North Star on the Great Loop Journey: Aqua Yacht Harbor still

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, October 6, 2011

Aqua Yacht Harbor still

We are enjoying the weather, the camaraderie and the scenery at this great marina. They have a good ship's store where Jerry found the right attachment for his deck brush. He is cleaning the decks while I sit and supervise. There is a small exercise room with a nice view. I peaked in the door yesterday and broke into a sweat so I left. I will go there to read on a bicycle today.
We will borrow the courtesy car to go into town again today because Jerry broke his fishing pole while catching copious amounts of fish. Our friends in Irony caught two fair size bass and gave them to us. We are having fish for lunch today.
We may go out on Irony to see the falls on Pickwick lake, apparently it is a nice anchorage so we may go anchor there when we leave on Saturday.