Ottawa River, March 2015
March 17, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Winterized sail boats on the frozen Ottawa River

March 10, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Boating in the 70s

March 3, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Dead poets reveal sailing experience

Aphrodite, St Francis 50 catamaran
February 28, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

We bought a boat

Posts navigation

← 1 … 13 14 15 16 →

Word of the Hour

Knitter► New word in …

Knitter

This Week in Years Past

  • 10 years ago this weekFrom the Vault: Cycling 1,000 miles Along the US Pacific Coast — with a Parrot
  • 10 years ago this weekBeans! Beans! Beans! Abandoning Meat in the Dominican Republic
  • 11 years ago this weekLogistics: strategies for getting from house to boat
  • 11 years ago this weekStress-free camping? Not here.

Worth Reading

Managing Food Allergies at Sea
Checklist for the Big Move

From the Archives

  • Boat Projects
  • Homeschooling Four Kids
  • Early Years of Cruising
Subscribe