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.























Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Cool Ottawa

The weather sure has dropped. From a steamy humid 100 degrees to 66 degrees and windy. I am glad of the change since we are travelling on a river with locks.
Two looper boats joined us at the town dock last night.  We joined them for happy hour to trade tales of the journey. They breezed through the locks with minimal wait time. They are both carrying on this morning.
We stayed to get our propane refilled.  The BP station uptown offered to pick up our tanks, fill them and deliver them.  What great service! Some boaters from the yacht club came over to offer us a drive to the laundry mat but we declined.  We rode our bikes over and got some exercise in the process.  The town is clean and level not too many hills, I like that.  We found a great Chinese food restaurant with a $6.00 buffet for lunch so we ate there yesterday. Great value for the price. Tonight we will go to the show to see a sci-fi, Apollo 8, the Captain's favourite.
We managed to refill our water tanks here at the dock so we are ready to head out tomorrow.

Ottawa Complimentary Dock

Interesting building in Ottawa

This town has neat hats
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