Sanderling is just about ready to get underway. We only have to place our personal items aboard, do the food shopping, and get the house ready for hurricane season.

We’ll be departing either late Thursday afternoon (the 29th) or early on Friday (the 30th). Either way we’ll be in St. Augustine in plenty of time on Saturday to meet Charlie Matterson who is going to join ship’s company for a week on the way north.

We should be in the Chesapeake in about 14 days, and will continue north without sight-seeing, since we did that last summer and we’re trying to get as far northeast as we can in order to be on Cape Cod by the 21st of July. If we don’t get that far we’ll put Sanderling in a marina for a few days, and rent a car in order to be on the Cape that weekend. We’ll probably be going through Long Island on the way up and on the way back down.

After that we hope to cruise around Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay, then head north along the coast of New Hampshire and Maine, perhaps as far north as Eastport, but that will depend on the weather. Then we’ll start working our way back southwest, visiting more places along the way. By the end of September we hope to be in Solomons, Maryland, for TrawlerFest, and afterwards will depart once again for Florida.

We’ll be in contact by email and cell phone along the way. We’ll also try to keep our blog up to date as time permits, so you can check us out at: http://sanderlingcruise.blogspot.com/

For those of you who live along the way, we’ll contact you when we have a good idea of when we’ll be in your area and hopefully we’ll be able to get together.