I started in upstate New York outfitting my Tanzer 7.5 pocket cruiser for my cruising adventure to southern shores in the spring.  In September I went down the Hudson River to New York Harbor, and then to Atlantic Highlands Municipal Marina in New Jersey.

I sailed offshore along the New Jersey coast and then had to go inside at Barnegat Inlet to wait out hurricane Gustav at Beach Haven Yacht Club Marina. I motored to Absecon Inlet before heading offshore again for Cape May Harbor.

Then I went through the Cape May Canal and sailed up Delaware Bay, where I saw "The Pride of Baltimore II" on the same tack before going through the Delaware & Chesapeake Canal and exploring Chesapeake Bay for a while before going down the ICW.

I rented a private slip near Oriental in North Carolina for the month of October and cruised the Neuse River, Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks. You'll find a write up of me on the Town Dock website when I visited Oriental for supplies. I also got to dodge around hurricane K as it kept crossing and re-crossing the area.

In November I went to Beaufort/Morehead City, NC and then started my run down the ICW through coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia stopping at Georgetown, Myrtle Beach, Charleston, Beaufort (SC), Brunswick, and finally St. Augustine in Florida the first week of December.

I'll spend the Winter cruising Florida, the Caribbean and the Gulf Coast before sailing along the ICW to Texas in the Spring.  I'll be there for a while before transporting my boat to The Sea of Cortez where I'll be home-ported at San Felipe, Baja California Norte, Mexico where I have my land at El Dorado Ranch Estates .