Seattle to NYC?
OK, so a run like that *is* a long distance run down the west coast (which, IIRC, means that you've got the current on your side, don't you?) but then I'm assuming you're gonna look at a canal crossing.
I'm a neophyte here; I've got "book" knowledge FWIW but my actual sailing is pretty limited (even with a nice E25) and perhaps further limited by my "crew"; this trip of his sounds, at first gasp, to be a simple "coastal cruise" but a lot of the shoreline he's hoping to get past seems, from the maps, photos, etc, to be brutal in all but some minimal spots. (All right, so Florida's west coast is a little bit less stressful... when you run aground it's usually mud or sand. I've gotten pretty good at running aground and then managing to get back off... but I'd hate to face a rocky bottom.)
Needless to say... a story (backed up with a photo diary) would be nice. (My son is a photo lab manager and one fellow brought in a bunch of film rolls for processing; a delivery of a sailboat from Tampa/StPete to the Cheseapeake. He tells me he oooohed and aaaahed for the captain who did the delivery.)