North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Last day at Green Turtle Bay Marina

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 26, 2011

Last day at Green Turtle Bay Marina

It has been an enjoyable break but we are anxious to resume our journey. We will take our time and anchor more in the next few weeks because we do not want to get to the Gulf of Mexico while the hurricane season is still active.
It rained all day yesterday with thunder and lightning so we just sat around reading and watching movies. We went out to dinner at Patti's again since the food is so good. We tried the 2" pork chop and it is to die for. We have enough for an other meal.
We may not have connectivity at anchor on Kentucky Lake so I may not be in a position to blog.