Welcome
to The Log of the Second Sojourn, a Chronicle of the Erickson's July 2002
East Coast Sail Trip down the ICW to the Bahamas
The Plan:
Our plan is to sail
for one year from Early July 2002 to July 2003, going down the Intra-Coastal
Waterway to Miami and then across to the Bahamas. It's only a one day sail
to Bimini from Miami. All sailing plans are subject to the weather, so
we'll play each leg by ear.
Summer:
We launch on 7/3,
move out of the house and on to the boat on 7/8, and settle in for a few
days on the mooring in Salem Harbor. We'll have a car in Marbleheadfor
those days to run errands. Then cast off, sail to Maine for the summer,
getting to Mount Desert and maybe further.
September:
Then thru the Cape
Cod Canal on labor day, and sail southern New England to New York in September.
We haven't sailed there much considering it's in our back yard. Martha's
Vineyard, Nantucket, Falmouth, Block Island, Naragansett bay and long island
sound, ending September in New York City for a few days. Then to Sandy
Hook to wait for weather for the sail down the coast of Jersey to Cape
May.
October:
Then up Delaware
Bay to the C&D canal and to the Chesapeake for the month of October.
It is supposed to be very nice sailing in October. There we plan to visit
the Allen's in Annapolis and Ed's brother in Virginia. We want to visit
Baltimore, DC, and spend a bunch of time on the less settled east shore.
By the end of the month we plan to enter the ICW at Norfolk.
November:
Down the ICW past
North Carolina to South Carolina. We plan to visit Annie and Sarah in Charlestown
for a while. Then further to Savanah and to Jacksonville Florida. the ICW
is called "the ditch" as it is a narrow canal. We'll probably motor
almost he whole way from Norfolk to Miami.
December:
We'll sail the ICW,
visiting friends as we go: Amy and the kids, Rich and Mel near Orlando.
Then Greg and more cousins in Fort Lauterdale. South of Miami we'll wait
in Marathon for weather to head to Bimini.
January to April:
We sail the 600
miles of the Bahamas from north to south and back again.
May and June
2003:
We sail back up
the ICW seeing those things we missed on the way down, and back on our
mooring in Early July.