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, September 15, 2011

Hoppie's

The rain finally stopped at 5 last evening but it is quite cool. We had our Looper seminar inside the rather rustic club house. We received good information on currents and sharp bends where we must call tow Captains ahead to make sure the bend is clear of barge traffic.  The OHIO is apparently running a 4 knot current as is the Mississippi and since we will be going against the current in the Ohio, we better make sure we have the right amount of fuel to speed up to make it up that stretch.
There are fewer and fewer anchorages and marinas in this next stretch so we will be staying at a lock this evening.  It looks like we will have no choice but to move on as a pack since there are so few options. There are now 4 of us travelling together.
It is chilly but sunny today but there is no hurry to move on since we are only travelling 40 miles.

Hoppie's
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