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.























Monday, September 19, 2011

Green Turtle Bay Marina

We were anchored out on the Ohio River and then on Barkley Lake so we had no Internet access for the last two days.We are now at a beautiful resort and marina on Barkley Lake near Grand Rivers Kentucky.  This is a dry county so we borrowed the courtesy car and went out to Paducah 30 miles away to reprovision.
We just got the anchor down yesterday afternoon and just enough time for a swim in the lake before a thunderstorm came up.  It has been raining on and off ever since.  We may stay here for a week since we have been going for several days with nowhere to stop.
There are few places to shop and anchor along the next stretch of the Cumberland and Tennessee River until we get down to Demopolis. There is a long stretch after Demopolis as well so we will take advantage of this nice place to try and slow our progress.  There are many Loopers here so lots of interaction after 4 days on the hook.
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