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 25, 2011

Whitehall

We waited out the wind again today. We met a nice lady at Montague pier yesterday and she came to visit with her husband for the evening.  They took us to the Whitehall side of the pier in their antique Oldsmobile. The Lake was no where near settled down last night.
Today we went for a bike ride and some more shopping.  We spent the afternoon with Joyce yakking and drinking in the nice sunshine on the back deck of North Star. Thanks Joyce, for helping us while away the hours in Whitehall.
We drove out to the pier again with these new friends to have a look at a developing emergency  We did not find out what all the coast guard and Sheriff activity was about but we did see two tall ships go by.  The lake is still not settled down so who knows what will happen tomorrow.  We will stay here if the weather dictates that we stay put.
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