Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

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  • Our story in six chapters, in the order we sailed it.

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    Before We Moved Aboard

    • From House to Sailboat: How a Road Trip Changed Us
    • Buying Our St Francis 50 Catamaran
    • Learning to Sail From Scratch
    • Our Family Camping Gap Month
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    • This chapter on the map →

    Florida and the Bahamas

    • Living on a Sailboat With Kids: Freedom or Confinement?
    • Crossing the Gulf Stream
    • Off the Beaten Track Bahamas
    • Bahamas Long Reads: Exumas Stories
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    • This chapter on the map →

    The Caribbean

    • Luperón Long Reads: Boat Kids Go Local
    • Dominica Travel: If Outside Magazine Visited
    • Rough Offshore Sailing in a Gale
    • Long Reads Grenada
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    • This chapter on the map →

    Panama and the Pacific

    • Crossing the Panama Canal
    • Shellback Ceremony at the Equator
    • Long Reads: Galápagos
    • Sleep Deprivation at Sea
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    • This chapter on the map →

    Melanesia

    • Heavy Weather Sailing: NZ to Fiji
    • Sevusevu Ceremony in Fiji
    • Land Diving on Pentecost Island
    • Shallow Water Blackout
    • Browse all 18 posts →
    • This chapter on the map →

    Micronesia to Southeast Asia

    • Lagoon to Table: Subsistence Fishing
    • Losing an Anchor in Thailand
    • 322 Days in a Malaysian Boatyard
    • Bangla Road Phuket
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    • This chapter on the map →

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    • Sailing With Kids & Homeschooling
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    • Writing & Creative
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Our catamaran SV Aphrodite with the team from St Francis Marine in South Africa.
March 27, 2015September 5, 2026Lorraine Escher

SV Aphrodite: The Family Catamaran with a History of Adventure

Hiring a skipper comparison: Poster from the 1992 movie, Captain Ron
March 24, 2015August 13, 2026Lorraine Escher

Hiring a Skipper: Learning to Sail Like Captain Ron

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

Boat Kid Perspective: Betty from SV Aphrodite before we moved aboard and began our circumnavigation.
March 18, 2015August 16, 2026Lorraine Escher

Boat Kid Perspective: Why a 9-Year-Old Wanted to Sail

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

All About Me, Betty!!!!!

Winterized sailboats, Ottawa River, March 2015
March 17, 2015August 26, 2026Lorraine Escher

Winterized Sailboats on the Frozen Ottawa River

Boating in the 1970s
March 10, 2015August 15, 2026Lorraine Escher

Boating in the 1970s: Navigation Was Simpler

Sailing Poetry: Donne and Coleridge
March 3, 2015August 25, 2026Lorraine Escher

Sailing Poetry: Did John Donne Know More Than Coleridge?

Buying a St Francis 50 catamaran: Aphrodite, St Francis 50 catamaran
February 28, 2015September 16, 2026Lorraine Escher

Buying Our St Francis 50 Catamaran, SV Aphrodite

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