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.























Friday, September 23, 2011

Still at Green Turtle Bay

We continue to relax and enjoy the camaraderie at this lovely marina on Barkley Lake. There is a steady processing of Loopers coming and going.  It really is amazing how many of us there are.
Our Australian friend turned out to be a former hairdresser and gave me a nice haircut. I am really pleased and all it cost was a bottle of wine.
Today we have joined up with our South African friends to go into Paducah for supplies.  There is a BBQ cook off on the river so we will sample that. There are arts and crafts and some type of festivities as well.
Indoor heated pool at Green Turtle Bay Marina
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  1. NinichickSeptember 24, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    Not that you have any interest in quilting, Simone, but FYI, Paducah is the quilt capital of the world (US anyway) and there is a marvellous quilt museum there. The quilts will take your breath away. Go see if you have time.

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