Becoming a Sailor

Becoming a Sailor

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

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Category: Preparing for Cruising Life

Preparing for Cruising Life begins right from the start when we thought about buying a boat, and living afloat seemed like a dream. This category describes the moving parts we lashed together to pack up our house, learn to sail, shop for a bluewater catamaran, refit our St Francis 50, and launch our family circumnavigation adventure.

November 4, 2015November 4, 2015Lorraine Escher

Building a marine medical kit: Part 1

August 29, 2015August 29, 2015Lorraine Escher

Great Scots, 20 knots!

August 22, 2015August 22, 2015Lorraine Escher

Cracking open our life raft (with video)

August 21, 2015August 21, 2015Lorraine Escher

Test sailing SV Aphrodite

August 17, 2015August 17, 2015Lorraine Escher

Organizing our boat with skipper, Mark Burton

August 10, 2015August 10, 2015Lorraine Escher

Motoring in Tampa Bay

August 2, 2015August 2, 2015Lorraine Escher

Medications for a year and beyond

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015Lorraine Escher

Hotter than Hades here in Ottawa

July 22, 2015July 22, 2015Lorraine Escher

Liveaboard cruisers: those damn hippies

July 18, 2015July 18, 2015Lorraine Escher

Audio clip from our first CBC Radio interview

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