Last year I had the wonderful experience sailing the Baltic Sea on a twin masted schooner, the Abel Tasman. I wrote about it in a 7-part blog series.

We all had such a good time we persuaded our host and my friend, Frank, into doing it again!

So. we’ll be setting sail in just a few weeks from Rostock, the former East German city in which I spent one semester studying before the fall of the Berlin Wall. I’ve blogged about my memories of that extraordinary experience as well.

We will embark on Sunday, Aug 11 and return to Rostock a week later on Aug 18.

As of this writing, the Abel Tasman set sail yesterday from Brest, France and is making her way up to the Netherlands, Denmark and eventually to Rostock.

We won’t know where we are sailing from day to day. On a typical morning, we will eat breakfast, and the captain will announce the forecasted winds and currents and show us a chart with possible destinations.

If you would like to track our progress, you may use this tool:
https://www.myshiptracking.com/?mmsi=245877000