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Sundog on the Intracoastal Waterway: A 1,821-Mile Voyage by Sailing Dinghy

This is the story of Sundog, a 19-foot Lightning class sailboat, on the inland waterway from the Chesapeake Bay to Key West Florida. The inland waterway, or Intracoastal Waterway, is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) protected waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas. Some sections of the waterway consist of natural inlets, saltwater rivers, bays, and sounds, while others are artificial canals. Maintained, improved, and extensively dredged where necessary by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, it provides a navigable route along its length without many of the hazards of travel on the open sea. Sundog, is a Lightning class sailboat built in 1958 of western red cedar, with a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and ballasted by a 130-pound retractable steel centerboard. The boat has a draft of about 5 feet, with the centerboard extended, and only 5 inches with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. I restored and modified the design to keep out water and increase space for dry storage, made a kickup rudder, a push pole, a set of oars, and added two sets of reef points to the mainsail resulting in a perfect boat for shallow water coastal exploring. I set sail from the northern end of Chesapeake Bay on the eastern shore of Maryland and finished the trip three months later in key West, Florida.