Preparing for the trip

Captain Jerry has been making the final preparations to North Star, our 32 foot Cape Island down east trawler. We are anxious to leave our landlubber lives behind and begin our long awaited journey around the Great Circle. Join us as we travel 10, 000 kilometers: through the historic Trent Severn Waterway; the pristine waters of Georgian Bay; the North Channel of lake Huron; and hop from beach to beach on lake Michigan. We will visit Chicago and begin our trek along the rivers: Illinois; upper Mississippi; Ohio; Cumberland: Tennessee; Tenn-Tom Waterway and the Black Warrior. We will have transited through 68 locks at this juncture. We have chosen the inner route from Mobile Alabama to Tarpon Springs Florida and the shorter Ocheechobee Waterway to reach the East coast of Florida. We will skip over to the Bahamas to wait out the winter before heading North on the Atlantic Inter Coastal Waterway.
The 10 years of researching and planning are finally at an end and we invite you to come along on our adventure.























Thursday, July 28, 2011

Crocker Island

North Star at Crocker Island

Walking in this wonderful wilderness

Fish dinner on the rocks

View from the top..no cottages
Things keep getting better and better.  We left Louisa and headed west to the Benjamin Island under sunny skies and a perfectly flat sea. A welcome relief after two days of high winds. The Benjamin chain consist of four islands that have flat pink granite rocks for walking on.  The view is spectacular as you climb up the steep cliffs on Crocker Island (N46 04.541' and W082 12.885').  There are blueberries in abundance but they are small due to the hot dry season. We are tied stern to shore with a bow anchor as is the custom here.  There are at least 40 boats in these two well protected bays with the majority being sailboats.
This would have been just an other beautiful anchorage if it were not for the comradery of our fellow boaters.  A couple from Ottawa invited us to join them for a cook out on the rocks. They roasted an Arctic char and everyone brought something to add to the dinner. We were four couples and a fine time was had by all. Thank you John and Lise for organising the dinner.
Today we will sail two miles to the South Benjamin Island as we hear it is the prettiest of the group.
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