Steve Blakely, an editor in Washington, DC, has sailed extensively along the Eastern seaboard and is an award-winning writer for Soundings magazine. His boat and most of his stories are on the Chesapeake Bay, but his writing has covered Bermuda, the Virgin Islands, the Chicago-Mackinac Race, and how to navigate New York City. You will find his blog at bearboat.wordpress.com. Blakely’s leg of the Greatest Loop voyage is the very first: from Annapolis to New York.