You have a seaworth catamaran for your trips and some great destinations. I am already envious.
I doubt if my wife would have done a
circumnavigation if we didn't have a catamaran. Wives seem to like stable sailing platforms, and I am inclined to agree with them. I confess that I feel safer in my cat than when I sailed in my monohulls. I don't know if I was really safer, but I think our cat felt safer in my wife's mind, and that made a big difference in her willingness to sail
offshore.
Good luck on your sail back home to Ecuador.