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.























Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Sault Ste Marie

We are at Roberta Bondar Marina and the winds are blowing 20 knots.  We will not be leaving today, we may stay for the week and sort out our cruising permit issue.
We went out for dinner last night and then took advantage of half price movie night at the theatre.  There is a mall 5 minutes from the marina so I am sure I will be back there today. Oh the joys of civilization. There is a nice waterfront here with a boardwalk and a bicycle trail.  We went for a short ride between thunderstorms yesterday.  It is cloudy and rainy today as well.  Quite a bit cooler than we are used to as well. The marina has good laundry facilities and clean showers as well as complimentary internet. There are only 6 boats in this all transient marina and evidently the traffic has been down for the last 3 years they tell us.  Must be the economy.  Most of the boaters we met in the North Channel come from Michigan and Wisconsin but they are going to decrease if our dollar stays this strong.
There was music at the Roberta Bondar Pavilion yesterday but it didn't sound all that brilliant.  There is a farmers market, here at the waterfront, every Wednesday afternoon and Saturday so I will check that out this afternoon.
I have no pictures yet because it was raining yesterday, more to come tomorrow.
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