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, September 14, 2011

Hoppie's

Casino in Alton

Arch in St.Louis
We closed the day with a lightning show last night after spending a relaxing hot day at the pool. The thunderstorms went on all night.  It is still raining heavily so we all got soaked in the two locks and while tying up the boat along barges that serve as the marina at Hoppie's.  It is very rustic here but everyone stops here for the seminar on navigating the rest of the rivers.  The seminar is given on the dock so I guess we will have to forgo this event if it does not soon stop raining.
We passed St.Louis in the rain so our pictures are not as good as they could have been.  There is a lot of barge traffic but the river is wide so passing is much easier than on the Illinois.  We did not have to wait at the locks which was good since it is pouring rain.
We will stay the night and move on tomorrow.
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