The inspiration for the Blog title comes from three sources:
The most immediate, The Sea Wife’s Handbook mentioned in the first post.
Sea Wyf was also coincidentally the name of a sailboat I crewed on a few times when I lived in Trinidad. Sunday races off Chaguaramas always ended with rum and cokes or Caribs and Stags (Trini beer brands).
Finally, the etymology—that’s the English teacher in me!—the etymology of Wyf is very like our Modern English wife which stems from the Middle English spelling wyf which stems from the Old English word for woman, wyf.
So this blog is written by a Sea Woman for other Sea Women…and anyone else who wants to read!
