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.























Sunday, July 17, 2011

Pointe au Baril

Well we travelled 38 miles yesterday to Pointe au Baril.  The scenery is fabulous again lots of rock and less trees than around Parry Sound.  The water was nice and calm which is a good thing because we were on stretches of open water. The channel goes around some hair pin curves where you really would not want to meet an another boat. I even pulled in the dinghy on one of them to be sure it would not get caught on the marker. Most of the traffic is cottagers in small boats,I guess the larger cruisers are on the open water.

We are at an other beautiful and peaceful anchor just after Pointe au Baril at Leith Island (N45 35.234' and W080 30.995'). Today we will try to reach Byng Inlet which is an other 30 odd miles.
Pointe au Baril Lighthouse

Pointe au Baril

Pretty narrow but nice and calm

Hair Pin turns in the small craft route
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  2. NinichickJuly 18, 2011 at 12:18 PM

    Where are you on the map...give me a landmark. Lovely pics.

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