North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Sault Ste Marie Bondar Marina

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, August 11, 2011

Sault Ste Marie Bondar Marina

It was windy and cool yesterday but fortunately we were at a marina and had no plans to leave. We should be here until Monday. We have some preparations to make before we cross over to the US so this is a good place to take care of such things.
The marina is quite comfortable and the staff is most helpful. There is entertainment going on every day at the pavilion and I did miss the farmer's market yesterday so I will have to wait for Saturday to sample the local produce.
The museum steamship Norgoma is docked at this marina and for $6.00 one can go through it. You guessed it, we are not going to go aboard.
There is a casino within walking distance from the marina that may interest some folks, who knows if we get bored we might even go give a donation.
We will look into our cruising permit today so more on that tomorrow.