Greetings!

Welcome to the blog of the Ericson 38, "Stardust," and her crew. The crew consists of myself, my wife, our two kids, two cats and our dog. So far, we've been aboard for a little over a week and in that time we've done a lot. We had to leave Cape Ann Marina before being really ready, since they had a bunch of boats coming in that same day. We powered through Massachusetts Bay at night with limited experience and managed to avoid running aground. Got to the Cape Cod Canal at just the right time of morning to have the current work with us. Hung out in Bristol Harbor in RI for a couple of days. Moved up to a mooring on the Warren River in Warren, RI. Had our dinghy stolen. Even got to tie up on the docks for a couple of days to wait out Hurricane Earl which managed to turn south and not even hit us with anything more than a little rain. We've had stronger winds in the last couple of days after the storm than we did the whole night of the storm. We've met some really great and helpful people, too. Mary and her boyfriend, who own "Valentine" are being great and helping us out by letting us borrow their dinghy until we replace the stolen one. Mike, who owns "Diva," has offered us help with little things that were causing issues on the boat. Another great guy, Don, helped us get tied up to the dock, and brought us the 2010 edition of Eldridge, which has the tide charts for major locations along he Eastern U.S., as well as tide information and a tide wheel we could use should we choose to head up the Erie Canal to Buffalo to get some of our things from storage there. We really are enjoying being on the Stardust. I'll try to update often and will get other members of the crew to post here as well from time to time. Our plans for the next few days are to get ourselves back out to the mooring, then maybe take the bus to Providence, RI to walk around a little bit. Also get new tags for the pets showing boat name and Skype phone number. Oh, and laundry would be good too...